Neutralizer – Noising

Neutralizer

NEUTRALIZER, noun That which neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body. The base of a salt is its neutralizer

Neutralizing

NEUTRALIZING, participle present tense Destroying or rendering inert the peculiar properties of a substance; reducing to indifference or inactivity.

Neutrally

NEUTRALLY, adverb Without taking part with either side; indifferently.

Never

NEVER, adverb

1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time. It refers to the past or the future. This man was never at Calcutta; he will never be there.

2. It has a particular use in the following sentences.

Ask me never so much dower and gift. Genesis 34:12.

Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Psalms 58:5.

A fear of battery-though never so well grounded, is no duress.

This is a genuine English use of never found in our Saxon authors, and it ought to be retained. Ask me so much dower as never was done; that is, dower to any extent. The practice of using ever in such phrases, is corrupt. It not only destroys the force but the propriety of the phrase.

3. In no degree; not.

Whoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another mans head and yet see never the worse.

4. It is used for not. He answered him never a word; that is, not ever. This use is not common.

5. It is much used in composition; as in never-ending, never-failing, never-dying, never-ceasing, never-fading; but in all such compounds, never retains its true meaning.

Nevertheless

NEVERTHELESS, adverb Not the less; notwithstanding; that is, in opposition to any thing, or without regarding it. It rained, nevertheless we proceeded on our journey; we did not the less proceed on our journey; we proceeded in opposition to the rain, without regarding it, or without being prevented.

New

NEW, adjective

1. Lately made, invented, produced or come into being; that has existed a short time only; recent in origin; novel; opposed to old, and used of things; as a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion; a new theory; the new chimistry; a new discovery.

2. Lately introduced to our knowledge; not before known; recently discovered; as a new metal; a new species of animals or plants found in foreign countries; the new continent.

3. Modern; not ancient.

4. Recently produced by change; as a new life.

Put on the new man. Ephesians 4:24.

5. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.

Heretics and such as instill their poison into new minds.

NEW to the plough, unpracticed in the trace.

6. Renovated; repaired so as to recover the first state.

Men, after long emaciating diets, wax plump, fat and almost new

7. Fresh after any event.

NEW from her sickness to that northern air.

8. Not of ancient extraction or a family of ancient distinction.

By superior capacity and extensive knowledge, a new man often mounts to favor.

9. Not before used; strange; unknown.

They shall speak with new tongues. Mark 16:17.

10. Recently commenced; as the new year.

11. Having passed the change or conjunction with the sun; as the new moon.

12. Not cleared and cultivated, or lately cleared; as new land.

13. That has lately appeared for the first time; as a new star.

NEW is much used in composition to qualify other words, and always bears its true sense of late, recent, novel, fresh; as in new-born, new-made, new-grown, new-formed, new-found. In this use, new may be considered as adverbial, or as a part of the compound.

NEW, verb transitive To make new [Not used.]

New-Fangled

NEW-FANGLED, adjective [new and fangle.] New made; formed with the affectation of novelty; in contempt.

NEW-FANGLED devices.

New-Fangledness

NEW-FANGLEDNESS, noun Vain or affected fashion or form.

New-Fashioned

NEW-FASHIONED, adjective Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion.

New-Model

NEW-MODEL, verb transitive To give a new form to.

New-Modeled

NEW-MODELED, adjective Formed after a new model.

New-Modeling

NEW-MODELING, participle present tense Giving a new form to.

Newel

NEWEL, noun In architecture, the upright post about which are formed winding stairs, or a cylinder of stone formed by the end of the steps of the winding stairs.

2. Novelty. [Not used.]

Newing

NEWING, noun Yeast or barm.

Newish

NEWISH, adjective Somewhat new; nearly new.

Newly

NEWLY, adverb

1. Lately; freshly; recently.

He rubbd it oer with newly gathered mint.

2. With a new form, different from the former.

And the refined mind doth newly fashion Into a fairer form.

3. In a manner not existing before.

Newness

NEWNESS, noun

1. Lateness of origin; recentness; state of being lately invented or produced; as the newness of a dress; the newness of a system.

2. Novelty; the state of being first known or introduced. The newness of the scene was very gratifying.

3. Innovation; recent change.

And happy newness that intends old right.

4. Want of practice or familiarity.

His newness shamed most of the others long exercise.

5. Different state or qualities introduced by change or regeneration.

Even so we also should walk in newness of life. Romans 6:4.

News

NEWS, noun [ From new; This word has a plural form, but is almost always united with a verb in the singular.]

1. Recent account; fresh information of something that has lately taken place at a distance, or of something before unknown; tidings. We have news from Constantinople. news has just arrived. This news is favorable.

Evil news rides fast, while good news baits.

It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich.

2. A newspaper.

News-Monger

NEWS-MONGER, noun One that deals in news; one who employs much time in hearing and telling news.

Newspaper

NEWSPAPER, noun A sheet of paper printed and distributed for conveying news; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public documents and the like.

Newt

NEWT, noun A small lizard; an eft.

Newtonian

NEWTONIAN, adjective Pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or formed or discovered by him; as the newtonian philosophy or system.

NEWTONIAN, noun A follower of Newton in philosophy.

NEW-YEARS GIFT, noun A present made on the first day of the year.

Next

NEXT, adjective

1. Nearest in place; that has no object intervening between it and some other; immediately preceding, or preceding in order. We say, the next person before or after another.

Her princely guest was next her side, in order sat the rest.

2. Nearest in time; as the next day or hour; the next day before or after Easter.

3. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right or relation; as, one man is next to another in excellence; one is next in kindred; one is next in rank or dignity. Assign the property to nim who has the next claim.

NEXT, adverb At the time or turn nearest or immediately succeeding. It is not material who follows next

Nias

NIAS, for an eyas, a young hawk.

Nib

NIB, noun

1. The bill or beak of a fowl.

2. The point of any thing, particularly of a pen.

Nibbed

NIBBED, adjective Having a nib or point.

Nibble

NIBBLE, verb transitive [from nib.]

1. To bite by little at a time; to eat slowly or in small bits. So sheep are said to nibble the grass.

2. To bite, as a fish does the bait; to carp at; just to catch by biting.

NIBBLE, verb intransitive

1. To bite at; as, fishes nibble at the bait.

2. To carp at; to find fault; to censure little faults.

Instead of returning a full answer to my book, he manifestly nibbles at a single passage.

NIBBLE, noun A little bite, or seizing to bite.

Nibbler

NIBBLER, noun One that bites a little at a time; a carper.

Nibbling

NIBBLING, participle present tense Biting in small bits; carping.

Nibiliary

NIBIL'IARY, noun [See Noble.] A history of noble families.

Nice

NICE, adjective [G. To eat dainties or sweetmeats]

1. Properly, soft; whence, delicate; tender; dainty; sweet or very pleasant to the taste; as a nice bit; nice food.

2. Delicate; fine; applied to texture, composition or color; as cloth of a nice texture; nice tints of color.

3. Accurate; exact; precise; as nice proportions; nice symmetry; nice workmanship; nice rules.

4. Requiring scrupulous exactness; as a nice point.

5. Perceiving the smallest difference; distinguishing accurately and minutely by perception; as a person of nice taste; hence,

6. Perceiving accurately the smallest faults, errors or irregularities; distinguishing and judging with exactness; as a nice judge of a subject; nice discernment.

Our author happy in a judge so nice

7. Over scrupulous or exact.

Curious, not knowing; not exact, but nice

8. Delicate; scrupulously and minutely cautious.

The letter was not nice but full of charge of dear import.

Dear love, continue nice and chaste.

9. Fastidious; squeamish.

And to taste, think not I shall be nice

10. Delicate; easily injured.

How nice the reputation of the maid!

11. Refined; as nice and subtle happiness.

12. Having lucky hits. [Not used.]

13. Weak; foolish; effeminate.

14. Trivial; unimportant.

To make nice to be scrupulous.

Nicely

NICELY, adverb

1. With delicate perception; as, to be nicely sensible.

2. Accurately; exactly; with exact order or proportion; as the parts of a machine or building nicely adjusted; a shape nicely proportioned; a dress nicely fitted tot he body; the ingredients of a medicine nicely proportioned and mixed.

3. In colloquial language, well; cleverly; dextrously; handsomely; in the best manner; as, a feat is nicely done.

Nicene

NICENE, adjective Pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor. The nicene creed, was a summary of Christian faith composed by the council of Nice against Arianism, adjective D. 325, altered and confirmed by the council of Constantinople, adjective D. 381.

Niceness

NICENESS, noun

1. Delicacy of perception; the quality of perceiving small differences; as niceness of taste.

2. Extreme delicacy; excess of scrupulousness or exactness.

Unlike the niceness of our modern dames.

3. Accuracy; minute exactness; as niceness of work; niceness of texture or proportion.

Wheres now the labored niceness in thy dress?

Nicety

NICETY, noun

1. Niceness; delicacy of perception.

2. Excess of delicacy; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

So love doth lothe disdainful nicety

3. Minute difference; as the niceties of words.

4. Minuteness of observation or discrimination; precision. The connoisseur judges of the beauties of a painting with great nicety

5. Delicate management; exactness in treatment.

Love such nicety requires. One blast will put out all his fires.

6. Niceties, in the plural, delicacies for food; dainties.

Nich

NICH, noun A cavity, hollow, or recess within the thickness of a wall, for a statue or bust.

Niche

NICHE, noun A cavity, hollow, or recess within the thickness of a wall, for a statue or bust.

Nick

NICK, noun In the northern mythology, an evil spirit of the saters; hence the modern vulgar phrase, Old nick the evil one.

NICK, noun [G. The nape; a continual nodding. The word seems to signify a point, from shooting forward.]

1. The exact point of time required by necessity or convenience; the critical time.

2. [G. knick, a flaw.] A notch or score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

3. A winning throw.

NICK, verb transitive

1. To hit; to touch luckily; to perform by a slight artifice used at the lucky time.

The just reason of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.

2. To cut in nicks or notches. [See Notch]

3. To suit, as lattices cut in nicks.

4. To defeat or cozen, as at dice; to disappoint by some trick or unexpected turn.

NICK, verb transitive [G. knicken, to flaw.] To notch or make an incision in a horses tail, to make him carry it higher.

Nickar-Tree

NICKAR-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Guilandina, which grows in the western parts of the United States, and bears a nut of the size of a pignut.

Nickel

NICKEL, noun A metal of a white or reddish white color, of great hardness, very difficult to be purified, always magnetic, and when perfectly pure, malleable. It is generally obtained from its sulphuret.

Nickelic

NICKELIC, adjective The nickelic acid is a saturated combination of nickel and oxygen.

Nicker

NICKER, noun One who watches for opportunities to pilfer or practice knavery.

Nickname

NICKNAME, noun [G. To banter. Signifies to surname, to call by a name of reproach.] A name given in contempt, derision or reproach; an opprobrious appellation.

NICKNAME, verb transitive To give a name of reproach; to call by an opprobrious appellation.

You nickname virtue vice.

Nicknamed

NICKNAMED, participle passive Named in derision.

Nicknaming

NICKNAMING, participle present tense Calling by a name in contempt or derision.

Nicolaitan

NICOLAITAN, noun One of a sect in the ancient Christian church, so named from Nicolas, a deacon of the church of Jerusalem. They held that all married women should be common to prevent jealousy. They are not charged with erroneous opinions respecting God, but with licentious practices. Revelations 2.

Nicotian

NICOTIAN, adjective Pertaining to or denoting tobacco; and as a noun, tobacco; so called from Nicot, who first introduced it into France, adjective D. 1560.

Nicotin

NICOTIN, noun The peculiar principle in the leaves of tobacco; a colorless substance of an acrid taste. It is precipitated from its solution by the tincture of nutgalls.

Nictate

NICTATE, verb intransitive [Latin to wink.] To wink.

Nictating

NICTATING, participle present tense or adjective Winking. The nictitating membrane is a thin membrane that covers and protects the eyes of some animals, without entirely obstructing the sight.

Nictation

NICTATION, noun The act of winking.

Nictitating

NICTITATING, participle present tense or adjective Winking. The nictitating membrane is a thin membrane that covers and protects the eyes of some animals, without entirely obstructing the sight.

Nide

NIDE, noun [Latin A nest.] A brood; as a nide of pheasants.

Nidget

NIDGET, noun A dastard. [Not in use.]

Nidificate

NIDIFICATE, verb intransitive [Latin A nest.] To make a nest.

Nidification

NIDIFICATION, noun The act or operation of building a nest, and the hatching and feeding of young in the nest.

Niding

NIDING, noun A despicable coward; a dastard.

Nidor

NIDOR, noun Scent, savor.

Nidorosity

NIDOROSITY, noun Eructation with the taste of undigested roast meat.

Nidorous

NIDOROUS, adjective Resembling the smell or taste of roasted meat.

Nidulant

NIDULANT, adjective [Latin Nest.] In botany, nestling; lying loose in pulp or cotton, within a berry or pericarp.

Nidulation

NIDULATION, noun The time of remaining in the nest; as of a bird.

Nidus

NIDUS, noun [Latin] A nest; a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.

Niece

NIECE, noun The daughter of a brother or sister.

Nifle

NIFLE, noun A trifle.

Niggard

NIGGARD, noun [straight, narrow; to haggle, to be sordidly parsimonious; exhibiting analogies similar to those of wretch, wreck and haggle.] A miser; a person meanly close and covetous; a sordid wretch who saves every cent, or spends grudgingly.

Serve him as a grudging master, As a penurious niggard of his wealth.

Be niggards of advice on no pretense.

NIGGARD, adjective

1. Miserly; meanly covetous; sordidly parsimonious.

2. Sparing; wary.

Most free of question , but to our demands niggard in his reply.

NIGGARD, verb transitive To stint; to supply sparingly. [Little used.]

Niggardise

NIGGARDISE, noun Niggardliness. [Not in use.]

Niggardish

NIGGARDISH, adjective Somewhat covetous or niggardly.

Niggardliness

NIGGARDLINESS, noun Mean covetousness; sordid parsimony; extreme avarice manifested in sparing expense.

NIGGARDLINESS is not good husbandry.

Niggardly

NIGGARDLY, adjective

1. Meanly covetous or avaricious; sordidly parsimonious; extremely sparing of expense.

Where the owner of the house will be bountiful, it is not for the steward to be niggardly

2. Sparing; wary; cautiously avoiding profusion.

NIGGARDLY, adverb Sparingly; with cautious parsimony.

Niggardness

NIGGARDNESS, noun Niggardliness. [Not used.]

Niggardy

NIGGARDY, noun Niggardliness. [Not used.]

Niggle

NIGGLE, verb transitive and I. To mock; to trifle with. [Not in use.]

Nigh

NIGH, adjective [G. A preposition signifying to, on or after, that is, approaching, pressing on, making towards; strait, narrow.]

1. Near; not distant or remote in place or time.

The loud tumult shows the battle nigh

When the fig-tree putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh

2. Closely allied by blood; as a nigh kinsman.

3. Easy to be obtained or learnt; of easy access.

The word is very nigh unto thee. Deuteronomy 30:14.

4. Ready to support, to forgive, or to aid and defend.

The Lord is nigh unto them who are of a broken heart. Psalms 34:18.

5. Close in fellowship; intimate in relation.

Ye are made nigh by the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:13.

6. Near in progress or condition. Hebrews 6:8.

NIGH, adverb ni.

1. Near; at a small distance in place or time, or in the course of events.

He was sick, nigh to death. Philippians 2:27.

2. Near to a place.

He drew nigh

3. Almost; near. He was nigh dead.

NIGH is never a preposition. In the phrase, nigh this recess, with terror they survey, there is an ellipsis of to. They, nigh to this recess, survey, etc.

NIGH, verb intransitive ni. To approach; to advance or draw near. [Not used.]

Nighly

NIGHLY, adverb Nearly; within a little.

A cube and a sphere nighly of the same bigness. [Not used.]

Nighness

NIGHNESS, noun Nearness; proximity in place, time or degree.

Night

NIGHT, noun [The sense may be dark, black, or it may be the decline of the day, from declining, departing.]

1. That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise.

2. The time after the close of life; death. John 9:4.

She closed her eyes in everlasting night

3. A state of ignorance; intellectual and moral darkness; heathenish ignorance. Romans 13:12.

4. Adversity; a state of affliction and distress. Isaiah 21:4.

5. Obscurity; a state of concealment from the eye or the mind; unintelligibleness.

Nature and natures works lay hid in night

In the night suddenly; unexpectedly. Luke 12:20.

To-night, in this night To-night the moon will be eclipsed.

Night-Angling

NIGHT-ANGLING, noun The angling for or catching fish in the night.

Night-Bird

NIGHT-BIRD, noun A bird that flies only in the night.

Night-Born

NIGHT-BORN, adjective Produced in darkness.

Night-Brawler

NIGHT-BRAWLER, noun One who excites brawls or makes a tumult at night.

Night-Cap

NIGHT-CAP, noun A cap worn in bed or in undress.

Night-Crow

NIGHT-CROW, noun A fowl that cries in the night.

Night-Dew

NIGHT-DEW, noun The dew formed in the night.

Night-Dog

NIGHT-DOG, noun A dog that hunts in the night; used by deer-stealers.

Night-Dress

NIGHT-DRESS, noun A dress worn at night.

Night-Faring

NIGHT-FARING, adjective Traveling in the night.

Night-Fire

NIGHT-FIRE, noun

1. Ignis fatuus; Will with a wisp; Jack with a lantern.

2. Fire burning in the night.

Night-Fly

NIGHT-FLY, noun An insect that flies in the night.

Night-Founded

NIGHT-FOUNDED, adjective Lost or distressed in the night.

Night-Gown

NIGHT-GOWN, noun A loose gown used for undress.

Night-Hag

NIGHT-HAG, noun A witch supposed to wander in the night.

Night-Man

NIGHT-MAN, noun One who removes filth from cities in the night.

Night-Piece

NIGHT-PIECE, noun A piece of painting so colored as to be supposed seen by candle-light.

Night-Rail

NIGHT-RAIL, noun A loose robe or garment worn over the dress at night. [Not used.]

Night-Raven

NIGHT-RAVEN, noun A fowl of ill omen that cries in the night.

Night-Rest

NIGHT-REST, noun Rest or repose at night.

Night-Robber

NIGHT-ROBBER, noun One that robs or steals in the night.

Night-Rule

NIGHT-RULE, noun A tumult or frolick in the night.

Night-Shining

NIGHT-SHINING, adjective Shining in the night; luminous in darkness.

Night-Shriek

NIGHT-SHRIEK, noun A shriek or outcry in the night.

Night-Spell

NIGHT-SPELL, noun A charm against accidents at night.

Night-Tripping

NIGHT-TRIPPING, adjective Tripping about in the night; as a night-tripping fairy.

Night-Vision

NIGHT-VISION, noun A vision at night. Daniel 2:1.

Night-Waking

NIGHT-WAKING, adjective Watching in the night.

Night-Walk

NIGHT-WALK, noun A walk in the evening or night.

Night-Walker

NIGHT-WALKER, noun

1. One that walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.

2. One that roves about in the night for evil purposes. Night-walkers are punishable by law.

Night-Walking

NIGHT-WALKING, adjective Roving in the night.

NIGHT-WALKING, noun A roving in the streets at night with evil designs.

Night-Wanderer

NIGHT-WANDERER, noun One roving at night.

Night-Wandering

NIGHT-WANDERING, adjective Wandering in the night.

Night-Warbling

NIGHT-WARBLING, adjective Warbling or singing in the night.

Night-Watch

NIGHT-WATCH, noun

1. A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of the watch. Night-watches, however, in the Psalms, seems to mean the night or time of sleep in general.

2. A watch or guard in the night.

Night-Watcher

NIGHT-WATCHER, noun One that watches in the night with evil designs.

Night-Witch

NIGHT-WITCH, noun A night hag; a witch that appears in the night.

Nighted

NIGHTED, adjective Darkened; clouded; black. [Little used.]

Nightfall

NIGHTFALL, noun The close of the day; evening.

Nightingale

NIGHTINGALE, noun

1. A small bird that sings at night, of the genus Motacilla; Philomela or Philomel.

2. A word of endearment.

Nightish

NIGHTISH, adjective Pertaining to night, or attached to the night.

Nightly

NIGHTLY, adjective

1. Done by night; happening in the night, or appearing in the night; as nightly sports; nightly dews.

2. Done every night. The watch goes his nightly round.

NIGHTLY, adverb

1. By night.

Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, nightly I visit.

2. Every night.

Nightmar

NIGHTMAR, noun Incubus; a sensation in sleep resembling the pressure of a weight on the breast or about the praecordia. It is usually the effect of indigestion or of a loaded stomach.

Nightshade

NIGHTSHADE, noun A plant of the genus Solanum. The deadly nightshade is of the genus Atropa; the American nightshade of the genus Phytolacea; the bastard nightshade of the genus Rivina; the enchanter's nightshade of the genus Circaea; the Malabar nightshade of the genus Basella; and the three-leaved nightshade of the genus Trillium.

Nightward

NIGHTWARD, adjective Approaching towards night.

Nigrescent

NIGRES'CENT, adjective [Latin to grow black.] Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.

Nigrin

NIG'RIN, noun An ore of titanium, found in black grains or rolled pieces.

Nigrine

NIG'RINE, noun An ore of titanium, found in black grains or rolled pieces.

Nihility

NIHIL'ITY, noun Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

Nill

NILL, verb transitive Not to will; to refuse; to reject.

NILL, verb intransitive To be unwilling.

NILL, noun The shining sparks of brass in trying and melting the ore.

Nilometer

NILOM'ETER, noun An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during the flood.

Nim

NIM, verb transitive To take; to steal; to filch.

Nimble

NIM'BLE, adjective Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. It is applied chiefly to motions of the feet and hands, sometimes to other things; as a nimble boy; the nimble-footed deer.

Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails.

Nimble-Footed

NIM'BLE-FOOTED, adjective Running with speed; light of foot.

Nimble-Witted

NIM'BLE-WITTED, adjective Quick; ready to speak.

Nimbleness

NIM'BLENESS, noun Lightness and agility in motion; quickness; celerity; speed; swiftness. It implies lightness and springiness.

The stag thought it better to trust to the nimbleness of his feet.

Ovid ranged over Parnassus with great nimbleness and agility.

Nimbless

NIM'BLESS, noun Nimbleness.

Nimbly

NIM'BLY, adverb With agility; with light, quick motion.

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber.

Nimiety

NIM'IETY, noun The state of being too much. [Not in use.]

Nimmer

NIM'MER, noun A thief. [Not in use.]

Nincompoop

NIN'COMPOOP, noun [said to be a corruption of Latin non compos, not of sound mind.] A fool; a blockhead; a trifling dotard. [A low word.]

Nine

NINE, adjective Denoting the number composed of eight and one; as nine men; nine days.

NINE, noun The number composed of eight and one; or the number less by a unit than ten; three times three.

Nine-Fold

NI'NE-FOLD, adjective Nine times repeated.

Nine-Holes

NI'NE-HOLES, n A game in which holes are made in the ground, into which a pellet is to be bowled.

Nine-Pence

NI'NE-PENCE, noun A silver coin of the value of nine pence.

Nine-Pins

NI'NE-PINS, noun A play with nine pins or sharpened pieces of wood set on end, at which a bowl is rolled for throwing them down. We say, to play at nine-pins or a game at nine-pins

Nine-Score

NI'NE-SCORE, noun The number of nine times twenty.

Nineteen

NI'NETEEN, adjective Noting the number of nine and ten united; as nineteen years.

Nineteenth

NI'NETEENTH, adjective The ordinal of nineteen; designating nineteen.

Ninetieth

NI'NETIETH, adjective The ordinal of ninety.

Ninety

NI'NETY, adjective Nine times ten; as ninety years.

Ninny

NIN'NY, noun A fool; a simpleton.

Ninth

NINTH, adjective The ordinal of nine; designating the number nine, the next preceding ten; as the ninth day or month.

NINTH, noun In music, an interval containing an octave and a tone.

Nip

NIP, verb transitive [G. a nipping tool; to nip to cut off, to pinch.]

1. To cut, bite or pinch off the end or nib, or to pinch off with the ends of the fingers. The word is used in both senses; the former is probably the true sense. Hence,

2. To cut off the end of any thing; to clip, as with a knife or scissors; as, to nip off a shoot or twig.

3. To blast; to kill or destroy the end of any thing; hence, to kill; as, the frost has nipped the corn; the leaves are nipped; the plant was nipped int he bud. Hence, to nip in the bud, is to kill or destroy in infancy or youth, or in the first stage of growth.

4. To pinch, bite or affect the extremities of any thing; as a nipping frost; hence, to pinch or bite in general; to check growth.

5. To check circulation.

When blood is nipt. [Unusual.]

6. To bite; to vex.

And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip

7. To satirize keenly; to taunt sarcastically.

NIP, noun

1. A pinch with the nails or teeth.

2. A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

3. A blast; a killing of the ends of plants; destruction by frost.

4. A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

5. A sip or small draught; as a nip of toddy.

Nipped

NIP'PED, participle passive Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted.

Nipper

NIP'PER, noun

1. A satirist. [Not used.]

2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four.

Nippers

NIP'PERS, noun Small pinchers.

Nipping

NIP'PING, participle present tense Pinching; pinching off; biting off the end; cropping; clipping; blasting; killing.

Nippingly

NIP'PINGLY, adverb With bitter sarcasm.

Nipple

NIP'PLE, noun

1. A teat; a dug; the spungy protuberance by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females.

2. The orifice at which any animal liquor is separated.

Nipplewort

NIP'PLEWORT, noun A plant of the genus Lapsana.

Nipt

NIPT, participle passive Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted.

Nisan

NIS'AN, noun A month of the Jewish calendar, the first month of the sacred year and seventh of the civil year, answering nearly to our March. It was originally called Abibi, but began to be called nisan after the captivity.

Nisiprius

NISIPRIUS, noun In law, a writ which lies in cases where the jury being impaneled and returned before the justices of the bench, one of the parties requests to have this writ for the ease of the country, that the cause may be tried before the justices of the same county. The purport of the writ is, that the sheriff is commanded to bring to Westminster the men impanneled at a certain day, before the justices, nisi prius, that is, unless the justices shall first come into the county to take assizes. Hence the courts directed to try matters of fact in the several counties are called courts of Nisi Prius, or Nisi Prius courts. In some of the United States, similar courts are established, with powers defined by statute.

Nit

NIT, noun The egg of a louse or other small insect.

Nitency

NI'TENCY, noun [Latin to shine.]

1. Brightness; luster. [Little used.]

2. [Latin to strive.] Endeavor; effort; spring to expand itself. [Little used.]

Niter

NI'TER, noun [In Hebrew, the verb under which this word appears signifies to spring, leap, shake, and to strip or break; in Ch. to strip or to fall off; in Syriac, the same; in Sam. to keep, to watch or guard.] A salt, called also salt-peter [stone-salt, ] and in the modern nomenclature of chimistry, nitrate of potash. It exists in large quantities in the earth, and is continually formed in inhabited places, on walls sheltered from rain, and in all situations where animal matters are decomposed, under stables and barns, etc. It is of great use in the arts; is the principal ingredient in gunpowder, and is useful in medicines, in preserving meat, butter, etc. It is a white substance, and has an acrid, bitterish taste.

Nithing

NITH'ING, noun A coward; a dastard; a poltroon. [See Niding.]

Nitid

NIT'ID, adjective

1. Bright; lustrous; shining.

2. Gay; spruce; fine; applied to persons. [Little used.]

Nitrate

NI'TRATE, noun A salt formed by the union of the nitric acid with a base; as nitrate of soda.

Nitrated

NI'TRATED, adjective Combined with niter.

Nitric

NI'TRIC, adjective Impregnated with niter. nitric acid is the acid saturated with oxygen, or an acid composed of oxygen and nitrogen or azote.

Nitrification

NITRIFICATION, noun The process of forming niter.

Nitrify

NITRIFY, verb transitive [Latin] To form into niter.

Nitrite

NI'TRITE, noun A salt formed by the combination of the nitrous acid with a base.

Nitro-Muriatic

NITRO-MURIAT'IC, adjective Partaking of niter and muria or sea-salt. The nitro-muriatic acid is a combination or mixture of nitric and muriatic acid.

Nitrogen

NI'TROGEN, noun [Gr. to produce.] The element of niter; that which produces niter; that element or component part of air which is called azote. [See Azote.]

Nitrogenous

NITROG'ENOUS, adjective Pertaining to nitrogen; producing niter.

Nitroleucic

NITROLEU'CIC, adjective Designating an acid obtained from leucine acted on by niter.

Nitrometer

NITROM'ETER, noun [Gr. to measure.] An instrument for ascertaining the quality or value of niter.

Nitrous

NI'TROUS, adjective Pertaining to niter; partaking of the qualities of niter, or resembling it. nitrous acid is one of the compounds formed of nitrogen and oxygen, in which the oxygen is in a lower proportion than that in which the same elements form nitric acid.

Nitry

NI'TRY, adjective Nitrous; pertaining to niter; producing niter.

Nitter

NIT'TER, noun [from nit.] The horse bee that deposits nits on horses.

Nittily

NIT'TILY, adverb [from nitty.] Lousily. [Not used.]

Nitty

NIT'TY, adjective [from nit.] Full of nits; abounding with nits.

Nival

NI'VAL, adjective [Latin snow.] Abounding with snow; snowy.

Niveous

NI'VEOUS, adjective Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

No

NO. an abbreviation of number.

NO, adverb

1. A word of denial or refusal, expressing a negative, and equivalent to nay and not. When it expresses a negative answer, it is opposed to yes or yea. Will you go? It is frequently used in denying propositions, and opposed to affirmation or concession. 'That I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no ' Exodus 16:4. no in this use, is deemed less elegant than not, but the use is very general.

2. After another negative, it repeats the negation with great emphasis.

There is none righteous, no not one. Romans 3:9. I Corinthians 5.

Sometimes it follows an affirmative proposition in like manner, but still it denies with emphasis and gives force to the following negative.

To whom we gave place by subjection, no not for an hour. Galatians 2:5.

Sometimes it begins a sentence with a like emphatical signification, strengthening the following negative.

NO, not the bow which so adorns the skies, so glorious is, or boasts so many dyes.

3. Not in any degree; as no longer; no shorter; no more; no less.

4. When no is repeated, it expresses negation or refusal with emphasis; as no no

NO, adjective

1. Not any; none.

Let there be no strife between thee and me. Genesis 13:8.

2. Not any; not one.

Thou shalt worship no other God. Exodus 34:3.

3. When it precedes where, as in no where, it may be considered as adverbial, though originally an adjective.

Nobilitate

NOBIL'ITATE, verb transitive [See Noble.] To make noble; to ennoble.

Nobilitation

NOBILITA'TION, noun The act of making noble.

Nobility

NOBIL'ITY, noun

1. Dignity of mind; greatness; grandeur; that elevation of soul which comprehends bravery, generosity, magnamimity, intrepidity, and contempt of every thing that dishonors character.

Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it.

They thought it great their sovereign to control, and named their pride, nobility of soul.

2. Antiquity of family; descent from noble ancestors; distinction by blood, usually joined with riches.

When I took up Boccace unawares, I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda.

3. The qualities which constitute distinction of rank in civil society, according to the customs or laws of the country; that eminence or dignity which a man derives from birth or title conferred, and which places him in an order above common men. In Great Britain, nobility is extended to five ranks, those of duke, marquis, earl, viscount and baron.

4. The persons collectively who enjoy rank above commoners; the peerage; as the English nobility; French, German, Russian nobility

Noble

NO'BLE, adjective

1. Great; elevated; dignified; being above every thing that can dishonor reputation; as a nobel mind; a noble courage; noble deeds of valor.

2. Exalted; elevated; sublime.

Statues, with winding ivy crown'd, belong to nobler poets for a nobler song.

3. Magnificent; stately; splendid; as a noble parade; a noble edifice.

4. Of an ancient and splendid family; as nobel by descent.

5. Distinguished from commoners by rank and title; as a noble personage.

6. Free; generous; liberal; as a noble heart.

7. Principal; capital; as the noble parts of the body.

8. Ingenuous; candid; of an excellent disposition; ready to receive truth. Acts 17:11.

9. Of the best kind; choice; excellent; as a noble vine. Jeremiah 2:21.

NO'BLE, noun

1. A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer; as a duke, marquis, earl, viscount or baron.

2. In Scripture, a person of honorable family or distinguished by station. Exodus 24:11. Nehemiah 6:17.

3. Originally, a gold coin, but now a money of account, value 6s. 8d. sterling, or $1 48cts.

Nobleness

NO'BLENESS, noun

1. Greatness; dignity; ingenuousness; magnanimity; elevation of mind or of condition, particularly of the mind.

His purposes are full of honesty, nobleness and integrity.

Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat build in her loveliest. The nobleness of life is to do this--

2. Distinction by birth; honor derived from a noble ancestry.

Nobless

NOBLESS', noun

1. The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

2. Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition. [In these senses, not now used.]

Noblewoman

NO'BLEWOMAN, noun A female of noble rank.

Nobly

NO'BLY, adverb

1. Of noble extraction; descended from a family of rank; as nobly born or descended.

2. With greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as a deed nobly done. He nobly preferred death to disgrace.

3. Splendidly; magnificently. He was nobly entertained.

Where could an emperor's ashes have been so nobly lodged as in the midst of his metropolis and on the top of so exalted a monument?

Nobody

NO'BODY, noun [no and body.] No person; no one.

Nocent

NO'CENT, adjective [Latin to hurt, from striking.] Hurtful; mischievous; injurious; doing hurt; as nocent qualities.

Nocive

NO'CIVE, adjective Hurtful; injurious.

Nock

NOCK, noun A notch. [See Notch.]

NOCK, verb transitive To place in the notch.

Noctambulation

NOCTAMBULA'TION, noun [Latin night, to walk.] A rising from bed and walking in sleep.

Noctambulist

NOCTAM'BULIST, noun One who rises from bed and walks in his sleep. Arbuthnot uses noctambulo in the same sense; but it is a less analogical word.

Noctidial

NOCTID'IAL, adjective [Latin night, and dies, day.] Comprising a night and a day. [Little used.]

Noctiferous

NOCTIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin night, and to bring.] Bringing night. [Not used.]

Noctiluca

NOCTIL'UCA, noun [Latin night, and to shine.] A species of phosphorus which shines in darkness without the previous aid of solar rays.

Noctilucous

NOCTIL'UCOUS, adjective Shining in the night.

Noctivagant

NOCTIV'AGANT, adjective [Latin night, and to wander.] Wandering in the night.

Noctivagation

NOCTIVAGA'TION, noun A roving in the night.

Noctuary

NOC'TUARY, noun [from Latin night.] An account of what passes in the night.

Noctule

NOC'TULE, noun [from Latin night.] A large species of bat.

Nocturn

NOC'TURN, noun [Latin by night.] An office of devotion, or religious service by night.

Nocturnal

NOCTURN'AL, adjective [Latin night.]

1. Pertaining to night; as nocturnal darkness.

2. Done or happening at night; as a nocturnal expedition or assault; a nocturnal visit.

3. Nightly; done or being every night.

From gilded roofs depending lamps display nocturnal beams, that emulate the day.

NOCTURN'AL, noun An instrument, chiefly used at sea to take the altitude of stars about the pole, in order to ascertain the latitude. This may be a hemisphere, or a planisphere on the plane of the equinoctial.

Nocument

NOCUMENT, noun [Latin To hurt.] Harm.

Nod

NOD, verb intransitive [Gr. contracted; a nod; to nod to beckon, a leap a spring; to leap, to throb or beat, as the pulse]

1. To incline the head with a quick motion, either forward or sidewise, as persons nod in sleep.

2. To bend or incline with a quick motion; as nodding plumes.

The nodding verdure of its brow.

3. To be drowsy.

Your predecessors, contrary to other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding.

4. To make a slight bow; also, to beckon with a nod

NOD, verb transitive To incline or bend; to shake.

NOD, noun

1. A quick declination of the head.

A look or a nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss.

2. A quick declination or inclination.

Like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready with every nod to tumble down.

3. A quick inclination of the head in drowsiness or sleep.

4. A slight obeisance.

5. A command; as in Latin numen, for nutamen.

Nodated

NODATED, adjective Knotted. A nodated hyperbola is one that by turning round crosses itself.

Nodation

NODATION, noun [Latin To tie.] The act of making a knot, or state of being knotted. [Little used.]

Nodden

NODDEN, adjective Bent; inclined. [Not in use.]

Nodder

NODDER, noun One who nods; a drowsy person.

Nodding

NODDING, participle present tense Inclining the head with a short quick motion.

Noddle

NODDLE, noun [Latin A lump; or from nod.] The head; in contempt.

Come, master, I have a project in my noddle

Noddy

NODDY, noun

1. A simpleton; a fool.

2. A fowl of the genus Sterna, very simple and easily taken.

3. A game at cards.

Node

NODE, noun

1. Properly, a knot; a knob; hence,

2. In surgery, a swelling of the periosteum, tendons or bones.

3. In astronomy, the point where the orbit of a planet intersects the ecliptic. These points are two, and that where a planet ascends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node or dragons head; that where a planet descends to the south, is called the descending node or dragons tail.

4. In poetry, the knot, intrigue or plot of a piece, or the principal difficulty.

5. In dialing, a point or hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the shadow or light of which, either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the suns declination and his place in the ecliptic, etc. in dials with furniture, are shown.

Nodose

NODOSE, adjective [Latin Knot.] Knotted; having knots or swelling joints.

Nodosity

NODOSITY, noun Knottiness.

Nodous

NODOUS, adjective Knotty; full of knots.

Nodular

NODULAR, adjective Pertaining to or in the form of a nodule or knot.

Nodule

NODULE, noun A little knot or lump.

Noduled

NODULED, adjective Having little knots or lumps.

Nog

NOG, noun A little pot; also, ale.

Noggen

NOGGEN, adjective Hard; rough; harsh. [Not used.]

Noggin

NOGGIN, noun A small mug or wooden cup.

Nogging

NOGGING, noun A partition of scantlings filled with bricks.

Noiance

NOIANCE, noun [See Annoy.] Annoyance; trouble; mischief; inconvenience. [Not used.]

Noie

NOIE, for annoy is not in use.

Noier

NOIER, for annoyer is not in use.

Noious

NOIOUS, for troublesome is not in use.

Noise

NOISE, noun

1. Sound of any kind, or proceeding from any cause, as the sound made by the organs of speech, by the wings of an insect, the rushing of the wind, or the roaring of the sea, of cannon or thunder, a low sound, a high sound, etc.; a word of general signification.

2. Outcry; clamor; loud, importunate or continued talk expressive of boasting, complaint or quarreling. In quarreling, it expresses less than uproar.

What noise have we about transplantation of diseases and transfusion of blood?

3. Frequent talk; much public conversation.

Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made so much noise in all ages, and never caught the least infection.

NOISE, verb intransitive To sound loud.

Harm those terrors did me none, though noising loud.

NOISE, verb transitive

1. To spread by rumor or report.

All these sayings were noised abroad-- Luke 1:65.

2. To disturb with noise [Not authorized.]

Noise-Maker

NOISE-MAKER, noun One who makes a clamor.

Noised

NOISED, participle passive Spread by report; much talked of.

Noiseful

NOISEFUL, adjective Loud; clamorous; making much noise or talk.

Noiseless

NOISELESS, adjective Making no noise or bustle; silent; as the noiseless foot of time.

So noiseless would I live.

Noisily

NOISILY, adverb With noise; with making a noise.

Noisiness

NOISINESS, noun The state of being noisy; loudness of sound; clamorousness.

Noising

NOISING, participle present tense Spreading by report.