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Nourish

NOURISH, verb transitive [G. to nourish cannot be the same word unless they have lost a dental, which may perhaps be the fact.]

1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply a living or organized body, animal or vegetable, with matter which increases its bulk or supplies the waste occasioned by any of its functions; to supply with nutriment.

2. To support; to maintain by feeding. Genesis 47:12.

Whilst I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm.

3. To supply the means of support and increase; to encourage; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues.

What madness was ti, with such proofs, to nourish their contentions!

4. To cherish; to comfort. James 5:5.

5. To educate; to instruct; to promote growth in attainments. 1 Timothy 4:6.

NOURISH, verb intransitive

1. To promote growth.

Grains and roots nourish more then leaves. [Elliptical.]

2. To gain nourishment. [Unusual.]

Nourishable

NOURISHABLE, adjective Susceptible of nourishment; as the nourishable parts of the body.

Nourished

NOURISHED, participle passive Fed; supplied with nutriment; caused to grow.

Nourisher

NOURISHER, noun The person or thing that nourishes.

Nourishing

NOURISHING, participle present tense

1. Feeding; supplying with aliment; supporting with food.

2. Promoting growth; nutritious; as a nourishing diet.

Nourishment

NOURISHMENT, noun

1. That which serves to promote the growth of animals or plants, or to repair the waste of animal bodies; food; sustenance; nutriment.

2. Nutrition; support of animal or vegetable bodies.

3. Instruction, or that which promotes growth in attainments; as nourishment and growth in grace.

So they may learn to seek the nourishment of their souls.

Nouriture

NOURITURE. [See Nurture.]

Noursling

NOURSLING. [See Nursling.]

Novaculite

NOVAC'ULITE, noun [Latin a razor.] Razor-stone; Turkey-hone; coticular shist; whet-slate, a variety of argillaceous slate.

Novatian

NOVA'TIAN, noun In church history, one of the sect of Novatus or Novatianus, who held that the lapsed might not be received again into communion with the church, and that second marriages are unlawful.

Novatianism

NOVA'TIANISM, noun The opinions of the Novations.

One Hypolitus, a Roman presbyter, had been seduced into novatianism

Novation

NOVATION. [See Innovation.]

Novator

NOVATOR. [See Innovator.]

Novel

NOV'EL, adjective

1. New; of recent origin or intorduction; not ancient; hence, unusual; as a novel heresy; novel opinions. The proceedings of the court were novel

2. In the civil law, the novel consititutions are those which are supplemental to the code, and posterior in time to the other books. These contained new decrees of successive emperors.

3. In the common law, the assize of novel disseizin is an action in which the demandant recits a complaint of the disseizin in terms of direct averment, whereupon the sheriff is commanded to reseize the land and chattels thereon, and keep the same in custody till the arrival of the justices of assize.

NOV'EL, noun

1. A new or supplemental constitution or decree. [See the Adjective.]

2. A fictitious tale or narrative in prose, intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.

The coxcomb's novel and the drunkard's toast.

Novelism

NOV'ELISM, n Innovation. [Little used.]

Novelist

NOV'ELIST, noun

1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

2. A writer of a novel or of novels.

3. A writer of news.

Novelize

NOV'ELIZE, verb intransitive To innovate. [Not in use.]

Novelty

NOV'ELTY, noun Newness; recentness of origin or introduction.

Novelty is the great parent of pleasure.

November

NOVEM'BER, noun [Latin from nine; the ninth month, according to the ancient Roman year, beginning in March.] The eleventh month of the year.

Novenary

NO'VENARY, noun [nine.] The number nine; nine collectively.

NOVENARY, adjective Pertaining to the number nine.

Novennial

NO'VEN'NIAL, adjective Done every ninth year.

Novercal

NOVER'CAL, adjective [Latin a step-mother.] Pertaining to a step-mother; suitable to a step-mother; in the manner of a step-mother.

Novice

NOV'ICE, noun [Latin from new.]

1. One who is new in any business; one unacquainted or unskilled; one in the rudiments; a beginner.

I am young, a novice in the trade.

2. One that has entered a religious house but has not taken the vow; a probationer.

3. One newly planted in the church, or one newly converted to the Christian faith. 1 Timothy 3:6.

Novitiate

NOVI'TIATE, noun

1. The state or time or learning rudiments.

2. In religious houses, a year or other time of probation for the trial of a noveice, to determine whether he has the necessary qualities for living up to the rule to which his vow is to bind him.

Novitious

NOVI'TIOUS, adjective Newly invented. [Not used.]

Novity

NOV'ITY, noun Newness. [Not used.]

Now

NOW, adverb

1. At the present time.

I have a patient now living at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.

2. A little while ago; very lately.

They that but now for honor and for plate, made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

3. At one time; at another time.

NOW high, now low, now master up, now miss.

4. now sometimes expresses or implies a connection between the subsequent and preceding proposition; often it introduces an inference or an explanation of what precedes.

Not this man, but barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. John 18:14.

Then said Mich, now I know that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite for my priest. Judges 17:3.

The other great mischief which befalls men, is by their being misrepresented. now by calling evil good, a man is misrepresented to others in the way of slander--

5. After this; things being so.

How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor?

6. In supplication, it appears to be somewhat emphatical.

I beseech thee, O Lord, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart. 2 Kings 20:3.

7. now sometimes refers to a particular time past specified or understood, and may be defined, at that time. He was now sensible of his mistake.

NOW and then, at one time and another, indefinitely; occasionally; not often; at intervals.

They now and then appear in offices of religion.

If there were any such thing as spontaneous generation, a new species would now and then appear.

2. Applied to places which appear at intervals or in succession.

A mead here, ther a heath, and now and then a wood.

NOW, now repeated, is used to excite attention to something immediately to happen.

NOW, noun The present time or moment.

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now does ever last.

NOW a days, adverb In this age.

What men of spirit now a days, come to give sober judgment a new plays?

[This is a common colloquial phrase, but not elegant in writing, unless of the more familiar kinds.]

Noway

NO'WAY, adverb [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]

Noways

NO'WAYS, adverb [no and way.] In no manner or degree. [These can hardly be considered as compound words.]

Nowed

NOW'ED, adjective Knotted; tied in a knot; used in heraldry.

Nowel

NOW'EL, noun A shout of joy or christmas song.

Nowes

NOWES, noun The marriage knot.

Nowhere

NO'WHERE, adverb Not in any place or state. Happiness is nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue.

But it is better to write no and where as separate words.

Nowise

NO'WISE, adverb [no and wise; often by mistake written noways.] Not in any manner or degree.

Noxious

NOXIOUS, adjective [Latin from hurt.]

1. Hurtful; harmful; baneful; pernicious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as noxious air, food, climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as noxious practices or examples; noxious haunts of vice.

2. Guilty; criminal.

Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. [Little used.]

3. Unfavorable; injurious.

Too frequent appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotion.

Noxiously

NOX'IOUSLY, adverb Hurtfully; perniciously.

Noxiousness

NOX'IOUSNESS, noun

1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity; as the noxiousness of foul air.

2. The quality that corrupts or perverts; as the noxiousness of doctrines.

Noy, noyance, noyer, noyful, noyous, noysance. [See Annoy and Nuisance.]

Noyau

NOYAU, noun A rich cordial.

Nozle

NOZ'LE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.

Nozzle

NOZ'ZLE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.

Nubble

NUB'BLE, verb transitive [for knubble, from knob, the fist.] To beat or bruise with the fist. [Not used.]

Nubiferous

NUBIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin a cloud or fog, and to produce.] Brining or producing clouds.

Nubile

NU'BILE, adjective [Latin to marry.] Marriageable; of an age suitable for marriage.

Nubilous

NU'BILOUS, adjective Cloudy.

Nuciferous

NUCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin nut and to bear.] Bearing or producing nuts.

Nucleus

NU'CLEUS, noun [Latin a nut.]

1. Properly, the kernel of a nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected.

2. The body of a comet, called also its head, which appears to be surrounded with light.

Nudation

NUDA'TION, noun [Latin to make bare.] The act of stripping or making bare or naked.

Nude

NUDE, adjective

1. Bare.

2. In law, void; of no force.

Nudity

NU'DITY, noun

1. Nakedness.

2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed.

3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or parts not covered with drapery.

Nudum Pactum, [Latin] in law, an agreement that is void or not valid according to the laws of the land.

Nugacity

NUGAC'ITY, noun [Latin trifles.] Futility; trifling talk or behavior.

Nugation

NUGA'TION, noun [Latin to trifle.] The act or practice of trifling. [Little used.]

Nugatory

NU'GATORY, adjective

1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. The laws are sometimes rendered nugatory by inexecution. Any agreement may be rendered nugatory by something which contravenes its execution.

Nuisance

NU'ISANCE, noun [Latin to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]

1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. A liar is a nusance to society.

2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.

Nullifidian

NULLIFID'IAN, adjective [Latin none, and faith.] Of no faith; of no religion or honesty. [Not used.]

Nullified

NUL'LIFIED, participle passive Made void.

Nullify

NUL'LIFY, verb transitive [Latin none, and to make.] To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

Nullity

NUL'LITY, noun

1. Nothingness; want of existence.

2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy.

Numb

NUMB, adjective

1. Torpid; destitute of the power of sensation and motion; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as the numb cold night. [Not used nor proper.]

NUMB, verb transitive To make torpid; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.

And numbing coldness has embraced the ear.

Numbed

NUMBED, participle passive Rendered torpid.

Number

NUM'BER, noun [Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to number number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is number ]

1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number

2. An assemblage of two or more units. Two is a number composed of one and one added. Five and three added make the number eight. number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification. Hence,

3. More than one; many.

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.

4. Multitude.

Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage.

5. In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear. The harmony of verse consists in the proper distribution of the long and short syllables, with suitable pauses. In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic numbers.

6. Poetry; verse.

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

Here the first word numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure.

Yet shoud the Muses bid my numbers roll.

7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality. The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular number; the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural number Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural number

8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished. cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as first, second, third, fourth, etc.

Determinate number is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three; an indeterminate number is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.

Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units; those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal.

Whole numbers, are called integers.

A rational number is one commensurable with unity. A number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd.

A prime or primitive number is divisible only by unity; as three, five, seven, etc.

A perfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole number as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. 7. 4. 2. 1. make the number 28.

An imperfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the number This is abundant or defedtive; abundant, as 12, whose aliquot parts, 6. 4. 3. 2. 1. make 16; or defective, as 16 whose aliquot parts, 8. 4. 2. 1. make 15 only.

A square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself; as, 16 is the square number of four.

A cubic number is the product of a square number by its root; as, 27 is the product of the square number 9 by its root 3.

Golden number the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before.

NUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude.

If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 8:1.

2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

He was numbered with the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.

Numbered

NUM'BERED, participle passive Counted; enumerated.

Numberer

NUMBERER, noun One that counts numbers.

Numbering

NUM'BERING, participle present tense Counting; ascertaining the units of a multitutde or collection.

Numberless

NUM'BERLESS, adjective That cannot be counted; innumerable.

Numbers

NUM'BERS, noun The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

Numbing

NUMBING, participle present tense Making torpid.

Numbles

NUM'BLES, noun The entrails of a deer.

Numbness

NUMBNESS, noun Torpor; that state of a living body in which it has not the power of feeling or motion, as when paralytc or chilled by cold.

Numerable

NU'MERABLE, adjective That may be numbered or counted.

Numeral

NU'MERAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to number; consisting of number.

The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions.

2. Expressing number; representing number; standing as a substitute for figures; as numeral letters; as X for 10; L for fifty; C for 100; D for 500; M for 1000.

3. Expressing numbers; as numeral characters. The figures we now use to express numbers are 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 0. They are said to be of Arabian origin; but the Arabians might have received them from India. This is a controverted question.

Numerally

NU'MERALLY, adverb According to number; in number.

Numerary

NU'MERARY, adjective Belonging to a certain number.

A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.

Numerate

NU'MERATE, verb transitive To count or reckon in numbers; to calculate. [But enumerate is generally used.]

Numeration

NUMERA'TION, noun

1. The act or art of numbering.

Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.

2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers. Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.

Numerator

NU'MERATOR, noun [Latin]

1. One that numbers.

2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken. Thus when a unit is divided into 9 parts, and we take 5, we express it thus, 5/9, that is, five ninths; 5 being the numerator and 9 the denominator.

Numeric

NUMER'IC, adjective [Latin , number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.

2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.

Numerical

NUMER'ICAL, adjective [Latin , number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.

2. numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.

Numerically

NUMER'ICALLY, adverb

1. In numbers; as parts of a thing numerically expressed.

2. With respect to number or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.

Numerist

NU'MERIST, noun One that deals in numbers. [Not used.]

Numerosity

NUMEROS'ITY, noun The state of being numerous. [Not used.]

Numerous

NU'MEROUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.

2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical. In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words.

Numerously

NUMEROUSLY, adverb In great numbers.

Numerousness

NU'MEROUSNESS, noun

1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals; as the numerousness of an army or of an assembly.

2. The quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness.

Numismatic

NUMISMAT'IC, adjective [Latin , money, coin; Gr., to suppose, to sanction, law or custom.] Pertaining money, coin or medals.

Numismatics

NUMISMAT'ICS, noun The science of coins and medals.

Numismatologist

NUMISMATOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.

Numismatology

NUMISMATOL'OGY, noun [Gr., coin, and discourse.] The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.

Nummary

NUM'MARY, adjective [Latin , a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.

Nummular

NUM'MULAR, adjective [Latin , a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.

Nummulite

NUM'MULITE, noun [Latin , money.] Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money.

Numps

NUMPS, noun A dolt; a blockhead. [Not used.]

Numskull

NUM'SKULL, noun [numb and skull.] A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

Numskulled

NUM'SKULLED, adjective Dull in intellect; stupid; doltish.

Nun

NUN, noun A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.

NUN, noun

1. A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck.

2. The blue titmouse.

Nunchion

NUN'CHION, noun A portion of food taken between meals. [qu. from noon, or a corruption of luncheon.]

Nunciature

NUN'CIATURE, noun [See Nuncio] The office of a nuncio.

Nuncio

NUN'CIO, noun [Latin , a messenger.]

1. An embassador from the pope to some catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope's representative.

2. A messsenger; one who brings intelligence.

Nuncupate

NUN'CUPATE, verb transitive [Latin] To declare publicly or solemnly. [Not used.]

Nuncupation

NUNCUPA'TION, noun A naming.

Nuncupative

NUNCU'PATIVE, adjective [Latin , to declare.]

1. Nominal; existing only in name.

2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.

3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.

Nuncupatory

NUNCU'PATORY, adjective [Latin , to declare.]

1. Nominal; existing only in name.

2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.

3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.

Nundinal

NUN'DINAL, adjective [Latin , a fair or market, every nine days.]

1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.

2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last dya of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.

NUN'DINAL, noun A nundinal letter.

Nundinate

NUN'DINATE, verb intransitive To buy and sell at fairs. [Not used.]

Nundination

NUNDINA'TION, noun Traffick in fairs. [Not used.]

Nunnation

NUNNA'TION, noun In Arabic grammar, from the name of N, the pronunciation of n at the end of words.

Nunnery

NUN'NERY, noun A house in which nuns reside; a cloister in which females under a vow of chastity and devoted to religion, reside during life.

Nuptial

NUP'TIAL, adjective [Latin , to marry.]

1. Pertaining to marriage; done at a wedding; as nuptial rites and ceremonies; nuptial torch.

2. Constituting marriage; as the nuptial knot or band.

The Bible has mitigated the horrors of war; it has given effectual obligation to the nuptial vow.

Nuptials

NUP'TIALS, noun plural Marriage, which see.

Nurse

NURSE, noun

1. A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others.

2. A woman who suckles infants.

3. A woman that has the care of a sick person.

4. A man who has the care of the sick.

5. A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts.

6. An old woman; in contempt.

7. The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse

8. In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond.

NURSE, verb transitive

1. To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child.

2. To suckle; to nourish at the breast.

3. To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness.

4. To tend the sick; applied to males and females.

5. To ffed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60:4.

6. To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in. We say, to nurse a feeble animal or plant.

By what hands has vice been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?

7. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

Nursed

NURS'ED, participle passive Tended in infancy or sickness; nourished from the breast maintained; cherished.

Nurser

NURS'ER, noun One that cherishes or encourages growth.

Nursery

NURS'ERY, noun

1. The place or apartment in a house appropriated to the care of children.

2. A place where young trees are propagated for the purpose of being transplanted; a plantation of young trees.

3. The place where any thing is fostered and the growth promoted.

To see fair Padua, nursery of arts.

So we say , a nursery of thieves or of rogues. Ale houses and dram-shops are the nurseries of intemperance.

Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.

4. Taht which forms and educates. Commerce is the nursery of seamen.

5. The act of nursing. [Little used.]

6. That which is the object of a nurse's care.

Nursing

NURS'ING, participle present tense Tending; nourishing at the breast; education; maintaining.

Nursling

NURS'LING, noun

1. An infant; a child.

2. One that is nursed.

Nurture

NUR'TURE, noun

1. That which nourishes; food; diet.

2. That which promotes growth; education; instruction. Ephesians 6:4.

NUR'TURE, verb transitive

1. To feed; to nourish.

2. To educate; to bring or train up.

He was nurtured where he was born.

NUSANCE. [See Nuisance.]

Nusance

NU'SANCE, noun [Latin to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]

1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. A liar is a nusance to society.

2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.

Nut

NUT, noun [It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]

1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit. Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut.

2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.

3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.

NUT, verb transitive To gather nuts.

Nut-Breaker

NUT-BREAKER. [See Nutcracker.]

NUT'-BROWN, adjective Brown as a nut long kept and dried.

NUT'-CRACKER, noun

1. An instrument for cracking nuts.

2. A bird of the genus Corvus; the nut-breaker

Nut-Hatch

NUT'-HATCH, noun The common name of birds of the genus sitta. The common European nut-hatch is called also nut-jobber and nut-pecker.

NUT'-HOOK, noun A pole with a hook at the end to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts; also, the name given to a thief that stole goods from a window by means of a hook.

Nutation

NUTA'TION, noun [Latin , a nodding, to nod.] In astronomy, a kind of tremulous motion of the axis of the earth, by which in its annual revolution it is twice inclined to the ecliptic, and as often returns to its former position.

Nutgall

NUT'GALL, noun An excrescence of the oak.

Nutmeg

NUT'MEG, noun [Latin But it may be questionable whether the last syllable in English, meg, is not from Latin , mace, the bark that envelops the nut.] The fruit of a tree of the genus Myristica, growing in the isles of the East Indies and South Sea. The tree gorws to the gighth of thirty feet, producing numerous branches. The color of the bark of the trunk is a reddish brown; that of the young branches a bright green. The fruit is of the kind called drupe, that is, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a nut or kernel. The covering of this nut is the mace. The nutmeg is an aromatic, very grateful to the taste and smell, and much used in cookery.

Nutrication

NUTRICA'TION, noun Manner of feeding or being fed. [Not in use.]

Nutrient

NU'TRIENT, adjective [Latin] Nourishing; promoting growth.

NU'TRIENT, noun Any substance which nourishes by promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies.

Nutriment

NU'TRIMENT, noun [Latin , from to nourish.]

1. That which nourishes; that which promotes the growth or repairs the natural waste of animal bodies, or that which promotes the growth of vegetables; food; aliment.

2. That which promotes enlargement or improvement; as the nutriment of the mind.

Nutrimental

NUTRIMENT'AL, adjective Having the qualities of food; alimental.

Nutrition

NUTRI'TION, noun [Latin , to nourish.]

1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables.

2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition propagate, and rot.

There is no nutrition in ardent spirits.

Nutritious

NUTRI'TIOUS, adjective Nourishing; promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies. Milk is very nutritious

Nutritive

NU'TRITIVE, adjective Having the quality of nourishing; nutrimental; alimental; as a nutritive food.

Nutriture

NU'TRITURE, noun The quality of nourishing. [Not used.]

NUT'-SHELL, noun

1. The hard shell of a nut; the covering of the kernel.

2. Proverbially, a thing of little compass or of little value.

NUT'-TREE, noun A tree that bears nuts.

Nuzzle

NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle.] To nurse; to foster. [Vulgar.]

NUZZLE, verb transitive [qu. from nose or noursle.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom.

NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle or nestle.] To nestle; to house as in a nest.

NUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive [qu. from nose.] To go with the nose near the ground, or thrusting the nose into the ground like a swine.

Nyctalops

NYC'TALOPS, noun [Gr., night and the eye.]

1. One that sees best in the night.

2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning.

Nyctalopy

NYC'TALOPY, noun

1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds.

2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sight as night approaches, and remains blind till morning.

Nye

NYE, noun A brood or flock of pheasants.

Nylgau

NYL'GAU, noun A quadruped of the genus Bos, a native of the interior of India, of a middle size between the cow and the deer. Its body, horns and tail are not unlike those of a bull; the head, neck and legs resemble those of the deer. The color is an ash gray.

Nymph

NYMPH, noun

1. In mythology, a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows and waters. According to the ancients, all the world was full of nymphs, some terrestrial, others celestial; and these had names assigned to them according to their place of residence, or the parts of the world over which they were supposed to preside.

2. In poetry, a lady.

NYMPH, noun Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.

Nympha

NYMPH'A, noun Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.

Nymphean

NYMPHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as a nymphean cave.

Nymphical

NYMPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to nymphs.

Nymphish

NYMPH'ISH, adjective Relating to nymphs; lady-like.

Nymphlike

NYMPH'LIKE, adjective Resembling nymphs.

Nymphly

NYMPH'LY, adjective Resembling nymphs.

Nys

NYS, [ne and is.] None is; is not.