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Nageia
A small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea.
Nainsook
A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.
Nap
To raise, or put, a nap on.
Napery
Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.
narcissism
An exceptional interest in and admiration for oneself.
narrowed
reduced in size as if by being squeezed.
Narrow-minded
Of narrow mental scope; lacking tolerance or breadth of view; illiberal; mean. Opposite of , , .
Natation
The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Natchez
A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of , Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.
Nauheim treatment
Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at , Germany, by , consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage, etc.; hence, any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with the essential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim. Hence, , etc.
naumachia
Same as .
Navarrese
Of or pertaining to Navarre.
Navel-string
The .
navigational
of or pertaining to navigation; used in navigation; .
Nawab
A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
Neap
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
Nearhand
Near; near at hand; closely.
Nearsighted
Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.
nebulation
The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
Necessitattion
The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion.
Necessity
The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
Necrobiosis
The death of a part of an organism by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy; a normal dying out of cells in a tissue, in contrast to .
Necrophagous
Of or pertaining to the ; eating carrion. See .
Necrosed
Affected by necrosis; dead; .
Need
To be wanted; to be necessary.
Needle
To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
needleful
As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
neencephalon
The most recently evolved part of the of higher animals. It includes the cerebral cortex and related structures.
Ne exeat
A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree.
Negotiator
One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public or private compacts.
Nemathecium
A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red alg, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.
Nematoid
Of or pertaining to the .
Nemertid
Nemertean.
Neocarida
The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.
Neocomian
A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
Neocriticism
The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following . It rejects the noumena of , restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
Neodymium
The chemical element of atomic number 60, one of the elements. Symbol . Atomic weight 144.27.
Neogamist
A person recently married.
Neomenia
The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.
Neomenoidea
A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.
Neotropical
Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.
Nepalese
Of or pertaining to Nepal, a kingdom North of India; .
Nepenthe
A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
Nephrotomy
Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Nepidae
A natural family of water scorpions.
Nereites
Fossil tracks of annelids.
Nerthus
The Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse .
Nethermost
Lowest; .
Neufchacirc;tel
A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from -en-Bray in France.
Neurotomy
The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.
neutered
Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes.
Neutralizer
One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.
newsroom
A room where news is collected and disseminated, located in the offices of a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast organization; .
Nickelic
Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the compounds, the metal has a higher valence; .
Nickname
To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
Nidulate
To make a nest, as a bird.
nifty
Very good; excellent; -- an informal term meaning about the same as , sense 1.
Nifle
A trifle.
Nigerian
of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the country Nigeria; .
Nightless
Having no night.
Nil
Will not.
Nine-bark
A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (, or ), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
Niobe
The daughter of , and wife of , king of . Her pride in her children provoked and , who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
Nipplewort
A yellow-flowered composite herb (), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also .
Nitrolic
Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; .
Noctivagation
A roving or going about in the night.
Noctuid
Any one of numerous moths of the family , or , as the cutworm moths, and armyworm moths; -- so called because they fly at night.
Nocturnal
An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the stars, etc., at sea.
Node
A knot, a knob; a protuberance; a swelling.
Noiseless
Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; .
Noisette
A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, , of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the , the , and the . Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.
Nomadic
Of or pertaining to nomads, or their way of life; wandering; moving from place to place for subsistence; .
Nomography
A treatise on laws; an exposition of the form proper for laws.
noncausal
not causal.
Noncomplying
Neglecting or refusing to comply.
Nondescript
A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.
None
Same as , 2.
Nonobservance
Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
Nonplane
Not lying in one plane; not planar; -- said of certain curves.
Nonregardance
Want of due regard; disregard; slight.
Nonylene
Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons of the ethylene series.
Nonylic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; .
Noon
Belonging to midday; occurring at midday; meridional.
noradrenaline
Same as .
Norimon
A Japanese covered litter, carried by men.
Norse
Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
North
To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.
Northwesterly
Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.
Nostalgic
Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.
Nothingism
Nihility; nothingness.
Novelette
A short novel; a novella.
nth
Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series; .
nubia
A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.
Nuclear
of, pertaining to, or using ; .
nuclear-powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor. Same as .
Nugacity
Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.
Nuisancer
One who makes or causes a nuisance.
Numbers
of . The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
Numerator
One who numbers.
Numerous
Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; .
Numps
A dolt; a blockhead.
Nymphaeaceae
A natural family of dicot aquatic plants.