Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 10

Neighboring (a.) Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.

Neighborliness (n.) The quality or state of being neighborly.

Neighborly (a.) Apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly.

Neighborly (adv.) In a neigborly manner.

Neighborship (n.) The state of being neighbors.

Neishout (n.) The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.

Neither (a.) Not either; not the one or the other.

Neither (conj.) not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.

Nelumbo (n.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa.

Nemaline (a.) Having the form of threads; fibrous.

Nemalite (n.) A fibrous variety of brucite.

Nematelmia (n. pl.) Same as Nemathelminthes.

Nemathecia (pl. ) of Nemathecium

Nemathecium (n.) A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

Nemthelminthes (n. pl.) Alt. of Nematelminthes

Nematelminthes (n. pl.) An ordr of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms.

Nemato- () A combining form from Gr. nh^ma, nh`matos, a thread.

Nematoblast (n.) A spermatocyte or spermoblast.

Nematocalyces (pl. ) of Nematocalyx

Calyxes (pl. ) of Nematocalyx

Nematocalyx (n.) One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

Nematocera (n. pl.) A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera.

Nematocyst (n.) A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.

Nematode (a. & n.) Same as Nematoid.

Nematogene (n.) One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene.

Nematognath (n.) one of the Nematognathi.

Nematognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

Nematoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nematoidea.

Nematoid (n.) One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.

Nematoidea (n. pl.) An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda.

Nematoidean (a. & n.) Nematoid.

Nematophora (n. pl.) Same as Coelenterata.

Nemean (a.) Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.

Nemetean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Nemertina.

Nemetean (n.) One of the Nemertina.

Nemertes (n.) A genus of nemertina.

Nemertian (a. & n.) Nemertean.

Nemertid (a. & n.) Nemertean.

Nemertida (n. pl.) Nemertina.

Nemertina (n. pl.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.

Nemesis (n.) The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.

Nemophilist (n.) One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.

Nemophily (n.) Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.

Nemoral (a.) Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.

Nemorous (a.) Woody.

Nempne (v.) To name or call.

Nempt (p. p.) Called; named.

Nems (n.) The ichneumon.

Nenia (n.) A funeral song; an elegy.

Nenuphar (n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.

Neo- () A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistry designating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbons which, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, and in which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with four other carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

Neocarida (n. pl.) The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.

Neocene (a.) More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

Neo-Christianity (n.) Rationalism.

Neocomian (n.) A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

Neocomian (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower greensand.

Neocosmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history.

Neocracy (n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

Neodamode (n.) In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.

Neodymium (n.) An elementary substance which forms one of the constituents of didymium. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 140.8.

Neogaean (a.) Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.

Neogamist (n.) A person recently married.

Neogen (n.) An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.

Neography (n.) A new method or system of writing.

Neo-Latin (a.) Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.

Neolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.

Neologian (a.) Neologic; neological.

Neologian (n.) A neologist.

Neologianism (n.) Neologism.

Neologic (a.) Alt. of Neological

Neological (a.) Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.

Neologically (adv.) In a neological manner.

Neologism (n.) The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.

Neologism (n.) A new word, phrase, or expression.

Neologism (n.) A new doctrine; specifically, rationalism.

Neologist (n.) One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.

Neologist (n.) An innovator in any doctrine or system of belief, especially in theology; one who introduces or holds doctrines subversive of supernatural or revealed religion; a rationalist, so-called.

Neologistic (a.) Alt. of Neologistical

Neologistical (a.) Of or pertaining to neology; neological.

Neologization (n.) The act or process of neologizing.

Neologize (v. i.) To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.

Neologize (v. i.) To introduce innovations in doctrine, esp. in theological doctrine.

Neology (n.) The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.

Neology (n.) A new doctrine; esp. (Theol.), a doctrine at variance with the received interpretation of revealed truth; a new method of theological interpretation; rationalism.

Neomenia (n.) The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

Neomenoidea (n. pl.) A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.

Neomorph (n.) A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

Neonism (n.) Neologism.

Neonomian (n.) One who advocates adheres to new laws; esp. one who holds or believes that the gospel is a new law.

Neonomian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines.

Neonomianism (n.) The doctrines or belief of the neonomians.

Neophyte (n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.

Neophyte (n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything.

Neoplasia (n.) Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

Neoplasm (n.) A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

Neoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.

Neoplasty (n.) Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

Neoplatonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.

Neoplatonician (n.) A neoplatonist.

Neoplatonism (n.) A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

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