Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 11

Neoplatonist (n.) One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

Neorama (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.

Neossine (n.) The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.

Neossology (n.) The study of young birds.

Neoteric (a.) Alt. of Neoterical

Neoterical (a.) Recent in origin; modern; new.

Neoteric (n.) One of modern times; a modern.

Neoterically (adv.) Recently; newly.

Neoterism (n.) An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

Neoterist (n.) One ho introduces new word/ or phrases.

Neoterized (imp. & p. p.) of Neoterize

Neoterized (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neoterize

Neoterize (v. i.) To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.

Neotropical (a.) Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.

Neozoic (a.) More recent than the Paleozoic, -- that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

Nep (n.) Catnip.

Nepa (n.) A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.

Nepaulese (a.) Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan.

Nepaulese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Nepaul.

Nepenthe (n.) 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.

Nepenthes (n.) Same as Nepenthe.

Nepenthes (n.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

Nepeta (n.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

Nephalism (n.) Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

Nephalist (n.) One who advocates or practices nephalism.

Nepheline (n.) Alt. of Nephelite

Nephelite (n.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

Nephelodometer (n.) An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.

Nephelometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

Nephew (n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.

Nephew (n.) A cousin.

Nephew (n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

Nephilim (n. pl.) Giants.

Nephoscope (n.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Nephralgia (n.) Alt. of Nephralgy

Nephralgy (n.) Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter.

Nephridial (a.) Of or pertaining to a nephridium.

Nephridia (pl. ) of Nephridium

Nephridium (n.) A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

Nephrite (n.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

Nephritic (a.) Alt. of Nephritical

Nephritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

Nephritical (a.) Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.

Nephritical (a.) Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine.

Nephritic (n.) A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Nephritis (n.) An inflammation of the kidneys.

nephrolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi.

Nephrology (n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

Nephrostome (n.) The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Nephrotomy (n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

Nepotal (a.) Of or relating to a nephew.

Nepotic (a.) Of or pertaining to npotism.

Nepotism (n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.

Nepotist (n.) One who practices nepotism.

Neptune (n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

Neptune (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.

Neptunian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.

Neptunian (a.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.

Neptunian (n.) Alt. of Neptunist

Neptunist (n.) One who adopts the neptunian theory.

Neptunicentric (a.) As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.

Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.

Ner (adv. & a.) nearer.

Nere () Were not.

Nereids (pl. ) of Nereid

Nereides (pl. ) of Nereid

Nereid (n.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Nereid (n.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.

Nereidian (n.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.

Nereides (pl. ) of Nereis

Nereis (n.) A Nereid. See Nereid.

Nereis (n.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.

Nereites (n. pl.) Fossil tracks of annelids.

Nereocystis (n.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.

Nerfling (n.) The id.

Nerita (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.

Nerite (n.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

Neritina (n.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.

Nero (n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.

Neroli (n.) An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.

Nerre (adv. & a.) Nearer.

Nervate (a.) Nerved.

Nervation (n.) The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.

Nerve (n.) One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

Nerve (n.) A sinew or a tendon.

Nerve (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.

Nerve (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.

Nerve (n.) Audacity; assurance.

Nerve (n.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.

Nerve (n.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.

Nerved (imp. & p. p.) of Nerve

Nerving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nerve

Nerve (v. t.) To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Nerved (a.) Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.

Nerved (a.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.

Nerveless (a.) Destitute of nerves.

Nerveless (a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.

Nervelessness (n.) The state of being nerveless.

Nerve-shaken (a.) Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Nervimotion (n.) The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.

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