Nastiness (n.) The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
Nasturtion (n.) Same as Nasturtium.
Nasturtium (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.
Nasturtium (n.) Any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads.
Nasty (superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Nasty (superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.
Nasty (superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.
Nasute (a.) Having a nice sense of smell.
Nasute (a.) Critically nice; captious.
Nasutness (n.) Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness.
Nat (adv.) Not.
Nat () Not at; nor at.
Natal (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.
Natal (a.) Presiding over nativity; as, natal Jove.
Natalitial (a.) Alt. of Natalitious
Natalitious (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity.
Nataloin (n.) A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.
Natal plum () The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).
Natals (n. pl.) One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.
Natant (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.
Natant (a.) Placed horizontally across the field, as if swimmimg toward the dexter side; said of all sorts of fishes except the flying fish.
Natantly (adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.
Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Natatores (n. pl.) The swimming birds.
Natatorial (a.) Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.
Natatorious (a.) Adapted for swimming; -- said of the legs of certain insects.
Natatorium (n.) A swimming bath.
Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.
Natch (n.) The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.
Natchez (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.
Natchnee (n.) An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.
Nates (n. pl.) The buttocks.
Nates (n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.
Nates (n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.
Nath () hath not.
Nathless (conj.) Nevertheless.
Nathmore (adv.) Not the more; never the more.
Naticas (pl. ) of Natica
NaticAe (pl. ) of Natica
Natica (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
Naticoid (a.) Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticidae.
Nation (n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
Nation (n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
Nation (n.) Family; lineage.
Nation (n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
Nation (n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
Nation (n.) A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
National (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.
National (a.) Attached to one's own country or nation.
Nationalism (n.) The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.
Nationalism (n.) An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation.
Nationalism (n.) National independence; the principles of the Nationalists.
Nationalist (n.) One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.
Nationalities (pl. ) of Nationality
Nationality (n.) The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
Nationality (n.) The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.
Nationality (n.) A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation.
Nationality (n.) Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.
Nationality (n.) The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.
Nationalization (n.) The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.
Nationalized (imp. & p. p.) of Nationalize
Nationalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nationalize
Nationalize (v. t.) To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.
Nationally (adv.) In a national manner or way; as a nation.
Nationalness (n.) The quality or state of being national; nationality.
Native (a.) Arising by birth; having an origin; born.
Native (a.) Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.
Native (a.) Born in the region in which one lives; as, a native inhabitant, race; grown or originating in the region where used or sold; not foreign or imported; as, native oysters, or strawberries.
Native (a.) Original; constituting the original substance of anything; as, native dust.
Native (a.) Conferred by birth; derived from origin; born with one; inherent; inborn; not acquired; as, native genius, cheerfulness, simplicity, rights, etc.
Native (a.) Naturally related; cognate; connected (with).
Native (a.) Found in nature uncombined with other elements; as, native silver.
Native (a.) Found in nature; not artificial; as native sodium chloride.
Native (n.) One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France.
Native (n.) Any of the live stock found in a region, as distinguished from such as belong to pure and distinct imported breeds.
Natively (adv.) By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
Nativeness (n.) The quality or state of being native.
Nativism (n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
Nativism (n.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
Nativist (n.) An advocate of nativism.
Nativistic (a.) Relating to nativism.
Nativies (pl. ) of Nativity
Nativity (n.) The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
Nativity (n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
Nativity (n.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.
Natka (a.) A species of shrike.
Natrium (n.) The technical name for sodium.
Natrolite (n.) A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.
Natron (n.) Native sodium carbonate.
Natter (v. i.) To find fault; to be peevish.
Natterjack (n.) A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.
Natty (a.) Neat; tidy; spruce.
Natural (a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
Natural (a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
Natural (a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
Natural (a.) Conformed to truth or reality
Natural (a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
Natural (a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
Natural (a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
Natural (a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.