Nebular (a.) Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Nebulated (a.) Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.
nebulation (n.) The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
Nebule (n.) A little cloud; a cloud.
Nebule (a.) Alt. of Nebuly
Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
Nebulization (n.) The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.
Nebulize (v. t.) To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
Nebulizer (n.) An atomizer.
Nebulose (a.) Nebulous; cloudy.
Nebulosity (n.) The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Nebulosity (n.) The stuff of which a nebula is formed.
Nebulosity (n.) A nebula.
Nebulous (a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.
Nebulous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
Nebuly (n.) A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE
Necessarian (n.) An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
Necessarian (a.) Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
Necessarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.
Necessarily (adv.) In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
Necessariness (n.) The quality of being necessary.
Necessary (a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Necessary (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
Necessary (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Necessaries (pl. ) of Necessary
Necessary (n.) A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Necessary (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
Necessary (n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.
Necessitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.
Necessitarian (n.) One who holds to the doctrine of necessitarianism.
Necessitarianism (n.) The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism.
Necessitated (imp. & p. p.) of Necessitate
Necessitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Necessitate
Necessitate (v. t.) To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.
Necessitate (v. t.) To reduce to the necessity of; to force; to compel.
Necessitattion (n.) The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion.
Necessitied (a.) In a state of want; necessitous.
Necessitous (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.
Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances.
Necessitude (n.) Necessitousness; want.
Necessitude (n.) Necessary connection or relation.
Necessities (pl. ) of Necessity
Necessity (n.) The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
Necessity (n.) The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
Necessity (n.) That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
Necessity (n.) That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
Necessity (n.) The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
Neck (n.) The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.
Neck (n.) Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or resembling the neck of an animal
Neck (n.) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of a fruit, as a gourd.
Neck (n.) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
Neck (n.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar instrument, which extends from the head to the body, and on which is the finger board or fret board.
Neck (n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft.
Neck (n.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant arises from the root.
Necked (imp. & p. p.) of Neck
Necking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neck
Neck (v. t.) To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.
Neck (v. t. & i.) To kiss and caress amorously.
Neckar nut () See Nicker nut.
Neckband (n.) A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.
Neckcloth (n.) A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
Necked (a.) Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.
Necked (a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.
Neckerchief (n.) A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.
Necking (n.) Same as Neckmold.
Necklace (n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.
Necklace (n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.
necklaced (a.) Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace.
neckland (n.) A neck of land.
necklet (n.) A necklace.
Neckmold (n.) Alt. of Neckmould
Neckmould (n.) A small convex molding surrounding a column at the jinction of the shaft and capital.
Neckplate (n.) See Gorget, 1 and 2.
Necktie (n.) A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.
Neckwear (n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.
Neckweed (n.) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.
Neckweed (n.) The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals.
Necrobiosis (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.
Necrobiotic (a.) Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.
Necrolatry (n.) The worship of the dead; manes worship.
Necrolite (n.) Same as Necronite.
Necrologic (a.) Alt. of Necrological
Necrological (a.) Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.
Necrologist (n.) One who gives an account of deaths.
Necrologies (pl. ) of Necrology
Necrology (n.) An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.
Necromancer (n.) One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.
Necromancy (n.) The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art.
Necromantic (n.) Conjuration.
Necromantic (a.) Alt. of Necromantical
Necromantical (a.) Of or pertaining to necromancy; performed by necromancy.
Necronite (n.) Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.
Necrophagan (a.) Eating carrion.
Necrophagan (n.) Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.
Necrophagous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.
Necrophobia (n.) An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.
Necrophore (n.) Any one of numerous species of beetles of the genus Necrophorus and allied genera; -- called also burying beetle, carrion beetle, sexton beetle.
Necropolises (pl. ) of Necropolis
Necropolis (n.) A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard.
Necropsy (n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.