Necroscopic (a.) Alt. of Necroscopical
Necroscopical (a.) Or or relating to post-mortem examinations.
Necrose (v. t. & i.) To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.
Necrosed (a.) Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone.
Necrosis (n.) Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.
Necrosis (n.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
Necrotic (a.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Nectar (n.) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
Nectar (n.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Nectareal (a.) Nectareous.
Nectareal (a.) Of or pertaining to a nectary.
Nectarean (a.) Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.
Nectared (a.) Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar.
Nectareous (a.) Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean.
Nectarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
Nectaried (a.) Having a nectary.
Nectariferous (a.) Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.
Nectarine (a.) Nectareous.
Nectarine (n.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
Nectarized (imp. & p. p.) of Nectarize
Nectarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nectarize
Nectarize (v. t.) To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten.
Nectarous (a.) Nectareous.
Nectaries (pl. ) of Nectary
Nectary (n.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
Nectocalyces (pl. ) of Nectocalyx
Nectocalyx (n.) The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.
Nectocalyx (n.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.
Nectosac (n.) Alt. of Nectosack
Nectosack (n.) The cavity of a nectocalyx.
Nectostem (n.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.
Nedder (n.) An adder.
Neddies (pl. ) of Neddy
Neddy (n.) A pet name for a donkey.
Nee (p. p., fem.) Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.
Need (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
Need (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
Need (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
Needed (imp. & p. p.) of Need
Needing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Need
Need (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
Need (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
Need (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.
Needer (n.) One who needs anything.
Needful (a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.
Needful (a.) Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.
Needily (adv.) In a needy condition or manner; necessarily.
Neediness (n.) The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
Needle (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing.
Needle (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
Needle (n.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
Needle (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
Needle (v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Needlebook (n.) A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
Needlecase (n.) A case to keep needles.
Needlefish (n.) The European great pipefich (Siphostoma, / Syngnathus, acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.
Needlefish (n.) The garfish.
needlefuls (pl. ) of needleful
needleful (n.) As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
Needle-pointed (a.) Pointed as needles.
Needler (n.) One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles.
Needless (a.) Having no need.
Needless (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
Needless (a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.
Needlestone (n.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
Needlewomen (pl. ) of Needlewoman
Needlewoman (n.) A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
Needlework (n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.
Needlework (n.) The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework of some houses.
Needly (a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.
Needly (adv.) Necessarily; of necessity.
Needment (n.) Something needed or wanted.
Needment (n.) Outfit; necessary luggage.
Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.
Needscost (adv.) Of necessity.
Needsly (adv.) Of necessity.
Needy (superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Needy (superl.) Necessary; requiste.
Neeld (n.) Alt. of Neele
Neele (n.) A needle.
Neelghau (n.) See Nylghau.
Neem tree () An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and M. Azedarach. See Margosa.
Neer (adv. & a.) Nearer.
Ne'er (adv.) a contraction of Never.
Neesed (imp. & p. p.) of Neese
Neesing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neese
Neese (v. i.) To sneeze.
Neesing (n.) Sneezing.
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.
Nef (n.) The nave of a church.
Nefand (a.) Alt. of Nefandous
Nefandous (a.) Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.
Nefarious (adv.) Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Nefasch (n.) Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.
Nefast (a.) Wicked.
Negation (adv.) The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.
Negation (adv.) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.