(a.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

(a.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

(n.) An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

(n.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.

(n.) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

(n.) One of the nasal bones.

(n.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

(n.) The back.

() Would not.

() A combining form denoting pertaining to, or connected with, the nose; as, nasofrontal.

(n.) One who names, or calls by name.

(n.) Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. See Rhea.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

(n.) A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.

(n.) A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

(v. t.) To cut or make notches in ; to indent; also, to score by notches; as, to notch a stick.

(v. t.) To fit the notch of (an arrow) to the string.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nose

(a.) Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed.

(imp. & p. p.) of Name

(pl. ) of Navus

(a.) Full of nits.

(a.) Shining; elegant; spruce.

(a.) Abounding with snow; snowy.

(a.) Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable.

(n. pl.) The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.

(n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

(n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth.

(n.) A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

(n.) That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

(n.) The lowest point; the time of greatest depression.

(n.) The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

(a.) Irritable; touchy.

(n.) A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

(n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.

(n.) Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel.

(n.) One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.

(n.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.

(a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks.

(a.) Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword.

(a.) Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless.

(a.) Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare.

(a.) Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain.

(a.) Mere; simple; plain.

(a.) Without pubescence; as, a naked leaf or stem; bare, or not covered by the customary parts, as a flower without a perianth, a stem without leaves, seeds without a pericarp, buds without bud scales.

(a.) Not having the full complement of tones; -- said of a chord of only two tones, which requires a third tone to be sounded with them to make the combination pleasing to the ear; as, a naked fourth or fifth.

(n.) Same as Nacre.

(n.) A kind of kettledrum.

(n.) The gavial.

(n.) A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

(v. t.) To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare.

(n.) A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originally Mexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it is collected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactaceae.

(n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

(n.) The cormorant.

(n.) A silly fellow; a ninny.

(n.) The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce.

(n.) The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

(n.) A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

(n. pl.) The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.

(n. pl.) The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.

(n. pl.) The hour of dinner; the noonday meal.

(n.) Alt. of Nonetto

(n.) One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.

(a.) Roving; nomadic.

() p. p. of Nim.

(a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.

(n.) Nomic spelling.

(n. pl.) Waste and knots of wool removed by the comb; combings.

(v. t.) To anoint.

(n.) Sound of any kind.

(n.) Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.

(n.) Loud or continuous talk; general talk or discussion; rumor; report.

(n.) Music, in general; a concert; also, a company of musicians; a band.

(v. i.) To sound; to make a noise.

(v. t.) To spread by rumor or report.

(v. t.) To disturb with noise.

(superl.) Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

(superl.) Full of noise.

(a.) Of the nature of, or relating to, a node; as, a nodal point.

(n.) A simpleton; a fool.

(n.) Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus.

(n.) The arctic fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis). Sometimes also applied to other sea birds.

(n.) An old game at cards.

(n.) A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle.

(n.) An inverted pendulum consisting of a short vertical flat spring which supports a rod having a bob at the top; -- used for detecting and measuring slight horizontal vibrations of a body to which it is attached.

(n.) See Niter.

(adv.) Of noble extraction; as, nobly born or descended.

(adv.) In a noble manner; with greatness of soul; heroically; with magnanimity; as, a deed nobly done.

(adv.) Splendidly; magnificently.

(n.) A striving; an effort; a conatus.

(n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

(n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron.

(a.) Bright; lustrous; shining.

(a.) Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.

(pl. ) of Nimbus

(n.) A fool; a simpleton.

(a.) Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.

(a.) Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

(n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.

(n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.

(n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.

(n.) The magpie.

(n.) Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking.

(n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

(n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.

(n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

(n.) A trifle.

(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.

(n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.

(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.

(n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.

(n.) The period after the close of life; death.

(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.

(p. p.) of Nim

(a.) Well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as, a noted author, or traveler.

(n.) One who takes notice.

(n.) An annotator.

(n.) The chigoe.

(n.) Nothing.

(adv.) Lately; recently.

(adv.) Anew; afresh; freshly.

(a.) Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.

(imp. & p. p.) of Note

(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.

(n.) Connection; tie.

(v. t.) To name; to mention; to utter.

(adv.) Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.

(adv.) In no degree; not in the least; not.

(a.) Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.

(a.) That which is new or unusual; a novelty.

(a.) News; fresh tidings.

(a.) A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.

(a.) A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.

(adv.) Alt. of Noways

(n.) See Nouch.

(a.) Knotted; tied in a knot, as a serpent.

(n.) A cordial of brandy, etc., flavored with the kernel of the bitter almond, or of the peach stone, etc.

(n.) The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

(n.) See Juglone.

(v. t.) To touch gently, as with the elbow, in order to call attention or convey intimation.

(n.) A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.

(n. pl.) Trifles; jests.

(superl.) Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

(superl.) Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky.

(superl.) Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy.

(n.) The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.

(n. pl.) The buttocks.

(n. pl.) The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

(n. pl.) The umbones of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A dolt; a blockhead.

(n.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.

(n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.

(n.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.

(n.) A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.

(n.) Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.

(n.) A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

(a.) Abounding in nuts.

(a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

(n.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters.

(n.) A lovely young girl; a maiden; a damsel.

(n.) The pupa of an insect; a chrysalis.

(n.) Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

(adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.

(superl.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.

(superl.) Necessary; requiste.

(n.) Alt. of Neele

(n.) A needle.

(adv.) a contraction of Never.

(v. i.) To sneeze.

(n.) Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that is continuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any one point of the portion to any other point of the portion without leaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and some have two.

(v. i.) To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.

(v. i.) To scoff or sneer; to jeer.

(n.) The cry of a horse; a whinny.

(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.

(n.) A sinew or a tendon.

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

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

(n.) Audacity; assurance.

(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.

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

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

(superl. -) Strong; sinewy.