(n.) One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.

(adv.) With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

(adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.

(adv.) With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly.

(adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.

(adv.) Sparingly; parsimoniously.

(n.) The quality or state of being nasal.

(n.) Same as Nocturne.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed to phenomenal.

(n.) The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted and understood; -- so used in the philosophy of Kant and his followers.

(a.) Having the shape of a nose.

(n.) An alkaloid found in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

(a.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.

(n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.

(n.) One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

(n.) A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

(pl. ) of Notary

(n.) The act or practice of recording anything by marks, figures, or characters.

(n.) Any particular system of characters, symbols, or abbreviated expressions used in art or science, to express briefly technical facts, quantities, etc. Esp., the system of figures, letters, and signs used in arithmetic and algebra to express number, quantity, or operations.

(n.) Literal or etymological signification.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Notch

(n.) The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

(n.) The small hollow, or hollows, cut; a notch or notches.

(n.) A method of joining timbers, scantling, etc., by notching them, as at the ends, and overlapping or interlocking the notched portions.

(n.) A method of excavating, as in a bank, by a series of cuttings side by side. See also Gulleting.

(pl. ) of Napery

(n.) A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

(a.) Same as Jessant.

(a.) Destitute of a nose.

(n.) A systematic arrangement, or classification, of diseases.

(n.) That branch of medical science which treats of diseases, or of the classification of diseases.

(n.) Same as Nostalgia.

(pl. ) of Nostrum

(n.) Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor.

(a.) Without nails; having no nails.

(n.) the radical NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

(n.) The group NO2, usually called the nitro group.

(v. t.) To make noble; to nobiliate.

(n.) The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence.

(n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred.

(n.) Those who are noble; the collictive body of nobles or titled persons in a stste; the aristocratic and patrician class; the peerage; as, the English nobility.

(imp. & p. p.) of Notify

(a.) Consisting of, or conveying, notions or ideas; expressing abstract conceptions.

(a.) Existing in idea only; visionary; whimsical.

(a.) Given to foolish or visionary expectations; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.

(n.) An apparatus for smoking tobacco. It has a long flexible tube, and the smoke is drawn through water.

(a.) Formed like the nose.

(a.) Norwegian.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

(n.) A nonvocal consonant.

(n.) Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.

(n.) A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.

(n.) The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy.

(adv.) In a normal manner.

(pl. ) of Norseman

(n.) Nurture; education; culture; bringing up.

(n.) Distance northward from any point of departure or of reckoning, measured on a meridian; -- opposed to southing.

(n.) The distance of any heavenly body from the equator northward; north declination.

(a.) Not toxic.

(n.) The time of noon; midday.

(v. t.) To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.

(n.) That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

(n.) Trifles; things of no importance.

(a.) Not vocal; destitute of tone.

(a.) Not lying in one plane; -- said of certain curves.

(n.) A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

(n.) A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

(v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

(n.) A nomad.

(n.) The state of being a nomad.

(v. i.) To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herds for the sake of finding pasturage.

(n.) A province or territorial division of a kingdom, under the rule of a nomarch, as in modern Greece; a nome.

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

(v. t.) To call; to entitle; to denominate.

(v. t.) To set down in express terms; to state.

(v. t.) To name, or designate by name, for an office or place; to appoint; esp., to name as a candidate for an election, choice, or appointment; to propose by name, or offer the name of, as a candidate for an office or place.

(a.) Loud; clamorous.

(n.) A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of this class have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth.

(n.) Adverse action of will; unwillingness; -- opposed to volition.

(n.) The state of being unwilling; nolition.

(n.) The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness.

(n.) A knot; a node.

(a.) Alt. of Nodulous

(a.) Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

(n.) An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.

(n.) State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

(n.) The science of law; legislation.

(n.) The science of the laws of the mind; rational psychology.

(a.) Not adult; immature.

(imp. & p. p.) of Narrow

(a.) Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.

(pl. ) of Nobleman

(n.) One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

(n.) Dignity; greatness; noble birth or condition.

(n.) The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females.

(pl. ) of Nobody

(n.) A night piece, or serenade. The name is now used for a certain graceful and expressive form of instrumental composition, as the nocturne for orchestra in Mendelsohn's "Midsummer-Night's Dream" music.

(n.) Harm; injury; detriment.

(a.) Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

(a.) Prepared with nitrate of silver.

(n.) One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

(n.) A colorless nonmetallic element, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume. It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva.

(pl. ) of Nimbus

(a.) Nine times repeated.

(n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

(a.) Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

(pl. ) of Ninety

(a.) Infamous; dastardly.

(a.) Nidorous.

(a.) Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.

(a.) Nestling, as a bird in itss nest.

(a.) Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest.

(v. i.) To make a nest, as a bird.

(n.) One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.

(n.) The quality or state of being nigh.

(n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.

(n.) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

(n.) Nothingness; a state of being nothing.

(n.) The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

(n.) A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.

(n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.

(a.) Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.

(n.) A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.

(n.) A potion of spirit drank at bedtime.

(a.) Of or pertaining to night.

(n.) A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.

(pl. ) of Nightman

(n.) One whose business is emptying privies by night.

(v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

(n.) Tobacco.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Niggle

(n.) Quality or state of being nice.

(n.) A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.

(a.) Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.

(a.) Undistinguished; not noted or famous.

(a.) Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.

(a.) Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.

(a.) Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.

(n.) A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene.

(imp. & p. p.) of Narrate

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nibble

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Notice

(n.) A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

(n.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis.

(n.) Inflammation of a nerve.

(n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

(n.) A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.

(pl. ) of Nicety

(v. t.) To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

(v. t.) To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.

(n.) Innovation.

(n.) A substitution of a new debt for an old one; also, the remodeling of an old obligation.

(n.) Innovation.

(n.) An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

(n.) A writer of news.

(n.) A writer of a novel or novels.

(v. i.) To innovate.

(v. t.) To innovate.

(v. t.) To put into the form of novels; to represent by fiction.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the number nine.

(n.) The number of nine units; nine, collectively.

(a.) Done or recurring every ninth year.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a stepmother; suitable to, or in the manner of, a stepmother.

(n.) A nebula.

(n.) Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.

(n.) A slight spot on the cornea.

(n.) A cloudy object or appearance in urine.

(v. t.) To cloud.

(n.) The state of being marriageable.

(a.) Alt. of Nubilous

(a.) Cloudy.

(n.) A catkin or ament; the flower cluster of the hazel, pine, willow, and the like.

(n.) See Nucleus, 3 (a).

(a.) Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.

(a.) Having a nucleus; nucleated.

(v. t.) To gather, as about a nucleus or center.

(n.) The nucleus within a nucleus; nucleolus.

(pl. ) of Nucleolus

(n.) The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

(a.) Having the stems leafless.

(pl. ) of Nudity

(n.) Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.

(a.) Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

(a.) Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual.

(n.) That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

(n.) A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

(adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.

(n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.

(a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

(n.) An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.

(conj.) Nevertheless.

(a.) Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticidae.

(adv.) By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.

(n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

(n.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

(n.) An advocate of nativism.

(imp. & p. p.) of Number

(n.) One who numbers.

(n.) The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

(n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

(a.) Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.

(v.) To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

(n.) One who deals in numbers.

(a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.

(a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.

(n.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

(n.) One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.

(v. t.) To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature.

(n.) Shipwreck; ruin.

(n.) A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight.

(n.) A show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions.

(n.) The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

(n.) A substance which produces nausea.

(v. i.) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.

(v. t.) To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.

(v. t.) To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe.

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.

(a.) Alt. of Nummulary

(n.) A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

(v. i.) A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.

(n.) One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio.

(n.) A nundinal letter.

(a.) Alt. of Nundinary

(a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

(n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

(n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.

(n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

(n.) Nautical skill or experience.

(v. i.) To joirney by water; to go in a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail.

(pl. ) of Nuptial

(n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.

(imp. & p. p.) of Nurture

(v. t.) To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.

(v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.

(n.) The act of nodding.

(n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

(n.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.

(n.) Circumnutation.

(n.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmaea), and others, are American.

(a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.

(n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth.

(n.) The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

(n.) A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd.

(n.) The state or quality of being neat.

(n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.

(n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.

(n.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nuzzle

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.

(a.) Relating to nymphs; ladylike.

(v. t.) To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.

(a.) Nebulous; cloudy.

(a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.

(n.) A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

(n.) A rope or chain fitted around the masthead to hold hanging blocks for jibs and stays.

(n.) Alt. of Neckmould

(n.) A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.

(n.) An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod.

(n.) The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals.

(n.) A post-mortem examination or inspection; an autopsy. See Autopsy.

(a.) Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone.

(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.

(n.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.

(a.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

(a.) Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar.

(a.) Having no need.

(a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.

(a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.

(n.) Something needed or wanted.

(n.) Outfit; necessary luggage.

(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.

(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.

(a.) Denying; implying, containing, or asserting denial, negation or refusal; returning the answer no to an inquiry or request; refusing assent; as, a negative answer; a negative opinion; -- opposed to affirmative.

(a.) Not positive; without affirmative statement or demonstration; indirect; consisting in the absence of something; privative; as, a negative argument; a negative morality; negative criticism.

(a.) Asserting absence of connection between a subject and a predicate; as, a negative proposition.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed.

(a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative.

(n.) A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.

(n.) A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.

(n.) The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.

(n.) That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.

(n.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

(n.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.

(v. t.) To prove unreal or intrue; to disprove.

(v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.

(v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.

(a.) Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative.

(n. pl.) Stringed instruments.

(n.) An easy, unceremonious attire; undress; also, a kind of easy robe or dressing gown worn by women.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

(a.) Uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

(n.) A disease seated in the nerves.

(n.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.

(n.) Neuralgia.

(n.) A neuropodous animal.

(n. pl.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neigh

(n.) A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

(n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

(n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.

(a.) Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.

(v. t.) To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.

(v. t.) To associate intimately with.

(v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.

(a.) Having the form of threads; fibrous.

(n.) A fibrous variety of brucite.

(a. & n.) Same as Nematoid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Nematoidea.

(n.) One of the Nematoidea. see Illustration in Appendix.

(a. & n.) Nemertean.

(n.) The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.

(n.) Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

(a.) Alt. of Neological

(n.) The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

(n.) A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a pre existing form.

(n.) A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.

(n.) A novice; a tyro; a beginner in anything.

(n.) A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

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

(a.) Alt. of Neoterical

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

(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.

(n. pl.) Giants.

(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.

(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.

(n.) One who practices nepotism.

(pl. ) of Nereid

(pl. ) of Nereis

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nestle

(n.) A young bird which has not abandoned the nest.

(n.) A nest; a receptacle.

(a.) Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nettle

(n.) A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.

(n.) The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.

(p. pr. & a.) Stinging; irritating.

(n.) See Knickknack.

() (/ / /). (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.

(n. sing. & pl.) A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

(n.) Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

(n.) That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.

(n.) A book in which notes or memorandums are written.

(n.) A book in which notes of hand are registered.

(adv.) In these days; at the present time.