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   Coati \Co*a"ti\ (k[osl]*[aum]"t[esl] or k[osl]*[amac]"t[icr]),
      n. [From the native name: cf. F. coati.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A mammal of tropical America of the genus {Nasua}, allied to
      the raccoon, but with a longer body, tail, and nose.
  
      Note: The red coati ({N. socialis}), called also {coati
               mondi}, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown
               coati ({N. narica}) is found in Surinam and Brazil.

English Dictionary: (nrrische) by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Questionnaire \[d8]Ques`tion`naire"\, n.; pl. {-naires} (F.
      [?]). [F.]
      = {Questionary}, above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Narceine \Nar"ce*ine\, n. [L. narce numbness, torpor, Gr.
      [?][?][?][?][?]: cf. F. narc[82][8b]ne.] (Chem.)
      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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Narrow \Nar"row\, n.; pl. {Narrows}.
      A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake,
      or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually
      in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor.
  
               Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous
               narrow.                                                   --Gladstone.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nerka \Ner"ka\, n. [Russ. niarka, prob. fr. native name.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      The most important salmon of Alaska ({Oncorhinchus nerka}),
      ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to
      Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also {red salmon},
      {redfish}, {blueback}, and {sawqui}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redfish \Red"fish`\ (r[ecr]d"f[icr]sh`), n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also
            {nerka}. See {Blueback}
      (b) .
      (b) The rosefish.
      (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus
            pulcher}); -- called also {fathead}.
      (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under
            {Drumfish}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nerka \Ner"ka\, n. [Russ. niarka, prob. fr. native name.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      The most important salmon of Alaska ({Oncorhinchus nerka}),
      ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to
      Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also {red salmon},
      {redfish}, {blueback}, and {sawqui}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Redfish \Red"fish`\ (r[ecr]d"f[icr]sh`), n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The blueback salmon of the North Pacific; -- called also
            {nerka}. See {Blueback}
      (b) .
      (b) The rosefish.
      (c) A large California labroid food fish ({Trochocopus
            pulcher}); -- called also {fathead}.
      (d) The red bass, red drum, or drumfish. See the Note under
            {Drumfish}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   New Year's Day \New" Year's` Day"\
      the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January.
      Often colloquially abbreviated to {New year's} or {new year}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bonbonni8are \[d8]Bon`bon`ni[8a]re"\, n.; pl. {-ni[8a]res}.
      [F.]
      A small fancy box or dish for bonbons.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Norice \Nor"ice\, n.
      Nurse. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Norse \Norse\, a. [Dan. Norsk, fr. nord north. See {North}.]
      Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language
      spoken by its inhabitants.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Norse \Norse\, n.
      The Norse language.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nourice \Nour"ice\, n.
      A nurse. [Obs.] --Spenser.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nourish \Nour"ish\, v. i.
      1. To promote growth; to furnish nutriment.
  
                     Grains and roots nourish more than their leaves.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
      2. To gain nourishment. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nourish \Nour"ish\, n.
      A nurse. [Obs.] --Hoolland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nourish \Nour"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nourished}; p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Nourishing}.] [OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir,
      nurrir, norir, F. norrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. {Nurse},
      {Nutriment}, and see {-ish}.]
      1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which
            increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to
            furnish with nutriment.
  
                     He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
                                                                              --Is. xliv.
                                                                              14.
  
      2. To support; to maintain.
  
                     Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band. --Shak.
  
      3. To supply the means of support and increase to; to
            encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish
            the virtues. [bd]Nourish their contentions.[b8] --Hooker.
  
      4. To cherish; to comfort.
  
                     Ye have nourished your hearts.            --James v. 5.
  
      5. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to
            promote the growth of in attainments. --Chaucer.
  
                     Nourished up in the words of faith.   --1 Tim. iv.
                                                                              6.
  
      Syn: To cherish; feed; supply. See {Nurture}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Nuraghe \[d8]Nu*ra"ghe\, n.; It. pl. {-ghi}. Also Nuragh
   \Nu"ragh\, etc.[It. dial. (Sardinia) nuraghe).]
      One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in
      Sardinia.
  
               The so-called nuraghi, conical monuments with truncated
               summits, 30-60 ft. in height, 35-100 ft. in diameter at
               the base, constructed sometimes of hewn, and sometimes
               of unhewn blocks of stone without mortar. They are
               situated either on isolated eminences or on the slopes
               of the mountains, seldom on the plains, and usually
               occur in groups. They generally contain two (in some
               rare instances three) conically vaulted chambers, one
               above the other, and a spiral staircase constructed in
               the thick walls ascends to the upper stories.
                                                                              --Baedeker.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mink \Mink\, n. [Cf. 2d {Minx}.] (Zo[94]l.)
      A carnivorous mammal of the genus {Putorius}, allied to the
      weasel. The European mink is {Putorius lutreola}. The common
      American mink ({P. vison}) varies from yellowish brown to
      black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also {minx}, {nurik},
      and {vison}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nursed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Nursing}.]
      1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as:
            (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend,
                  as an infant.
            (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an
                  invalid; to attend upon.
  
                           Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                           Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed
                           his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden.
  
      2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid
            condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants,
            animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by,
            attention. [bd]To nurse the saplings tall.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so
                     uncontrolled a dominion?                     --Locke.
  
      3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
            as, to nurse our national resources.
  
      4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope.
  
      {To nurse billiard balls}, to strike them gently and so as to
            keep them in good position during a series of caroms.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nurse \Nurse\, n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice,
      norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop.,
      fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis,
      nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See {Nourish}, and cf.
      {Nutritious}.]
      1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or
            brings up; as:
            (a) A woman who has the care of young children;
                  especially, one who suckles an infant not her own.
            (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the
                  sick or infirm.
  
      2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
            trains, fosters, or the like.
  
                     The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
      3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real
            commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
                  cercari[91] by asexual reproduction. See {Cercaria},
                  and {Redia}.
            (b) Either one of the nurse sharks.
  
      {Nurse shark}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A large arctic shark ({Somniosus microcephalus}),
                  having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also
                  {sleeper shark}, and {ground shark}.
            (b) A large shark ({Ginglymostoma cirratum}), native of
                  the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal
                  fins situated behind the ventral fins.
  
      {To put to nurse}, [or] {To put out to nurse}, to send away
            to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
  
      {Wet nurse}, {Dry nurse}. See {Wet nurse}, and {Dry nurse},
            in the Vocabulary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Redia \[d8]Re"di*a\ (r?"d?*?), n.; pl. L. {Redi[91]}
      (-[emac]), E. {Redias} (-[?]z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the
      sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in
      turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of
      redi[91], or else cercari[91] within its own body. Called
      also {proscolex}, and {nurse}. See Illustration in Appendix.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nursed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Nursing}.]
      1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as:
            (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend,
                  as an infant.
            (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an
                  invalid; to attend upon.
  
                           Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                           Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed
                           his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden.
  
      2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid
            condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants,
            animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by,
            attention. [bd]To nurse the saplings tall.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so
                     uncontrolled a dominion?                     --Locke.
  
      3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase;
            as, to nurse our national resources.
  
      4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope.
  
      {To nurse billiard balls}, to strike them gently and so as to
            keep them in good position during a series of caroms.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nurse \Nurse\, n. [OE. nourse, nurice, norice, OF. nurrice,
      norrice, nourrice, F. nourrice, fr. L. nutricia nurse, prop.,
      fem. of nutricius that nourishes; akin to nutrix, -icis,
      nurse, fr. nutrire to nourish. See {Nourish}, and cf.
      {Nutritious}.]
      1. One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or
            brings up; as:
            (a) A woman who has the care of young children;
                  especially, one who suckles an infant not her own.
            (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the
                  sick or infirm.
  
      2. One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow,
            trains, fosters, or the like.
  
                     The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
      3. (Naut.) A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real
            commander when the captain is unfit for his place.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces
                  cercari[91] by asexual reproduction. See {Cercaria},
                  and {Redia}.
            (b) Either one of the nurse sharks.
  
      {Nurse shark}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A large arctic shark ({Somniosus microcephalus}),
                  having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also
                  {sleeper shark}, and {ground shark}.
            (b) A large shark ({Ginglymostoma cirratum}), native of
                  the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal
                  fins situated behind the ventral fins.
  
      {To put to nurse}, [or] {To put out to nurse}, to send away
            to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
  
      {Wet nurse}, {Dry nurse}. See {Wet nurse}, and {Dry nurse},
            in the Vocabulary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Redia \[d8]Re"di*a\ (r?"d?*?), n.; pl. L. {Redi[91]}
      (-[emac]), E. {Redias} (-[?]z). [NL.; of uncertain origin.]
      (Zo[94]l.)
      A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the
      sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It in
      turn produces, in the same way, either another generation of
      redi[91], or else cercari[91] within its own body. Called
      also {proscolex}, and {nurse}. See Illustration in Appendix.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Narka, KS (city, FIPS 49350)
      Location: 39.96023 N, 97.42703 W
      Population (1990): 113 (62 housing units)
      Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 66960

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Narrows, KY
      Zip code(s): 42358
   Narrows, VA (town, FIPS 54904)
      Location: 37.33138 N, 80.80909 W
      Population (1990): 2082 (929 housing units)
      Area: 3.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 24124

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Ross, IN (town, FIPS 53550)
      Location: 39.96386 N, 86.71367 W
      Population (1990): 331 (129 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 47968

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Russia, NY
      Zip code(s): 12964

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New York, NY (city, FIPS 51000)
      Location: 40.66980 N, 73.94385 W
      Population (1990): 7322564 (2992169 housing units)
      Area: 800.2 sq km (land), 350.8 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 10001, 10002, 10003, 10005, 10006, 10007, 10009, 10010, 10011, 10012, 10013, 10014, 10016, 10017, 10018, 10019, 10020, 10021, 10022, 10023, 10024, 10025, 10026, 10027, 10028, 10029, 10030, 10031, 10032, 10033, 10034, 10035, 10036, 10037, 10038, 10039, 10040, 10044, 10128, 10280

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Newark, AR (city, FIPS 49010)
      Location: 35.70534 N, 91.44286 W
      Population (1990): 1159 (486 housing units)
      Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 72562
   Newark, CA (city, FIPS 50916)
      Location: 37.51927 N, 122.03050 W
      Population (1990): 37861 (12284 housing units)
      Area: 36.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 94560
   Newark, DE (city, FIPS 50670)
      Location: 39.67660 N, 75.75770 W
      Population (1990): 25098 (7860 housing units)
      Area: 22.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 19702, 19711, 19713
   Newark, IL (village, FIPS 52103)
      Location: 41.53714 N, 88.58070 W
      Population (1990): 840 (309 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 60541
   Newark, MD
      Zip code(s): 21841
   Newark, MO (town, FIPS 51662)
      Location: 39.99444 N, 91.97308 W
      Population (1990): 82 (63 housing units)
      Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 63458
   Newark, NJ (city, FIPS 51000)
      Location: 40.72410 N, 74.17324 W
      Population (1990): 275221 (102473 housing units)
      Area: 61.7 sq km (land), 5.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 07102, 07103, 07104, 07105, 07106, 07107, 07108, 07112, 07114
   Newark, NY (village, FIPS 49891)
      Location: 43.04190 N, 77.09429 W
      Population (1990): 9849 (3955 housing units)
      Area: 13.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 14513
   Newark, OH (city, FIPS 54040)
      Location: 40.06766 N, 82.42337 W
      Population (1990): 44389 (18967 housing units)
      Area: 46.7 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43055
   Newark, TX (city, FIPS 50772)
      Location: 32.99489 N, 97.47079 W
      Population (1990): 651 (273 housing units)
      Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 76071

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Norco, CA (city, FIPS 51560)
      Location: 33.92546 N, 117.55120 W
      Population (1990): 23302 (5785 housing units)
      Area: 35.5 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 91760
   Norco, LA (CDP, FIPS 55525)
      Location: 30.00172 N, 90.40957 W
      Population (1990): 3385 (1371 housing units)
      Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 70079

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Norge, OK (town, FIPS 52450)
      Location: 34.98786 N, 97.99568 W
      Population (1990): 97 (37 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Norris, IL (village, FIPS 53390)
      Location: 40.62555 N, 90.03166 W
      Population (1990): 212 (105 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Norris, MT
      Zip code(s): 59745
   Norris, SC (town, FIPS 50515)
      Location: 34.76479 N, 82.75233 W
      Population (1990): 884 (367 housing units)
      Area: 5.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Norris, SD
      Zip code(s): 57560
   Norris, TN (city, FIPS 53600)
      Location: 36.21310 N, 84.06103 W
      Population (1990): 1303 (622 housing units)
      Area: 17.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Norwich, CT (city, FIPS 56200)
      Location: 41.55018 N, 72.08795 W
      Population (1990): 37391 (16472 housing units)
      Area: 73.4 sq km (land), 3.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 06360
   Norwich, KS (city, FIPS 51600)
      Location: 37.45673 N, 97.84550 W
      Population (1990): 455 (208 housing units)
      Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 67118
   Norwich, ND
      Zip code(s): 58768
   Norwich, NY (city, FIPS 53979)
      Location: 42.53497 N, 75.52369 W
      Population (1990): 7613 (3502 housing units)
      Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 13815
   Norwich, OH (village, FIPS 57372)
      Location: 39.98470 N, 81.79260 W
      Population (1990): 133 (53 housing units)
      Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 43767
   Norwich, VT
      Zip code(s): 05055

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   NERECO
  
      NEtwork REmote COmmunications.
  
      {CSP} with extensions to allow asymmetrical and {asynchronous}
      communications and fault handling.   It is implemented on a
      network of {Sun}s.
  
      ["A Concurrent Programming Support for Distributed Systems",
      G. Spezzano et al, in Computing Systems vol 3, pp.423-447, U
      Cal Press, 1990].
  
      (1994-11-11)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   NRZ
  
      {Non Return to Zero}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   NRZI
  
      {Non Return to Zero Inverted}
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nereus
      a Christian at Rome to whom Paul sent his salutation (Rom.
      16:15).
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nereus, same as Ner
  
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