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Nag \Nag\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. {Nagged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nagging}.] [Cf. Sw. nagga to nibble, peck, Dan. nage to gnaw, Icel. naga, gnaga, G. nagen, & E. gnaw.] To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] [bd]She never nagged.[b8] --J. Ingelow. | |
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Naked \Na"ked\, a. [AS. nacod; akin to D. naakt, G. nackt, OHG. nacchot, nahhot, Icel. n[94]kvi[edh]r, nakinn, Sw. naken, Dan. n[94]gen, Goth. naqa[thorn]s, Lith. n[uring]gas, Russ. nagii, L. nudus, Skr. nagna. [root]266. Cf. {Nude}.] 1. Having no clothes on; uncovered; nude; bare; as, a naked body; a naked limb; a naked sword. 2. Having no means of defense or protection; open; unarmed; defenseless. Thy power is full naked. --Chaucer. Behold my bosom naked to your swords. --Addison. 3. Unprovided with needful or desirable accessories, means of sustenance, etc.; destitute; unaided; bare. Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they say now left naked. --Milton. 4. Without addition, exaggeration, or excuses; not concealed or disguised; open to view; manifest; plain. The truth appears so naked on my side, That any purblind eye may find it out. --Shak. All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we to do. --Heb. iv. 13. 5. Mere; simple; plain. The very naked name of love. --Shak. 6. (Bot.) 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. 7. (Mus.) 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. | |
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{Naked bed}, a bed the occupant of which is naked, no night linen being worn in ancient times. --Shak. {Naked eye}, the eye alone, unaided by glasses, or by telescope, microscope, or the like. {Naked-eyed medusa}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Hydromedusa}. {Naked flooring} (Carp.), the timberwork which supports a floor. --Gwilt. {Naked mollusk} (Zo[94]l.), a nudibranch. {Naked wood} (Bot.), a large rhamnaceous tree ({Colibrina reclinata}) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish. --C. S. Sargent. Syn: Nude; bare; denuded; uncovered; unclothed; exposed; unarmed; plain; defenseless. | |
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Nassa \Nas"sa\, n.; pl. E. {Nassas}, L. {Nass[92]}. [From L. nassa a kind of basket, in allusion to the reticulation of some species.] (Zo[94]l.) Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera {Nassa}, {Tritia}, and other allied genera of the family {Nassid[91]}; a dog whelk. See Illust. under {Gastropoda}. -- {nas"soid}, a. | |
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Nasty \Nas"ty\, a. [Compar. {Nastier}; superl. {Nastiest}.] [For older nasky; cf. dial. Sw. naskug, nasket.] 1. Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous. 2. Hence, loosely: Offensive; disagreeable; unpropitious; wet; drizzling; as, a nasty rain, day, sky. 3. Characterized by obcenity; indecent; indelicate; gross; filthy. Syn: {Nasty}, {Filthy}, {Foul}, {Dirty}. Usage: Anything nasty is usually wet or damp as well as filthy or dirty, and disgusts by its stickness or odor; but filthy and foul imply that a thing is filled or covered with offensive matter, while dirty describes it as defiled or sullied with dirt of any kind; as, filthy clothing, foul vapors, etc. | |
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Nasute \Na"sute\, a. [L. nasutus, fr. nasus the nose.] 1. Having a nice sense of smell. [Obs.] --Evelyn. 2. Critically nice; captious. [Obs.] --auden. | |
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Naught \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[?]wiht, n[?]uht, n[?]ht; ne not + [?] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf. {Aught}, {Not}.] 1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}. {To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. [bd]Ye have set at naught all my counsel.[b8] --Prov. i. 25. | |
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Naught \Naught\, adv. In no degree; not at all. --Chaucer. To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. --Fairfax. | |
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Naught \Naught\, a. 1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. --Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. --Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. --Hooker. 2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.] No man can be stark naught at once. --Fuller. | |
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Naughty \Naugh"ty\, a. [Compar. {Naughtier}; superl. {Naughtiest}.] 1. Having little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. --Piers Plowman. 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.] The other basket had very naughty figs. --Jer. xxiv. 2. 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic] So shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak. 4. Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child. Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure. | |
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Nauseate \Nau"se*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Nauseated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nauseating}.] [L. nauseare, nauseatum, fr. nausea. See {Nausea}.] To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust. | |
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Nauseate \Nau"se*ate\, v. t. 1. To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust. 2. To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe. The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. --Blackmore. | |
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Neck \Neck\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Necked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Necking}.] (Mech.) 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. | |
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Necked \Necked\, a. 1. Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked. 2. (Naut.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail. | |
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Necktie \Neck"tie`\, 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. | |
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Neckweed \Neck"weed`\, n. (Bot.) (a) An American annual weed ({veronica peregrina}), with small white flowers and a roundish pod. (b) The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals. --Dr. prior. | |
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Neese \Neese\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Neesed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Neesing}.] [OE. nesen; akin to D. niezen, G. niesen, Icel. hnj[omac]sa.] To sneeze. [Obs.] [Written also {neeze}.] | |
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Neigh \Neigh\ (n[amac]), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Neighed} (n[amac]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Neighing}.] [OE. neien, AS. hn[aemac]gan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. n[emac]gen, Icel. hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gn[84]gga. Cf. {Nag} a horse.] 1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny. 2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [Obs.] Neighed at his nakedness. --Beau. & Fl. | |
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Nest \Nest\, v. i. To build and occupy a nest. The king of birds nested within his leaves. --Howell. | |
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Nest \Nest\, v. t. To put into a nest; to form a nest for. From him who nested himself into the chief power. --South. | |
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Nest \Nest\, n. [AS. nest; akin to D. & G. nest, Sw. n[84]ste, L. nidus, for nisdus, Skr. n[c6][?]a resting place, nest; cf. Lith. lizdas, Arm. neiz, Gael. & Ir. nead. Prob. from the particle ni down, Skr. ni + the root of E. sit, and thus orig., a place to sit down in. [root] 264. See {Nether}, and {Sit}, and cf. {Eyas}, {Nidification}, {Nye}.] 1. The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. The birds of the air have nests. --Matt. viii. 20. 2. Hence: the place in which the eggs of other animals, as insects, turtles, etc., are laid and hatched; a snug place in which young animals are reared. --Bentley. 3. A snug, comfortable, or cozy residence or situation; a retreat, or place of habitual resort; hence, those who occupy a nest, frequent a haunt, or are associated in the same pursuit; as, a nest of traitors; a nest of bugs. A little cottage, like some poor man's nest. --Spenser. 4. (Geol.) An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock. 5. A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger. 6. (Mech.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively. {Nest egg}, an egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it, and to induce her to lay more in the same place; hence, figuratively, something laid up as the beginning of a fund or collection. --Hudibras. | |
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New \New\, a. [Compar. {Newer}; superl. {Newest}.] [OE. OE. newe, AS. niwe, neowe; akin to D. nieuw, OS. niwi, OHG. niuwi, G. neu, Icel. n[?]r, Dan. & Sw. ny, Goth. niujis, Lith. naujas, Russ. novuii, Ir. nua, nuadh, Gael. nuadh, W. newydd, Armor. nevez, L. novus, gr. [?], Skr. nava, and prob. to E. now. [root]263. See {Now}, and cf. {Announce}, {Innovate}, {Neophyte}, {Novel}.] 1. Having existed, or having been made, but a short time; having originated or occured lately; having recently come into existence, or into one's possession; not early or long in being; of late origin; recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to {old}, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. [bd]Your new wife.[b8] --Chaucer. 2. Not before seen or known, although existing before; lately manifested; recently discovered; as, a new metal; a new planet; new scenes. 3. Newly beginning or recurring; starting anew; now commencing; different from has been; as, a new year; a new course or direction. 4. As if lately begun or made; having the state or quality of original freshness; also, changed for the better; renovated; unworn; untried; unspent; as, rest and travel made him a new man. Steadfasty purposing to lead a new life. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. Men after long emaciating diets, fat, and almost new. --Bacon. 5. Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. --Addison. 6. Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed. New to the plow, unpracticed in the trace. --Pope. 7. Fresh from anything; newly come. New from her sickness to that northern air. --Dryden. {New birth}. See under {Birth}. {New Church}, [or] {New Jerusalem Church}, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See {Swedenborgian}. {New heart} (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. {New land}, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. {New light}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Crappie}. {New moon}. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. --2 Kings iv. 23. {New Red Sandstone} (Geol.), an old name for the formation immediately above the coal measures or strata, now divided into the Permian and Trias. See {Sandstone}. {New style}. See {Style}. {New testament}. See under {Testament}. {New world}, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times. Syn: Novel; recent; fresh; modern. See {Novel}. | |
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Nigh \Nigh\, a. [Compar. {Nigher}; superl. {Nighest}, or {Next}.] [OE. nigh, neigh, neih, AS. ne[a0]h, n[?]h; akin to D. na, adv., OS. n[be]h, a., OHG. n[be]h, G. nah, a., nach to, after, Icel. n[be] (in comp.) nigh, Goth. n[?]hw, n[?]hwa, adv., nigh. Cf. {Near}, {Neighbor}, {Next}.] 1. Not distant or remote in place or time; near. The loud tumult shows the battle nigh. --Prior. 2. Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. [bd]Nigh kinsmen.[b8] --Knolles. Ye . . . are made nigh by the blood of Christ. --Eph. ii. 13. Syn: Near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring. | |
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Next \Next\ (n[ecr]kst), a., superl. of {Nigh}. [AS. n[emac]hst, ni[82]hst, n[ymac]hst, superl. of ne[a0]h nigh. See {Nigh}.] 1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. --Chaucer. Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest. --Dryden. Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way. --Bunyan. 2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour. 3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. --Gay. 4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant. The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. --Ruth ii. 20. Note: Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition. {Next friend} (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law. | |
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Next \Next\, adv. In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next. | |
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Nicety \Ni"ce*ty\, n.; pl. {Niceties}. [OE. nicet[82] foolishness.] 1. The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.). The miller smiled of her nicety. --Chaucer. 2. Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision. 3. A delicate expression, act, mode of treatment, distinction, or the like; a minute distinction. The fineness and niceties of words. --Locke. {To a nicety}, with great exactness or accuracy. | |
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Niched \Niched\, a. Placed in a niche. [bd]Those niched shapes of noble mold.[b8] --Tennyson. | |
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Nick \Nick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nicked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nicking}.] 1. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. 2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. --Shak. 3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. --Camden. 4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. --L'Estrange. 5. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher). | |
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Nidget \Nidg"et\, n. [Written also {nigget}, {nigeot}.] [Cf. F. nigaud a boody, fool, OF. niger to play the fool.] A fool; an idiot, a coward. [Obs.] --Camden. | |
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nigged \nigged\, n. [Prov. E. nig to clip money.] (Masonry) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone. | |
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Nidget \Nidg"et\, n. [Written also {nigget}, {nigeot}.] [Cf. F. nigaud a boody, fool, OF. niger to play the fool.] A fool; an idiot, a coward. [Obs.] --Camden. | |
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Night \Night\, n. [OE. night, niht, AS. neaht, niht; akin to D. nacht, OS. & OHG. naht, G. nacht, Icel. n[?]tt, Sw. natt, Dan. nat, Goth. nachts, Lith. naktis, Russ. noche, W. nos, Ir. nochd, L. nox, noctis, gr. [?], [?], Skr. nakta, nakti. [root] 265. Cf. {Equinox}, {Nocturnal}.] 1. 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. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. --Gen. i. 5. 2. Hence: (a) Darkness; obscurity; concealment. Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. --Pope. (b) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance. (c) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow. (d) The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. --Dryden. (e) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. [bd]Sad winter's night[b8]. --Spenser. Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc. {Night by night}, {Night after night}, nightly; many nights. So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. --Shak. {Night bird}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The moor hen ({Gallinula chloropus}). (b) The Manx shearwater ({Puffinus Anglorum}). {Night blindness}. (Med.) See {Hemeralopia}. {Night cart}, a cart used to remove the contents of privies by night. {Night churr}, (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night crow}, a bird that cries in the night. {Night dog}, a dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers. {Night fire}. (a) Fire burning in the night. (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern. {Night flyer} (Zo[94]l.), any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects. {night glass}, a spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. --Totten. {Night green}, iodine green. {Night hag}, a witch supposed to wander in the night. {Night hawk} (Zo[94]l.), an American bird ({Chordeiles Virginianus}), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also {bull bat}. {Night heron} ({Zo[94]l}.), any one of several species of herons of the genus {Nycticorax}, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is {Nycticorax griseus}, or {N. nycticorax}, of Europe, and the American variety (var. n[91]vius). The yellow-crowned night heron ({Nycticorax violaceus}) inhabits the Southern States. Called also {qua-bird}, and {squawk}. {Night house}, a public house, or inn, which is open at night. {Night key}, a key for unfastening a night latch. {Night latch}, a kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key. {Night monkey} (Zo[94]l.), an owl monkey. {night moth} (Zo[94]l.), any one of the noctuids. {Night parrot} (Zo[94]l.), the kakapo. {Night piece}, a painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like. {Night rail}, a loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [Obs.] {Night raven} (Zo[94]l.), a bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. {Night rule}. (a) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [Obs.] (b) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night. What night rule now about this haunted grove? --Shak. {Night sight}. (Med.) See {Nyctolopia}. {Night snap}, a night thief. [Cant] --Beau. & Fl. {Night soil}, human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure. {Night spell}, a charm against accidents at night. {Night swallow} (Zo[94]l.), the nightjar. {Night walk}, a walk in the evening or night. {Night walker}. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets. {Night walking}. (a) Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism; noctambulism. (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs. {Night warbler} (Zo[94]l.), the sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus phragmitis}); -- called also {night singer}. [prov. Eng.] {Night watch}. (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch. (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night. {Night watcher}, one who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs. {Night witch}. Same as {Night hag}, above. | |
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Niste \Nis"te\ [Contr. from ne wiste.] Wist not; knew not. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Isochronize \I*soch"ro*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-nized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-nizing}.] [See {Isochronous}.] To make, or tend to make (the motion of a moving body), uniform in rate of rotation, or in frequency of vibration. | |
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Syntonize \Syn"to*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {-nized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {-nizing}.] [See {Syntony}.] (Physics) To adjust or devise so as to emit or respond to electric oscillations of a certain wave length; to tune; specif., to put (two or more instruments or systems of wireless telegraphy) in syntony with each other. -- {Syn`to*ni*za"tion}, n. | |
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Noght \Noght\, adv. Not. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Noise \Noise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noised}; p pr. & vb. n. {Noising}.] 1. To spread by rumor or report. All these sayings were noised abroad. --Luke i. 65. 2. To disturb with noise. [Obs.] --Dryden. | |
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Noisette \Noi*sette"\, n. (Bot.) 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. --P. Henderson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Noose \Noose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Noosing}.] To tie in a noose; to catch in a noose; to entrap; to insnare. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nosed \Nosed\, a. Having a nose, or such a nose; -- chieflay used in composition; as, pug-nosed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nose \Nose\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nosed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nosing}.] 1. To smell; to scent; hence, to track, or trace out. 2. To touch with the nose; to push the nose into or against; hence, to interfere with; to treat insolently. Lambs . . . nosing the mother's udder. --Tennyson. A sort of national convention, dubious in its nature . . . nosed Parliament in the very seat of its authority. --Burke. 3. To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang; as, to nose a prayer. [R.] --Cowley. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nost \Nost\ [Contr. from ne wost.] Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Naught \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[?]wiht, n[?]uht, n[?]ht; ne not + [?] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf. {Aught}, {Not}.] 1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}. {To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. [bd]Ye have set at naught all my counsel.[b8] --Prov. i. 25. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nought \Nought\, n. & adv. See {Naught}. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Naught \Naught\, n. [OE. naught, nought, naht, nawiht, AS. n[?]wiht, n[?]uht, n[?]ht; ne not + [?] ever + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See {No}, adv. {Whit}, and cf. {Aught}, {Not}.] 1. Nothing. [Written also {nought}.] Doth Job fear God for naught? --Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See {Cipher}. {To set at naught}, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. [bd]Ye have set at naught all my counsel.[b8] --Prov. i. 25. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nought \Nought\, n. & adv. See {Naught}. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nugget \Nug"get\, n. [Earlier niggot, prob. for nigot, an ingot. See {Ingot}.] A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nuzzle \Nuz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nuzzied};p. pr. & vb. n. {Nuzzling}.] [See {Noursle}.] 1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.] The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. --Milton. 2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. {Nustle}.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Nags Head, NC (town, FIPS 45880) Location: 35.94458 N, 75.62653 W Population (1990): 1838 (3117 housing units) Area: 16.4 sq km (land), 1.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 27959 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Naschitti, NM (CDP, FIPS 51280) Location: 36.06222 N, 108.68097 W Population (1990): 323 (87 housing units) Area: 5.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Nashotah, WI (village, FIPS 55550) Location: 43.09302 N, 88.40134 W Population (1990): 567 (188 housing units) Area: 4.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 53058 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Necedah, WI (village, FIPS 55700) Location: 44.02457 N, 90.07171 W Population (1990): 743 (368 housing units) Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 54646 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Neck City, MO (city, FIPS 51356) Location: 37.25627 N, 94.44360 W Population (1990): 132 (59 housing units) Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Ness City, KS (city, FIPS 49925) Location: 38.45341 N, 99.90563 W Population (1990): 1724 (804 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67560 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
New City, NY (CDP, FIPS 50100) Location: 41.15380 N, 73.99182 W Population (1990): 33673 (10628 housing units) Area: 40.4 sq km (land), 1.8 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 10956 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
New Site, AL (town, FIPS 54432) Location: 33.03522 N, 85.77501 W Population (1990): 669 (264 housing units) Area: 21.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 35010 New Site, MS Zip code(s): 38859 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Nicut, WV Zip code(s): 26633 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Nuiqsut, AK (city, FIPS 56320) Location: 70.19153 N, 150.99460 W Population (1990): 354 (102 housing units) Area: 21.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99789 | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
NCD {Network Computing Devices} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
NIST {National Institute of Standards and Technology} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
NSDI {National Spatial Data Infrastructure} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Naked This word denotes (1) absolute nakedness (Gen. 2:25; Job 1:21; Eccl. 5:15; Micah 1:8; Amos 2:16); (2) being poorly clad (Isa. 58:7; James 2:15). It denotes also (3) the state of one who has laid aside his loose outer garment (Lat. nudus), and appears clothed only in a long tunic or under robe worn next the skin (1 Sam. 19:24; Isa. 47:3; comp. Mark 14:52; John 21:7). It is used figuratively, meaning "being discovered" or "made manifest" (Job 26:6; Heb. 4:13). In Ex. 32:25 the expression "the people were naked" (A.V.) is more correctly rendered in the Revised Version "the people were broken loose", i.e., had fallen into a state of lawlessness and insubordination. In 2 Chr. 28:19 the words "he made Judah naked" (A.V.), but Revised Version "he had dealt wantonly in Judah," mean "he had permitted Judah to break loose from all the restraints of religion." | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Nehushta copper, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem, and the wife of Jehoiakin (2 Kings 24:8), king of Judah. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Nehushta, made of brass | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Nekoda, painted; inconstant |