English Dictionary: nitweed | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Need \Need\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n[?]dan to force, Goth. nau[?]jan.] To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --Milton. Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. [bd]And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.[b8] --Anacharsis (Trans. ). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Net \Net\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Netted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Netting}.] To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Net \Net\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Netted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Netting}.] 1. To make into a net; to make n the style of network; as, to net silk. 2. To take in a net; to capture by stratagem or wile. And now I am here, netted and in the toils. --Sir W. Scott. 3. To inclose or cover with a net; as, to net a tree. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nitid \Nit"id\, a. [L. nitidus, fr. nitere. See 3d {Neat}.] 1. Bright; lustrous; shining. [R.] --Boyle. 2. Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons. [R.] --T. Reeve. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Nod \Nod\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nodded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nodding}.] 1. To incline or bend, as the head or top; to make a motion of assent, of salutation, or of drowsiness with; as, to nod the head. 2. To signify by a nod; as, to nod approbation. 3. To cause to bend. [Poetic] By every wind that nods the mountain pine. --Keats. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Notate \No"tate\, a. [L. notatus marked, p. p. of notare to mark. See 5th {Note}.] (Bot.) Marked with spots or lines, which are often colored. --Henslow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Note \Note\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Noted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Noting}.] [F. noter, L. notare, fr. nota. See {Note}, n.] 1. To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed; to attend to. --Pope. No more of that; I have noted it well. --Shak. 2. To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. Every unguarded word . . . was noted down. --Maccaulay. 3. To charge, as with crime (with of or for before the thing charged); to brand. [Obs.] They were both noted of incontinency. --Dryden. 4. To denote; to designate. --Johnson. 5. To annotate. [R.] --W. H. Dixon. 6. To set down in musical characters. {To note a bill} [or] {draft}, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Noted \Not"ed\, a. Well known by reputation or report; eminent; celebrated; as, a noted author, or traveler. -- {Not"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Not"ed*ness}, n. | |
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Notwheat \Not"wheat`\, n. [Nott + wheat.] Wheat not bearded. --Carew. | |
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Nudity \Nu"di*ty\, n.; pl. {Nudities}. [Cf. F. nudit[82] .] 1. The quality or state of being nude; nakedness. 2. That which is nude or naked; naked part; undraped or unclothed portion; esp. (Fine Arts), the human figure represented unclothed; any representation of nakedness; -- chiefly used in the plural and in a bad sense. There are no such licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities. --Dryden. | |
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Nut \Nut\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Nutted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nutting}.] To gather nuts. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
netdead n. [IRC] The state of someone who signs off {IRC}, perhaps during a {netburp}, and doesn't sign back on until later. In the interim, he is "dead to the net". Compare {link-dead}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
netdead [IRC] The state of someone who signs off {IRC}, perhaps during a {netburp}, and doesn't sign back on until later. In the interim, he is "dead to the net". [{Jargon File}] |