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   naked mole rat
         n 1: fetal-looking colonial rodent of East Africa; neither mole
               nor rat; they feed on tubers and have a social structure
               similar to that of honeybees and termites

English Dictionary: Nicotiana tabacum by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naked-muzzled
adj
  1. having a muzzle that is hairless
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nakedness
n
  1. the state of being without clothing or covering of any kind
    Synonym(s): nakedness, nudity, nudeness
  2. a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape"
    Synonym(s): bleakness, desolation, bareness, nakedness
  3. characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive
    Synonym(s): openness, nakedness
    Antonym(s): closeness, secretiveness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nastiness
n
  1. a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse
    Synonym(s): filth, filthiness, foulness, nastiness
  2. malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
    Synonym(s): cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness
  3. the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
    Antonym(s): niceness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
naughtiness
n
  1. an attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness, mischievousness, badness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nauseating
adj
  1. causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench"
    Synonym(s): nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nauseatingness
n
  1. extreme unpalatability to the mouth [syn: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness]
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negation
n
  1. a negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement
  2. the speech act of negating
  3. (logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
negotiant
n
  1. someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement)
    Synonym(s): negotiator, negotiant, treater
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nekton
n
  1. the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
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nesting place
n
  1. a place suitable for nesting
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New Stone Age
n
  1. latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East (but later elsewhere)
    Synonym(s): Neolithic Age, Neolithic, New Stone Age
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news item
n
  1. an item in a newspaper
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newsstand
n
  1. a stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold
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newsstand operator
n
  1. someone who sells newspapers [syn: newsagent, newsdealer, newsvendor, newsstand operator]
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Nicotiana
n
  1. American and Asiatic aromatic herbs and shrubs with viscid foliage
    Synonym(s): Nicotiana, genus Nicotiana
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Nicotiana alata
n
  1. South American ornamental perennial having nocturnally fragrant greenish-white flowers
    Synonym(s): flowering tobacco, Jasmine tobacco, Nicotiana alata
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nicotiana glauca
n
  1. evergreen South American shrub naturalized in United States; occasionally responsible for poisoning livestock
    Synonym(s): tree tobacco, mustard tree, Nicotiana glauca
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nicotiana rustica
n
  1. tobacco plant of South America and Mexico [syn: {wild tobacco}, Indian tobacco, Nicotiana rustica]
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Nicotiana tabacum
n
  1. tall erect South American herb with large ovate leaves and terminal clusters of tubular white or pink flowers; cultivated for its leaves
    Synonym(s): common tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
n
  1. a coenzyme present in most living cells and derived from the B vitamin nicotinic acid; serves as a reductant in various metabolic processes
    Synonym(s): nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, NAD
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate
n
  1. a coenzyme similar to NAD and present in most living cells but serves as a reductant in different metabolic processes
    Synonym(s): nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, NADP
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nicotine
n
  1. an alkaloid poison that occurs in tobacco; used in medicine and as an insecticide
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nicotine addiction
n
  1. an addiction to nicotine
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nicotine poisoning
n
  1. toxic condition caused by the ingestion or inhalation of large amounts of nicotine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nicotinic acid
n
  1. a B vitamin essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract
    Synonym(s): niacin, nicotinic acid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nightingale
n
  1. European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song
    Synonym(s): nightingale, Luscinia megarhynchos
  2. English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910)
    Synonym(s): Nightingale, Florence Nightingale, Lady with the Lamp
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nightmare
n
  1. a situation resembling a terrifying dream [syn: nightmare, incubus]
  2. a terrifying or deeply upsetting dream
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nightmarish
adj
  1. extremely alarming [syn: bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish]
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nighttime
n
  1. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
    Synonym(s): night, nighttime, dark
    Antonym(s): day, daylight, daytime
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noctambulation
n
  1. walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noctambulism
n
  1. walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking, somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism, noctambulation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noctambulist
n
  1. someone who walks about in their sleep [syn: sleepwalker, somnambulist, noctambulist]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nusa Tenggara
n
  1. a chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia to the east of Java; includes Bali and Timor
    Synonym(s): Lesser Sunda Islands, Nusa Tenggara
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nyctanassa
n
  1. American night herons [syn: Nyctanassa, {genus Nyctanassa}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nyctanassa violacea
n
  1. North American night heron [syn: {yellow-crowned night heron}, Nyctanassa violacea]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nyctimene
n
  1. East Indian fruit bats [syn: Nyctimene, {genus Nyctimene}]
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Nystan
n
  1. an antifungal and antibiotic (trade names Mycostatin and Nystan) discovered in New York State; derived from soil fungi actinomycetes
    Synonym(s): nystatin, Mycostatin, Nystan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nakedness \Na"ked*ness\, n.
      1. The condition of being naked.
  
      2. (Script.) The privy parts; the genitals.
  
                     Ham . . . saw the nakedness of his father. --Gen.
                                                                              ix. 22.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nastiness \Nas"ti*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness;
      dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
  
               The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. --Dryden.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nasutness \Na"sut*ness\, n.
      Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness.
      [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Naughtiness \Naugh"ti*ness\, n.
      The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness;
      wickedness.
  
               I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart.
                                                                              --1 Sam. xvii.
                                                                              28.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nauseation \Nau`se*a"tion\, n.
      The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Pichurim bean \Pich"u*rim bean`\ (Bot.)
      The seed of a Brazilian lauraceous tree ({Nectandra Puchury})
      of a taste and smell between those of nutmeg and of
      sassafras, -- sometimes used medicinally. Called also
      {sassafras nut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bebeeru \Be*bee"ru\, n. [Written also {bibiru}.] [Native name.]
      (Bot.)
      A tropical South American tree ({Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}), the
      bark of which yields the alkaloid bebeerine, and the wood of
      which is known as green heart.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bebeerine \Be*bee"rine\, or Bebirine \Be*bi"rine\
      (b[esl]*b[emac]"r[icr]n or -r[emac]n), n. (Chem.)
      An alkaloid got from the bark of the bebeeru, or green heart
      of Guiana ({Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}). It is a tonic,
      antiperiodic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a
      substitute for quinine. [Written also {bibirine}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Green \Green\, a. [Compar. {Greener}; superl. {Greenest.}] [OE.
      grene, AS. gr?ne; akin to D. groen, OS. gr?ni, OHG. gruoni,
      G. gr?n, Dan. & Sw. gr?n, Icel. gr?nn; fr. the root of E.
      grow. See {Grow.}]
      1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
            resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
            between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
  
      2. Having a sickly color; wan.
  
                     To look so green and pale.                  --Shak.
  
      3. Full of life aud vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
            as, a green manhood; a green wound.
  
                     As valid against such an old and beneficent
                     government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                                              --Burke.
  
      4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
            fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
  
      5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
  
                     We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                                              Watts.
  
      6. Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained;
            awkward; as, green in years or judgment.
  
                     I might be angry with the officious zeal which
                     supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
                     gray hairs.                                       --Sir W.
                                                                              Scott.
  
      7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
            green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
  
      {Green brier} (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
            rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
            leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
            United States; -- called also {cat brier}.
  
      {Green con} (Zo[94]l.), the pollock.
  
      {Green crab} (Zo[94]l.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
            menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
            named {joe-rocker}.
  
      {Green crop}, a crop used for food while in a growing or
            unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
            crop, etc.
  
      {Green diallage}. (Min.)
            (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
            (b) Smaragdite.
  
      {Green dragon} (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
            ({Aris[91]ma Dracontium}), resembling the Indian turnip;
            -- called also {dragon root}.
  
      {Green earth} (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
            cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
            as a pigment by artists; -- called also {mountain green}.
           
  
      {Green ebony}.
            (a) A south American tree ({Jacaranda ovalifolia}), having
                  a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
                  work, and in dyeing.
            (b) The West Indian green ebony. See {Ebony}.
  
      {Green fire} (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
            green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
            chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
            to which the color of the flame is due.
  
      {Green fly} (Zo[94]l.), any green species of plant lice or
            aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
  
      {Green gage}, (Bot.) See {Greengage}, in the Vocabulary.
  
      {Green gland} (Zo[94]l.), one of a pair of large green glands
            in Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have
            their outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[91].
  
      {Green hand}, a novice. [Colloq.]
  
      {Green heart} (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
            the West Indies and in South America, used for
            shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
            Guiana is the {Nectandra Rodi[d2]i}, that of Martinique is
            the {Colubrina ferruginosa}.
  
      {Green iron ore} (Min.) dufrenite.
  
      {Green laver} (Bot.), an edible seaweed ({Ulva latissima});
            -- called also {green sloke}.
  
      {Green lead ore} (Min.), pyromorphite.
  
      {Green linnet} (Zo[94]l.), the greenfinch.
  
      {Green looper} (Zo[94]l.), the cankerworm.
  
      {Green marble} (Min.), serpentine.
  
      {Green mineral}, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
            See {Greengill}.
  
      {Green monkey} (Zo[94]l.) a West African long-tailed monkey
            ({Cercopithecus callitrichus}), very commonly tamed, and
            trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
            Indies early in the last century, and has become very
            abundant there.
  
      {Green salt of Magnus} (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
            salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
            of platinum.
  
      {Green sand} (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
            slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
  
      {Green sea} (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
            vessel's deck.
  
      {Green sickness} (Med.), chlorosis.
  
      {Green snake} (Zo[94]l.), one of two harmless American snakes
            ({Cyclophis vernalis}, and {C. [91]stivus}). They are
            bright green in color.
  
      {Green turtle} (Zo[94]l.), an edible marine turtle. See
            {Turtle}.
  
      {Green vitriol}.
            (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
                  substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
                  inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
            (b) (Min.) Same as {copperas}, {melanterite} and {sulphate
                  of iron}.
  
      {Green ware}, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
            yet baked.
  
      {Green woodpecker} (Zo[94]l.), a common European woodpecker
            ({Picus viridis}); -- called also {yaffle}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Negation \Ne*ga"tion\, n. [L. negatio, fr. negare to say no, to
      deny; ne not + the root of aio I say; cf. Gr. [?], Skr. ah to
      say; cf. F. n[82]gation. See {No}, adv., and cf. {Adage},
      {Deny}, {Renegade}.]
      1. 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}.
  
                     Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay.
                                                                              --Rogers.
  
      2. (Logic) 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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Negotiant \Ne*go"ti*ant\, n. [L. negotians, prop. p. pr. of
      negotiari: cf. F. n[82]gociant.]
      A negotiator. [R.] --Sir W. Raleigh.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nehushtan \Ne*hush"tan\, n. [Heb.]
      A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites
      worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. --2 Kings xviii.
      4.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\, n. [F. nicotiane; -- so called from
      Nicot, who introduced it into France, a. d. 1560.]
      Tobacco. [R.] --B. Jonson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotian \Ni*co"tian\, a.
      Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco. [R.] --Bp. Hall.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
      tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
      plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
      Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
      Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
      Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
      1. (Bot.) An American plant ({Nicotiana Tabacum}) of the
            Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
            as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
            cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
            acrid taste.
  
      Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
               to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
               rustica}, and also {Lobelia inflata}), mountain tobacco
               ({Arnica montana}), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
               Persica}).
  
      2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
            etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
            ways.
  
      {Tobacco box} (Zo[94]l.), the common American skate.
  
      {Tobacco camphor}. (Chem.) See {Nicotianine}.
  
      {Tobacco man}, a tobacconist. [R.]
  
      {Tobacco pipe}.
            (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
                  other material.
            (b) (Bot.) Same as {Indian pipe}, under {Indian}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe clay} (Min.), a species of clay used in making
            tobacco pipes; -- called also {cimolite}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pipemouth}.
  
      {Tobacco stopper}, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
            in a pipe as it is smoked.
  
      {Tobacco worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
            ({Sphinx, [or] Phlegethontius, Carolina}). It is dark
            green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above
            with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon
            the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very
            injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk moth}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
      tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
      plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
      Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
      Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
      Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
      1. (Bot.) An American plant ({Nicotiana Tabacum}) of the
            Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
            as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
            cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
            acrid taste.
  
      Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
               to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
               rustica}, and also {Lobelia inflata}), mountain tobacco
               ({Arnica montana}), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
               Persica}).
  
      2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
            etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
            ways.
  
      {Tobacco box} (Zo[94]l.), the common American skate.
  
      {Tobacco camphor}. (Chem.) See {Nicotianine}.
  
      {Tobacco man}, a tobacconist. [R.]
  
      {Tobacco pipe}.
            (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
                  other material.
            (b) (Bot.) Same as {Indian pipe}, under {Indian}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe clay} (Min.), a species of clay used in making
            tobacco pipes; -- called also {cimolite}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pipemouth}.
  
      {Tobacco stopper}, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
            in a pipe as it is smoked.
  
      {Tobacco worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
            ({Sphinx, [or] Phlegethontius, Carolina}). It is dark
            green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above
            with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon
            the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very
            injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk moth}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tobacco \To*bac"co\, n. [Sp. tabaco, fr. the Indian tabaco the
      tube or pipe in which the Indians or Caribbees smoked this
      plant. Some derive the word from Tabaco, a province of
      Yucatan, where it was said to be first found by the
      Spaniards; others from the island of Tobago, one of the
      Caribbees. But these derivations are very doubtful.]
      1. (Bot.) An American plant ({Nicotiana Tabacum}) of the
            Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and
            as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and
            cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an
            acrid taste.
  
      Note: The name is extended to other species of the genus, and
               to some unrelated plants, as Indian tobacco ({Nicotiana
               rustica}, and also {Lobelia inflata}), mountain tobacco
               ({Arnica montana}), and Shiraz tobacco ({Nicotiana
               Persica}).
  
      2. The leaves of the plant prepared for smoking, chewing,
            etc., by being dried, cured, and manufactured in various
            ways.
  
      {Tobacco box} (Zo[94]l.), the common American skate.
  
      {Tobacco camphor}. (Chem.) See {Nicotianine}.
  
      {Tobacco man}, a tobacconist. [R.]
  
      {Tobacco pipe}.
            (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or
                  other material.
            (b) (Bot.) Same as {Indian pipe}, under {Indian}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe clay} (Min.), a species of clay used in making
            tobacco pipes; -- called also {cimolite}.
  
      {Tobacco-pipe fish}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Pipemouth}.
  
      {Tobacco stopper}, a small plug for pressing down the tobacco
            in a pipe as it is smoked.
  
      {Tobacco worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a large hawk moth
            ({Sphinx, [or] Phlegethontius, Carolina}). It is dark
            green, with seven oblique white stripes bordered above
            with dark brown on each side of the body. It feeds upon
            the leaves of tobacco and tomato plants, and is often very
            injurious to the tobacco crop. See Illust. of {Hawk moth}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotianine \Ni*co"ti*a*nine\ (? [or] ?), n. [F. nicotianine.
      See {Nicotian}.] (Chem.)
      A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted
      from tobacco leaves and called also {tobacco camphor}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotine \Nic"o*tine\ (? [or] ?), n. [F. nicotine. See
      {Nicotian}.] (Chem.)
      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. --Ure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotinic \Nic`o*tin"ic\, a. (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; -- used
      specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine,
      obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic
      acid.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicotinism \Nic"o*tin*ism\, n. [Nicotine + -ism.] (Med.)
      The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of
      tobacco.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nightingale \Night"in*gale\, n. [OE. nihtegale,nightingale, AS.
      nihtegale; niht night + galan to sing, akin to E. yell; cf.
      D. nachtegaal, OS. nahtigala, OHG. nahtigala, G. nachtigall,
      Sw. n[84]ktergal, Dan. nattergal. See {Night}, and {Yell}.]
      1. (Zo[94]l.) A small, plain, brown and gray European song
            bird ({Luscinia luscinia}). It sings at night, and is
            celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) A larger species ({Lucinia philomela}), of
            Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush
            nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied
            species.
  
      {Mock nightingale}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Blackcap}, n., 1
            (a) .

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nightman \Night"man\, n.; pl. {Nightmen}.
      One whose business is emptying privies by night.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nightmare \Night"mare`\, n. [Night + mare incubus. See {Mare}
      incubus.]
      1. A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in
            sleep.
  
      2. A condition in sleep usually caused by improper eating or
            by digestive or nervous troubles, and characterized by a
            sense of extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on
            the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech,
            etc.), or by frightful or oppressive dreams, from which
            one wakes after extreme anxiety, in a troubled state of
            mind; incubus. --Dunglison.
  
      3. Hence, any overwhelming, oppressive, or stupefying
            influence.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nightman \Night"man\, n.; pl. {Nightmen}.
      One whose business is emptying privies by night.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nighttime \Night"time`\, n.
      The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to {daytime}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noctambulation \Noc*tam`bu*la"tion\, n. [L. nox, noctis, night +
      ambulare to walk: cf. F. noctambulation.]
      Somnambulism; walking in sleep. --Quain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noctambulism \Noc*tam"bu*lism\, n.
      Somnambulism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noctambulist \Noc*tam"bu*list\, n.
      A somnambulist.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noctambulo \Noc*tam"bu*lo\, n.
      A noctambulist. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nook-shotten \Nook"-shot`ten\, a.
      Full of nooks, angles, or corners. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
  
               That nook-shotten isle of Albion.            --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nugation \Nu*ga"tion\, n. [Cf. OF. nugation.]
      The act or practice of trifling. [R.] --Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nycthemeron \Nyc*the"me*ron\, n. [Gr. [?]; [?], [?], night + [?]
      day.]
      The natural day and night, or space of twenty-four hours.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Stanton, PA (borough, FIPS 54104)
      Location: 40.22165 N, 79.60901 W
      Population (1990): 2081 (943 housing units)
      Area: 10.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 15672

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Sweden, ME
      Zip code(s): 04762

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Weston, OH (village, FIPS 55818)
      Location: 40.33704 N, 84.64398 W
      Population (1990): 148 (59 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 45348

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nicktown, PA
      Zip code(s): 15762

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nightmute, AK (city, FIPS 53930)
      Location: 60.44828 N, 164.80407 W
      Population (1990): 153 (36 housing units)
      Area: 251.7 sq km (land), 11.8 sq km (water)

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   night mode n.   See {phase} (of people).
  
  

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   Nightmare File System n.   Pejorative hackerism for Sun's
   Network File System (NFS).   In any nontrivial network of Suns where
   there is a lot of NFS cross-mounting, when one Sun goes down, the
   others often freeze up.   Some machine tries to access the down one,
   and (getting no response) repeats indefinitely.   This causes it to
   appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is that it
   is locked up in what should have been a brief excursion to a higher
   {spl} level).   Then another machine tries to reach either the down
   machine or the pseudo-down machine, and itself becomes pseudo-down.
   The first machine to discover the down one is now trying both to
   access the down one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is
   even harder to reach.   This situation snowballs very quickly, and
   soon the entire network of machines is frozen -- worst of all, the
   user can't even abort the file access that started the problem!
   Many of NFS's problems are excused by partisans as being an
   inevitable result of its statelessness, which is held to be a great
   feature (critics, of course, call it a great {misfeature}).   (ITS
   partisans are apt to cite this as proof of Unix's alleged bogosity;
   ITS had a working NFS-like shared file system with none of these
   problems in the early 1970s.)   See also {broadcast storm}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   negation by failure
  
      An {extralogical} feature of {Prolog} and other {logic
      programming} languages in which failure of {unification} is
      treated as establishing the negation of a {relation}.   For
      example, if Ronald Reagan is not in our {database} and we
      asked if he was an American, Prolog would answer "no".
  
      (1994-11-29)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   NeXT, Inc.
  
      The company founded by {Steve Jobs} [in ?] following
      his involuntary departure from {Apple Computer, Inc.}.   NeXT
      produced both the hardware and {operating system}
      ({NEXTSTEP}).   They changed their name to "NeXT Software" when
      they stopped making hardware and released NEXTSTEP For {Intel}
      processors.   The company was bought by Apple in 1997(?).
  
      (1999-11-25)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   NIC.DDN.MIL
  
      {Defense Data Network}'s {Network Information
      Center}.
  
      (1996-02-13)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   night mode
  
      See {phase} (of people).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Nightmare File System
  
      Pejorative hackerism for {Sun}'s {Network File System} (NFS).
      In any nontrivial network of Suns where there is a lot of NFS
      {cross-mount}ing, when one Sun goes down, the others often
      freeze up.   Some machine tries to access the down one, and
      (getting no response) repeats indefinitely.   This causes it to
      appear dead to some messages (what is actually happening is
      that it is locked up in what should have been a brief
      excursion to a higher {spl} level).   Then another machine
      tries to reach either the down machine or the pseudo-down
      machine, and itself becomes pseudo-down.   The first machine to
      discover the down one is now trying both to access the down
      one and to respond to the pseudo-down one, so it is even
      harder to reach.   This situation snowballs very quickly, and
      soon the entire network of machines is frozen - worst of
      all, the user can't even abort the file access that started
      the problem!
  
      Many of NFS's problems are excused by partisans as being an
      inevitable result of its {stateless}ness, which is held to be
      a great feature (critics, of course, call it a great
      {misfeature}).   {ITS} partisans are apt to cite this as proof
      of {Unix}'s alleged bogosity; ITS had a working NFS-like
      shared file system with none of these problems in the early
      1970s.   See also {broadcast storm}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Nqthm
  
      The language used in the {Boyer-Moore} {theorem prover}.
  
      ["Proving Theorems About LISP Functions", R.S. Boyer et al
      JACM 22(1):129-144 (Jan 1975)].
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nehushtan
      of copper; a brazen thing a name of contempt given to the
      serpent Moses had made in the wilderness (Num. 21:8), and which
      Hezekiah destroyed because the children of Israel began to
      regard it as an idol and "burn incense to it." The lapse of
      nearly one thousand years had invested the "brazen serpent" with
      a mysterious sanctity; and in order to deliver the people from
      their infatuation, and impress them with the idea of its
      worthlessness, Hezekiah called it, in contempt, "Nehushtan," a
      brazen thing, a mere piece of brass (2 Kings 18:4).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nicodemus
      the people is victor, a Pharisee and a member of the Sanhedrin.
      He is first noticed as visiting Jesus by night (John 3:1-21) for
      the purpose of learning more of his doctrines, which our Lord
      then unfolded to him, giving prominence to the necessity of
      being "born again." He is next met with in the Sanhedrin
      (7:50-52), where he protested against the course they were
      taking in plotting against Christ. Once more he is mentioned as
      taking part in the preparation for the anointing and burial of
      the body of Christ (John 19:39). We hear nothing more of him.
      There can be little doubt that he became a true disciple.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nehushtan, a trifling thing of brass
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nicodemus, victory of the people
  
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