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   Nag Hammadi
         n 1: a town in Upper Egypt
         2: a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from
            Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the
            town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct
            works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of
            Gnosticism [syn: {Nag Hammadi}, {Nag Hammadi Library}]

English Dictionary: no-count by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nag Hammadi Library
n
  1. a collection of 13 ancient papyrus codices translated from Greek into Coptic that were discovered by farmers near the town of Nag Hammadi in 1945; the codices contain 45 distinct works including the chief sources of firsthand knowledge of Gnosticism
    Synonym(s): Nag Hammadi, Nag Hammadi Library
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Naismith
n
  1. United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)
    Synonym(s): Naismith, James Naismith
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nascent
adj
  1. being born or beginning; "the nascent chicks"; "a nascent insurgency"
    Antonym(s): dying
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nauseant
n
  1. a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant]
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neck and neck
adv
  1. even or close in a race or competition or comparison; "the horses ran neck and neck"; "he won nip and tuck"
    Synonym(s): neck and neck, head-to-head, nip and tuck
adj
  1. inconclusive as to outcome; close or just even in a race or comparison or competition; "as they approached the finish line they were neck and neck"; "the election was a nip and tuck affair"
    Synonym(s): neck and neck, head-to- head, nip and tuck
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nescient
adj
  1. holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
    Synonym(s): nescient, unbelieving
  2. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
    Synonym(s): ignorant, nescient, unlearned, unlettered
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
news media
n
  1. newspapers and magazines collectively [syn: journalism, news media]
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Nguyen Tat Thanh
n
  1. Vietnamese communist statesman who fought the Japanese in World War II and the French until 1954 and South Vietnam until 1975 (1890-1969)
    Synonym(s): Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Tat Thanh
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nicandra
n
  1. sturdy annual of Peru
    Synonym(s): Nicandra, genus Nicandra
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nicandra physaloides
n
  1. coarse South American herb grown for its blue-and-white flowers followed by a bladderlike fruit enclosing a dry berry
    Synonym(s): apple of Peru, shoo fly, Nicandra physaloides
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nissen hut
n
  1. a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section
    Synonym(s): Nissen hut, Quonset hut
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no-account
adj
  1. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no- good piece of junk"
    Synonym(s): good-for-nothing, good-for- naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no- good, sorry
n
  1. an idle worthless person [syn: goldbrick, goof-off, {ne 'er-do-well}, good-for-nothing, no-account, good-for- naught]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
no-count
adj
  1. without merit; "a sorry horse"; "a sorry excuse"; "a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick"; "the car was a no- good piece of junk"
    Synonym(s): good-for-nothing, good-for- naught, meritless, no-account, no-count, no- good, sorry
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Noachian deluge
n
  1. (Biblical) the great deluge that is said in the Book of Genesis to have occurred in the time of Noah; it was brought by God upon the earth because of the wickedness of human beings
    Synonym(s): Noah's flood, Noachian deluge, Noah and the Flood, the Flood
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nocent
adj
  1. having a tendency to cause harm
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nook and cranny
n
  1. something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science"
    Synonym(s): nook and cranny, nooks and crannies
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nooks and crannies
n
  1. something remote; "he explored every nook and cranny of science"
    Synonym(s): nook and cranny, nooks and crannies
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be
      born. See {Nation}, and cf. {Naissant}.]
      1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to
            exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
  
                     Nascent passions and anxieties.         --Berkley.
  
      2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
  
      {Nascent state} (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or
            momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just
            separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with
            another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly
            active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent
            state is a strong reducer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be
      born. See {Nation}, and cf. {Naissant}.]
      1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to
            exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
  
                     Nascent passions and anxieties.         --Berkley.
  
      2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.
  
      {Nascent state} (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or
            momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just
            separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with
            another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly
            active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent
            state is a strong reducer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   State \State\, n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. [82]tat, fr. L.
      status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See
      {Stand}, and cf. {Estate}, {Status}.]
      1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any
            given time.
  
                     State is a term nearly synonymous with [bd]mode,[b8]
                     but of a meaning more extensive, and is not
                     exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent.
                                                                              --Sir W.
                                                                              Hamilton.
  
                     Declare the past and present state of things.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
                     Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle.
  
      2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
  
                     Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak.
  
      3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous
            circumstances; social importance.
  
                     She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet
                     with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon.
  
                     Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all
                     his state, descend, and serve again?   --Pope.
  
      4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
  
                     Where least og state there most of love is shown.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais;
            a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.]
  
                     His high throne, . . . under state Of richest
                     texture spread.                                 --Milton.
  
                     When he went to court, he used to kick away the
                     state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
                                                                              --Swift.
  
      6. Estate, possession. [Obs.] --Daniel.
  
                     Your state, my lord, again in yours.   --Massinger.
  
      7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer.
  
      8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a
            community of a particular character; as, the civil and
            ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal
            and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. {Estate}, n., 6.
  
      9. The principal persons in a government.
  
                     The bold design Pleased highly those infernal
                     states.                                             --Milton.
  
      10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country;
            as, the States-general of Holland.
  
      11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a
            republic. [Obs.]
  
                     Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states
                     are atheists in their very fame.      --Dryden.
  
      12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of
            people who are united one government, whatever may be the
            form of the government; a nation.
  
                     Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by
                     the supreme power in a state.            --Blackstone.
  
                     The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from
                     their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they
                     found a state without a king, and a church without
                     a bishop.                                          --R. Choate.
  
      13. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies
            politic, the people of which make up the body of the
            nation, and which, under the national constitution,
            stands in certain specified relations with the national
            government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full
            power in their several spheres over all matters not
            expressly inhibited.
  
      Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in
               distinction from the federal system, i. e., the
               government of the United States.
  
      14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity
            between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between
            the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
            [Obs.]
  
      Note: When state is joined with another word, or used
               adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the
               community or body politic, or to the government; also,
               what belongs to the States severally in the American
               Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of
               Iowa.
  
      {Nascent state}. (Chem.) See under {Nascent}.
  
      {Secretary of state}. See {Secretary}, n., 3.
  
      {State barge}a royal barge, or a barge belonging to a
            government.
  
      {State bed}, an elaborately carved or decorated bed.
  
      {State carriage}, a highly decorated carriage for officials
            going in state, or taking part in public processions.
  
      {State paper}, an official paper relating to the interests or
            government of a state. --Jay.
  
      {State prison}, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called
            also {State's prison}.
  
      {State prisoner}, one is confinement, or under arrest, for a
            political offense.
  
      {State rights}, [or] {States' rights}, the rights of the
            several independent States, as distinguished from the
            rights of the Federal government. It has been a question
            as to what rights have been vested in the general
            government. [U.S.]
  
      {State's evidence}. See {Probator}, 2, and under {Evidence}.
           
  
      {State sword}, a sword used on state occasions, being borne
            before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.
  
      {State trial}, a trial of a person for a political offense.
           
  
      {States of the Church}. See under {Ecclesiastical}.
  
      Syn: {State}, {Situation}, {Condition}.
  
      Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the
                  mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation
                  of a thing is its state in reference to external
                  objects and influences; its condition is its internal
                  state, or what it is in itself considered. Our
                  situation is good or bad as outward things bear
                  favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is
                  good or bad according to the state we are actually in
                  as respects our persons, families, property, and other
                  things which comprise our sources of enjoyment.
  
                           I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my
                           sister's state Secure without all doubt or
                           controversy.                                 --Milton.
  
                           We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our
                           situation, might be called the luxuries of life.
                                                                              --Cock.
  
                           And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than
                           his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?
                                                                              --Cowley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nauseant \Nau"se*ant\, n. [L. nauseans, p. pr. Of nauseare.]
      (Med.)
      A substance which produces nausea.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neck \Neck\, n. [OE. necke, AS. hnecca; akin to D. nek the nape
      of the neck, G. nacken, OHG. nacch, hnacch, Icel. hnakki, Sw.
      nacke, Dan. nakke.]
      1. The part of an animal which connects the head and the
            trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more
            slender than the trunk.
  
      2. Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or
            resembling the neck of an animal; as:
            (a) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of
                  a fruit, as a gourd.
            (b) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main
                  body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
            (c) (Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar
                  instrument, which extends from the head to the body,
                  and on which is the finger board or fret board.
  
      3. (Mech.) A reduction in size near the end of an object,
            formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the
            journal of a shaft.
  
      4. (Bot.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant
            arises from the root.
  
      {Neck and crop}, completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and
            at once. [Colloq.]
  
      {Neck and neck} (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be
            said to be before the other; very close; even; side by
            side.
  
      {Neck of a capital}. (Arch.) See {Gorgerin}.
  
      {Neck of a cascabel} (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the
            base of the breech.
  
      {Neck of a gun}, the small part of the piece between the
            chase and the swell of the muzzle.
  
      {Neck of a tooth} (Anat.), the constriction between the root
            and the crown.
  
      {Neck or nothing} (Fig.), at all risks.
  
      {Neck verse}.
            (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the
                  benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the
                  fifty-first Psalm, [bd]Miserere mei,[b8] etc. --Sir W.
                  Scott.
            (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which
                  decides one's fate; a shibboleth.
  
                           These words, [bd]bread and cheese,[b8] were
                           their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish
                           them; all pronouncing [bd]broad and cause,[b8]
                           being presently put to death.      --Fuller.
  
      {Neck yoke}.
            (a) A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or
                  carriage is suspended from the collars of the
                  harnesses.
            (b) A device with projecting arms for carrying things (as
                  buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's
                  shoulders.
  
      {On the neck of}, immediately after; following closely.
            [bd]Commiting one sin on the neck of another.[b8] --W.
            Perkins.
  
      {Stiff neck}, obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible
            obstinacy; contumacy. [bd]I know thy rebellion, and thy
            stiff neck.[b8] --Deut. xxxi. 27.
  
      {To break the neck of}, to destroy the main force of.
            [bd]What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous
            rules . . . breaks the neck of their own cause.[b8]
            --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Crop \Crop\ (kr?p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant,
      harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin
      to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the
      body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a
      bird, Ir. & Gael. sgroban. Cf. {Croup}, {Crupper}, {Croup}.]
      1. The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving
            as a receptacle for food; the craw.
  
      2. The top, end, or highest part of anything, especially of a
            plant or tree. [Obs.] [bd]Crop and root.[b8] --Chaucer.
  
      3. That which is cropped, cut, or gathered from a single
            felld, or of a single kind of grain or fruit, or in a
            single season; especially, the product of what is planted
            in the earth; fruit; harvest.
  
                     Lab'ring the soil, and reaping plenteous crop, Corn,
                     wine, and oil.                                    --Milton.
  
      4. Grain or other product of the field while standing.
  
      5. Anything cut off or gathered.
  
                     Guiltless of steel, and from the razor free, It
                     falls a plenteous crop reserved for thee. --Dryden.
  
      6. Hair cut close or short, or the act or style of so
            cutting; as, a convict's crop.
  
      7. (Arch.) A projecting ornament in carved stone.
            Specifically, a finial. [Obs.]
  
      8. (Mining.)
            (a) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
            (b) Outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface. --Knight.
  
      9. A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash.
  
      {Neck and crop}, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Heel \Heel\, n. [OE. hele, heele, AS. h[emac]la, perh. for
      h[omac]hila, fr. AS. h[omac]h heel (cf. {Hough}); but cf. D.
      hiel, OFries. heila, h[emac]la, Icel. h[91]ll, Dan. h[91]l,
      Sw. h[84]l, and L. calx. [root]12. Cf. {Inculcate}.]
      1. The hinder part of the foot; sometimes, the whole foot; --
            in man or quadrupeds.
  
                     He [the stag] calls to mind his strength and then
                     his speed, His winged heels and then his armed head.
                                                                              --Denham.
  
      2. The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a
            shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting
            downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or
            shoe.
  
      3. The latter or remaining part of anything; the closing or
            concluding part. [bd]The heel of a hunt.[b8] --A.
            Trollope. [bd]The heel of the white loaf.[b8] --Sir W.
            Scott.
  
      4. Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape; a
            protuberance; a knob.
  
      5. The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human
            heel; the lower part, or part on which a thing rests;
            especially:
            (a) (Naut.) The after end of a ship's keel.
            (b) (Naut.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit,
                  the sternpost, etc.
            (c) (Mil.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is
                  upwards in the firing position.
            (d) (Mil.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword,
                  next to the hilt.
            (e) The part of any tool next the tang or handle; as, the
                  heel of a scythe.
  
      6. (Man.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred
            heel; as, the horse understands the heel well.
  
      7. (Arch.)
            (a) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or
                  rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse
                  angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping.
            (b) A cyma reversa; -- so called by workmen. --Gwilt.
  
      {Heel chain} (Naut.), a chain passing from the bowsprit cap
            around the heel of the jib boom.
  
      {Heel plate}, the butt plate of a gun.
  
      {Heel of a rafter}. (Arch.) See {Heel}, n., 7.
  
      {Heel ring}, a ring for fastening a scythe blade to the
            snath.
  
      {Neck and heels}, the whole body. (Colloq.)
  
      {To be at the heels of}, to pursue closely; to follow hard;
            as, hungry want is at my heels. --Otway.
  
      {To be down at the heel}, to be slovenly or in a poor plight.
           
  
      {To be out at the heels}, to have on stockings that are worn
            out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. --Shak.
  
      {To cool the heels}. See under {Cool}.
  
      {To go heels over head}, to turn over so as to bring the
            heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or
            rash, manner.
  
      {To have the heels of}, to outrun.
  
      {To lay by the heels}, to fetter; to shackle; to imprison.
            --Shak. --Addison.
  
      {To show the heels}, to flee; to run from.
  
      {To take to the heels}, to flee; to betake to flight.
  
      {To throw up another's heels}, to trip him. --Bunyan.
  
      {To tread upon one's heels}, to follow closely. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neck \Neck\, n. [OE. necke, AS. hnecca; akin to D. nek the nape
      of the neck, G. nacken, OHG. nacch, hnacch, Icel. hnakki, Sw.
      nacke, Dan. nakke.]
      1. The part of an animal which connects the head and the
            trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more
            slender than the trunk.
  
      2. Any part of an inanimate object corresponding to or
            resembling the neck of an animal; as:
            (a) The long slender part of a vessel, as a retort, or of
                  a fruit, as a gourd.
            (b) A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main
                  body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.
            (c) (Mus.) That part of a violin, guitar, or similar
                  instrument, which extends from the head to the body,
                  and on which is the finger board or fret board.
  
      3. (Mech.) A reduction in size near the end of an object,
            formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the
            journal of a shaft.
  
      4. (Bot.) the point where the base of the stem of a plant
            arises from the root.
  
      {Neck and crop}, completely; wholly; altogether; roughly and
            at once. [Colloq.]
  
      {Neck and neck} (Racing), so nearly equal that one cannot be
            said to be before the other; very close; even; side by
            side.
  
      {Neck of a capital}. (Arch.) See {Gorgerin}.
  
      {Neck of a cascabel} (Gun.), the part joining the knob to the
            base of the breech.
  
      {Neck of a gun}, the small part of the piece between the
            chase and the swell of the muzzle.
  
      {Neck of a tooth} (Anat.), the constriction between the root
            and the crown.
  
      {Neck or nothing} (Fig.), at all risks.
  
      {Neck verse}.
            (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a party to the
                  benefit of clergy, said to be the first verse of the
                  fifty-first Psalm, [bd]Miserere mei,[b8] etc. --Sir W.
                  Scott.
            (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which
                  decides one's fate; a shibboleth.
  
                           These words, [bd]bread and cheese,[b8] were
                           their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish
                           them; all pronouncing [bd]broad and cause,[b8]
                           being presently put to death.      --Fuller.
  
      {Neck yoke}.
            (a) A bar by which the end of the tongue of a wagon or
                  carriage is suspended from the collars of the
                  harnesses.
            (b) A device with projecting arms for carrying things (as
                  buckets of water or sap) suspended from one's
                  shoulders.
  
      {On the neck of}, immediately after; following closely.
            [bd]Commiting one sin on the neck of another.[b8] --W.
            Perkins.
  
      {Stiff neck}, obstinacy in evil or wrong; inflexible
            obstinacy; contumacy. [bd]I know thy rebellion, and thy
            stiff neck.[b8] --Deut. xxxi. 27.
  
      {To break the neck of}, to destroy the main force of.
            [bd]What they presume to borrow from her sage and virtuous
            rules . . . breaks the neck of their own cause.[b8]
            --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neckerchief \Neck"er*chief\, n. [For neck kerchief.]
      A kerchief for the neck; -- called also {neck handkerchief}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Box \Box\ (b[ocr]ks), n. [As. box, L. buxus, fr. Gr. [?]. See
      {Box} a case.] (Bot.)
      A tree or shrub, flourishing in different parts of the world.
      The common box ({Buxus sempervirens}) has two varieties, one
      of which, the dwarf box ({B. suffruticosa}), is much used for
      borders in gardens. The wood of the tree varieties, being
      very hard and smooth, is extensively used in the arts, as by
      turners, engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc.
  
      {Box elder}, the ash-leaved maple ({Negundo aceroides}), of
            North America.
  
      {Box holly}, the butcher's broom ({Russus aculeatus}).
  
      {Box thorn}, a shrub ({Lycium barbarum}).
  
      {Box tree}, the tree variety of the common box.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neo-Kantian \Ne`o-Kant"i*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to Neo-Kantianism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neo-Kantian \Neo-Kantian\, n.
      An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neo-Kantianism \Ne`o-Kant"i*an*ism\, n.
      The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his
      general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German
      philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp,
      and others.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Apple \Ap"ple\ ([acr]p"p'l), n. [OE. appel, eppel, AS. [91]ppel,
      [91]pl; akin to Fries. & D. appel, OHG, aphul, aphol, G.
      apfel, Icel. epli, Sw. [84]ple, Dan. [91]ble, Gael. ubhall,
      W. afal, Arm. aval, Lith. ob[uring]lys, Russ. iabloko; of
      unknown origin.]
      1. The fleshy pome or fruit of a rosaceous tree ({Pyrus
            malus}) cultivated in numberless varieties in the
            temperate zones.
  
      Note: The European crab apple is supposed to be the original
               kind, from which all others have sprung.
  
      2. (bot.) Any tree genus {Pyrus} which has the stalk sunken
            into the base of the fruit; an apple tree.
  
      3. Any fruit or other vegetable production resembling, or
            supposed to resemble, the apple; as, apple of love, or
            love apple (a tomato), balsam apple, egg apple, oak apple.
  
      4. Anything round like an apple; as, an apple of gold.
  
      Note: Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as,
               apple paper or apple-paper, apple-shaped, apple
               blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding.
  
      {Apple blight}, an aphid which injures apple trees. See
            {Blight}, n.
  
      {Apple borer} (Zo[94]l.), a coleopterous insect ({Saperda
            candida [or] bivittata}), the larva of which bores into
            the trunk of the apple tree and pear tree.
  
      {Apple brandy}, brandy made from apples.
  
      {Apple butter}, a sauce made of apples stewed down in cider.
            --Bartlett.
  
      {Apple corer}, an instrument for removing the cores from
            apples.
  
      {Apple fly} (Zo[94]l.), any dipterous insect, the larva of
            which burrows in apples. Apple flies belong to the genera
            {Drosophila} and {Trypeta}.
  
      {Apple midge} (Zo[94]l.) a small dipterous insect ({Sciara
            mali}), the larva of which bores in apples.
  
      {Apple of the eye}, the pupil.
  
      {Apple of discord}, a subject of contention and envy, so
            called from the mythological golden apple, inscribed
            [bd]For the fairest,[b8] which was thrown into an assembly
            of the gods by Eris, the goddess of discord. It was
            contended for by Juno, Minerva, and Venus, and was
            adjudged to the latter.
  
      {Apple of love}, or {Love apple}, the tomato ({Lycopersicum
            esculentum}).
  
      {Apple of Peru}, a large coarse herb ({Nicandra physaloides})
            bearing pale blue flowers, and a bladderlike fruit
            inclosing a dry berry.
  
      {Apples of Sodom}, a fruit described by ancient writers as
            externally of fair appearance but dissolving into smoke
            and ashes when plucked; Dead Sea apples. The name is often
            given to the fruit of {Solanum Sodom[91]um}, a prickly
            shrub with fruit not unlike a small yellow tomato.
  
      {Apple sauce}, stewed apples. [U. S.]
  
      {Apple snail} or {Apple shell} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water,
            operculated, spiral shell of the genus {Ampullaria}.
  
      {Apple tart}, a tart containing apples.
  
      {Apple tree}, a tree which naturally bears apples. See
            {Apple, 2.}
  
      {Apple wine}, cider.
  
      {Apple worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a small moth
            ({Carpocapsa pomonella}) which burrows in the interior of
            apples. See {Codling moth}.
  
      {Dead Sea Apple}.
            (a) pl. Apples of Sodom. Also Fig. [bd]To seek the Dead
                  Sea apples of politics.[b8] --S. B. Griffin.
            (b) A kind of gallnut coming from Arabia. See {Gallnut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nocent \No"cent\, a. [L. nocens, p. pr. of nocere to hurt. See
      {Nuisance}, {Noxious}.]
      1. Doing hurt, or having a tendency to hurt; hurtful;
            mischievous; noxious; as, nocent qualities. --I. Watts.
  
      2. Guilty; -- the opposite of innocent. [Obs.] --Foxe.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nocent \No"cent\, n.
      A criminal. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nocently \No"cent*ly\, adv.
      Hurtfully; injuriosly. [R.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nesmith, SC
      Zip code(s): 29580

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Ness County, KS (county, FIPS 135)
      Location: 38.47543 N, 99.91556 W
      Population (1990): 4033 (2048 housing units)
      Area: 2783.8 sq km (land), 0.7 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Canton, IL (town, FIPS 52311)
      Location: 39.63818 N, 91.09779 W
      Population (1990): 405 (194 housing units)
      Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62356
   New Canton, VA
      Zip code(s): 23123

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Centerville, PA (borough, FIPS 53416)
      Location: 39.94106 N, 79.19199 W
      Population (1990): 211 (84 housing units)
      Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Kent, VA
      Zip code(s): 23124

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Kent County, VA (county, FIPS 127)
      Location: 37.50620 N, 76.99779 W
      Population (1990): 10445 (3968 housing units)
      Area: 543.5 sq km (land), 36.1 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nye County, NV (county, FIPS 23)
      Location: 38.04984 N, 116.45109 W
      Population (1990): 17781 (8073 housing units)
      Area: 47001.4 sq km (land), 32.3 sq km (water)

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Neginoth
      i.e., songs with instrumental accompaniment, found in the titles
      of Ps. 4; 6; 54; 55; 67; 76; rendered "stringed instruments,"
      Hab. 3:19, A.V. It denotes all kinds of stringed instruments, as
      the "harp," "psaltery," "viol," etc. The "chief musician on
      Neginoth" is the leader of that part of the temple choir which
      played on stringed instruments.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Neginoth, stringed instruments
  
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