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   nagami
         n 1: shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats [syn: {nagami}, {nagami
               kumquat}, {oval kumquat}, {Fortunella margarita}]

English Dictionary: noisome by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nagano
n
  1. a city in central Honshu to the northwest of Tokyo; site of a Buddhist shrine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Naja hannah
n
  1. large cobra of southeastern Asia and the East Indies; the largest venomous snake; sometimes placed in genus Naja
    Synonym(s): hamadryad, king cobra, Ophiophagus hannah, Naja hannah
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nasion
n
  1. the craniometric point at the bridge of the nose where the frontal and nasal bones of the skull meet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
neocon
n
  1. a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism [syn: neoconservative, neocon]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
New Guinea
n
  1. a Pacific island to the north of Australia; the 2nd largest island in the world; the western part is governed by Indonesia and the eastern part is Papua New Guinea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nguni
n
  1. a group of southern Bantu languages
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
niacin
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]:
Nicaean
adj
  1. of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor
    Synonym(s): Nicaean, Nicene
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nicene
adj
  1. of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor
    Synonym(s): Nicaean, Nicene
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nisan
n
  1. the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April)
    Synonym(s): Nisan, Nissan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nissan
n
  1. the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April)
    Synonym(s): Nisan, Nissan
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Nixon
n
  1. vice president under Eisenhower and 37th President of the United States; resigned after the Watergate scandal in 1974 (1913-1994)
    Synonym(s): Nixon, Richard Nixon, Richard M. Nixon, Richard Milhous Nixon, President Nixon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
no-see-um
n
  1. minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects
    Synonym(s): punkie, punky, punkey, no-see-um, biting midge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Noachian
adj
  1. of or relating to Noah or his time; "Noachian deluge"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noggin
n
  1. informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noisome
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
  2. offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky"
    Synonym(s): fetid, foetid, foul, foul- smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill- scented
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nagana \Na*ga"na\, n. [Prob. native name.] (Med.)
      The disease caused by the tsetse fly. [South Africa]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neocene \Ne"o*cene\, a. [Neo- + Gr. [?] new.] (Geol.)
      More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the
      Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neog91an \Ne`o*g[91]"an\, a. [Neo- + Gr. [?] earth.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neogen \Ne"o*gen\, n. [Neo- + -gen.] (Chem.)
      An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper,
      zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium,
      and bismuth. --Ure.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Neossine \Ne*os"sine\, n. [Gr. neossia` a bird's nest.]
      The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Chum \Chum\, n.
  
      {New chum}, a recent immigrant. [Australia] Chupatty
   \Chu*pat"ty\, n.; pl. {-ties}. [Hind. chap[be]t[c6].]
      A kind of griddlecake of unleavened bread, used among the
      natives of India. [Anglo-Indian]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Newcome \New"come`\, a.
      Recently come.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cyanate \Cy"a*nate\ (s?"?-n?t), n. [Cf. F. cuanate. See
      {Cyanic}.] (Chem.)
      A salt of cyanic acid.
  
      {Ammonium cyanate} (Chem.), a remarkable white crystalline
            substance, {NH4.O.CN}, which passes, on standing, to the
            organic compound, urea, {CO.(NH2)2}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nicene \Ni"cene\, a. [L. Nicaenus, fr. Nicaea Nice, Gr. [?].]
      Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the
      ecumenial council held there A. D. 325.
  
      {Nicene Creed}, a summary of Christian faith, composed and
            adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, A. D.
            325, altered and confirmed by the Council of
            Constantinople, A. D. 381, and by subsequent councils.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Abib \[d8]A"bib\, n. [Heb. ab[c6]b, lit. an ear of corn. The
      month was so called from barley being at that time in ear.]
      The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year,
      corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish
      captivity this month was called {Nisan}. --Kitto.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Nizam \[d8]Ni*zam"\, n.; pl. {Nizam}. [Turk. niz[be]m.]
      A regular soldier of the Turkish army. See {Army
      organization}, above.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Canny \Can"ny\, Cannei \Can"nei\, a. [Cf. Icel. kenn skilled,
      learned, or E. canny. Cf. {Kenn}.] [North of Eng. & Scot.]
      1. Artful; cunning; shrewd; wary.
  
      2. Skillful; knowing; capable. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      3. Cautious; prudent; safe.. --Ramsay.
  
      4. Having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle. --Burns.
  
      5. Reputed to have magical powers. --Sir W. Scott.
  
      {No canny}, not safe, not fortunate; unpropitious. [Scot.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noachian \No*a"chi*an\, a.
      Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noggen \Nog"gen\, a. [Prop., made of hemp, fr. Prov. E. nogs
      hemp.]
      Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh. [Obs.] --Johnson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noggin \Nog"gin\, n. [Ir. noigin, or Gael. noigean. Cf. lst
      {Nog}.]
      1. A small mug or cup.
  
      2. A measure equivalent to a gill. [Prov. Eng.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Noisome \Noi"some\, a. [For noysome, fr. noy for annoy. See
      {Annoy}.]
      1. Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome;
            insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
            [bd]Noisome pestilence.[b8] --Ps. xci. 3.
  
      2. Offensive to the smell or other senses; disgusting; fetid.
            [bd]Foul breath is noisome.[b8] --Shak. -- {Noi"some*ly},
            adv. -- {Noi"some*ness}, n.
  
      Syn: Noxious; unwholesome; insalubrious; mischievous;
               destructive.
  
      Usage: {Noisome}, {Noxious}. These words have to a great
                  extent been interchanged; but there is a tendency to
                  make a distinction between them, applying noxious to
                  things that inflict evil directly; as, a noxious
                  plant, noxious practices, etc., and noisome to things
                  that operate with a remoter influence; as, noisome
                  vapors, a noisome pestilence, etc. Noisome has the
                  additional sense of disqusting. A garden may be free
                  from noxious weeds or animals; but, if recently
                  covered with manure, it may be filled with a noisome
                  smell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sand \Sand\, n. [AS. sand; akin to D. zand, G. sand, OHG. sant,
      Icel. sandr, Dan. & Sw. sand, Gr. [?].]
      1. Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not
            reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose
            grains, which are not coherent when wet.
  
                     That finer matter, called sand, is no other than
                     very small pebbles.                           --Woodward.
  
      2. A single particle of such stone. [R.] --Shak.
  
      3. The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of
            time; the term or extent of one's life.
  
                     The sands are numbered that make up my life. --Shak.
  
      4. pl. Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of
            Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed
            by the ebb of the tide. [bd]The Libyan sands.[b8]
            --Milton. [bd]The sands o' Dee.[b8] --C. Kingsley.
  
      5. Courage; pluck; grit. [Slang]
  
      {Sand badger} (Zo[94]l.), the Japanese badger ({Meles
            ankuma}).
  
      {Sand bag}.
            (a) A bag filled with sand or earth, used for various
                  purposes, as in fortification, for ballast, etc.
            (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by
                  assassins.
  
      {Sand ball}, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use
            at the toilet.
  
      {Sand bath}.
            (a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which
                  vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed.
            (b) A bath in which the body is immersed in hot sand.
  
      {Sand bed}, a thick layer of sand, whether deposited
            naturally or artificially; specifically, a thick layer of
            sand into which molten metal is run in casting, or from a
            reducing furnace.
  
      {Sand birds} (Zo[94]l.), a collective name for numerous
            species of limicoline birds, such as the sandpipers,
            plovers, tattlers, and many others; -- called also {shore
            birds}.
  
      {Sand blast}, a process of engraving and cutting glass and
            other hard substances by driving sand against them by a
            steam jet or otherwise; also, the apparatus used in the
            process.
  
      {Sand box}.
            (a) A box with a perforated top or cover, for sprinkling
                  paper with sand.
            (b) A box carried on locomotives, from which sand runs on
                  the rails in front of the driving wheel, to prevent
                  slipping.
  
      {Sand-box tree} (Bot.), a tropical American tree ({Hura
            crepitans}). Its fruit is a depressed many-celled woody
            capsule which, when completely dry, bursts with a loud
            report and scatters the seeds. See Illust. of {Regma}.
  
      {Sand bug} (Zo[94]l.), an American anomuran crustacean
            ({Hippa talpoidea}) which burrows in sandy seabeaches. It
            is often used as bait by fishermen. See Illust. under
            {Anomura}.
  
      {Sand canal} (Zo[94]l.), a tubular vessel having a calcareous
            coating, and connecting the oral ambulacral ring with the
            madreporic tubercle. It appears to be excretory in
            function.
  
      {Sand cock} (Zo[94]l.), the redshank. [Prov. Eng.]
  
      {Sand collar}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Sand saucer}, below.
  
      {Sand crab}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The lady crab.
            (b) A land crab, or ocypodian.
  
      {Sand crack} (Far.), a crack extending downward from the
            coronet, in the wall of a horse's hoof, which often causes
            lameness.
  
      {Sand cricket} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of
            large terrestrial crickets of the genus {Stenophelmatus}
            and allied genera, native of the sandy plains of the
            Western United States.
  
      {Sand cusk} (Zo[94]l.), any ophidioid fish. See {Illust.}
            under {Ophidioid}.
  
      {Sand dab} (Zo[94]l.), a small American flounder ({Limanda
            ferruginea}); -- called also {rusty dab}. The name is also
            applied locally to other allied species.
  
      {Sand darter} (Zo[94]l.), a small etheostomoid fish of the
            Ohio valley ({Ammocrypta pellucida}).
  
      {Sand dollar} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            flat circular sea urchins, which live on sandy bottoms,
            especially {Echinarachnius parma} of the American coast.
           
  
      {Sand drift}, drifting sand; also, a mound or bank of drifted
            sand.
  
      {Sand eel}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A lant, or launce.
            (b) A slender Pacific Ocean fish of the genus
                  {Gonorhynchus}, having barbels about the mouth.
  
      {Sand flag}, sandstone which splits up into flagstones.
  
      {Sand flea}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) Any species of flea which inhabits, or breeds in,
                  sandy places, especially the common dog flea.
            (b) The chigoe.
            (c) Any leaping amphipod crustacean; a beach flea, or
                  orchestian. See {Beach flea}, under {Beach}.
  
      {Sand flood}, a vast body of sand borne along by the wind.
            --James Bruce.
  
      {Sand fluke}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The sandnecker.
            (b) The European smooth dab ({Pleuronectes
                  microcephalus}); -- called also {kitt}, {marysole},
                  {smear dab}, {town dab}.
  
      {Sand fly} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of small
            dipterous flies of the genus {Simulium}, abounding on
            sandy shores, especially {Simulium nocivum} of the United
            States. They are very troublesome on account of their
            biting habits. Called also {no-see-um}, {punky}, and
            {midge}.
  
      {Sand gall}. (Geol.) See {Sand pipe}, below.
  
      {Sand grass} (Bot.), any species of grass which grows in
            sand; especially, a tufted grass ({Triplasis purpurea})
            with numerous bearded joints, and acid awl-shaped leaves,
            growing on the Atlantic coast.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglone \Ju"glone\, n. [L. juglans the walnut + -one.] (Chem.)
      A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted
      from green shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}); -- called
      also {nucin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nucin \Nu"cin\, n. [L. nux, nucis, a nut.] (Chem.)
      See {Juglone}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Juglone \Ju"glone\, n. [L. juglans the walnut + -one.] (Chem.)
      A yellow crystalline substance resembling quinone, extracted
      from green shucks of the walnut ({Juglans regia}); -- called
      also {nucin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nucin \Nu"cin\, n. [L. nux, nucis, a nut.] (Chem.)
      See {Juglone}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nakina, NC
      Zip code(s): 28455

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nason, IL (city, FIPS 51726)
      Location: 38.17629 N, 88.96595 W
      Population (1990): 235 (102 housing units)
      Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 62866

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Negaunee, MI (city, FIPS 56860)
      Location: 46.49974 N, 87.59687 W
      Population (1990): 4741 (2067 housing units)
      Area: 35.7 sq km (land), 2.3 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 49866

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nekoma, KS
      Zip code(s): 67559
   Nekoma, ND (city, FIPS 55740)
      Location: 48.57605 N, 98.37612 W
      Population (1990): 63 (51 housing units)
      Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Neskowin, OR
      Zip code(s): 97149

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Caney, TX
      Zip code(s): 77357

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Cuyama, CA
      Zip code(s): 93254

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   New Zion, SC
      Zip code(s): 29111

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Niskayuna, NY (CDP, FIPS 51275)
      Location: 42.81715 N, 73.89801 W
      Population (1990): 4942 (2051 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 12309

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nixon, NV
      Zip code(s): 89424
   Nixon, PA (CDP, FIPS 54552)
      Location: 40.78323 N, 79.92973 W
      Population (1990): 1342 (463 housing units)
      Area: 6.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   Nixon, TX (city, FIPS 51588)
      Location: 29.26926 N, 97.76186 W
      Population (1990): 1995 (720 housing units)
      Area: 2.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 78140

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Nocona, TX (city, FIPS 51648)
      Location: 33.78352 N, 97.72998 W
      Population (1990): 2870 (1457 housing units)
      Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 76255

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Noxen, PA
      Zip code(s): 18636

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Noxon, MT
      Zip code(s): 59853

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nachon
      prepared, the owner of a thrashing-floor near which Uzzah was
      slain (2 Sam. 6:6); called also Chidon (1 Chr. 13:9).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nahshon
      sorcerer, the son of Aminadab, and prince of the children of
      Judah at the time of the first numbering of the tribes in the
      wilderness (Ex. 6:23). His sister Elisheba was the wife of
      Aaron. He died in the wilderness (Num. 26:64, 65). His name
      occurs in the Greek form Naasson in the genealogy of Christ
      (Matt, 1:4; Luke 3:32).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Neginah
      in the title of Ps. 61, denotes the music of stringed
      instruments (1 Sam. 16:16; Isa. 38:20). It is the singular form
      of Neginoth.
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Nisan
      month of flowers, (Neh. 2:1) the first month of the Jewish
      sacred year. (See {ABIB}.) Assyrian nisannu,
      "beginning."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Naashon, that foretells; that conjectures
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nachon, ready; sure
  

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

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nason, helper; entry-way
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Nisan, standard; miracle
  
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