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   narcoterrorism
         n 1: the financing of terrorist activities by participation in
               the drug trade

English Dictionary: nearest	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
narcotic adj of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor" inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" Synonym(s): narcotic, narcotizing, narcotising inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" Synonym(s): narcotic, soporiferous, soporific n a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction
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narcotic antagonist n an antagonist used to counteract the effects of narcotics (especially to counteract the depression of respiration)
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narcotics agent n a lawman concerned with narcotics violations [syn: narc, nark, narcotics agent]
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narcotise v administer narcotics to Synonym(s): narcotize, narcotise
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narcotised adj under the influence of narcotics; "knocked out by doped wine"; "a drugged sleep"; "were under the effect of the drugged sweets"; "in a stuperous narcotized state" Synonym(s): doped, drugged, narcotized, narcotised
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narcotising adj inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" [syn: narcotic, narcotizing, narcotising]
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narcotize v administer narcotics to Synonym(s): narcotize, narcotise
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narcotized adj under the influence of narcotics; "knocked out by doped wine"; "a drugged sleep"; "were under the effect of the drugged sweets"; "in a stuperous narcotized state" Synonym(s): doped, drugged, narcotized, narcotised
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narcotizing adj inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" [syn: narcotic, narcotizing, narcotising]
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narcotraffic n traffic in illegal drugs [syn: drug traffic, {drug trafficking}, narcotraffic]
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Nares Deep n a depression in the floor of the Atlantic Ocean to the north of Haiti and Puerto Rico
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Near East n the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century; "the Middle East is the cradle of Western civilization" Synonym(s): Middle East, Mideast, Near East
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nearest adv (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance; "that was the time he came nearest to death" Synonym(s): nearest, nighest, closest
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nearside n the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb
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neurasthenia n nervous breakdown (not in technical use)
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neurasthenic adj of or relating to or suffering from neurasthenia; "neurasthenic tendencies" n a person suffering a nervous breakdown
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neurectomy n surgical removal of all or part of a nerve
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New Year's Day n the first day of the year [syn: New Year's Day, {New Year's}, January 1]
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New York City n the largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center Synonym(s): New York, New York City, Greater New York
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New York State n a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: New York, New York State, Empire State, NY]
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New York State Barge Canal n a system of canals crossing New York State and connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River and Lake Champlain
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New York Stock Exchange n a stock exchange in New York [syn: {New York Stock Exchange}, N. Y. Stock Exchange, NYSE, big board]
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New York strip n steak from upper part of the short loin [syn: {strip steak}, New York strip]
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nor'-east adv to, toward, or in the northeast [syn: northeast, north-east, nor'-east] n the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees Synonym(s): northeast, nor'-east, northeastward, NE
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nor'-west adv to, toward, or in the northwest [syn: northwest, north-west, nor'-west] n the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees Synonym(s): northwest, nor'-west, northwestward, NW
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Nor-Q-D n trade name for an oral contraceptive containing norethindrone
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noreaster n a storm blowing from the northeast [syn: northeaster, noreaster]
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Norse deity n a deity worshipped by the ancient Norsemen
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Norwich terrier n English breed of small short-legged terrier with a straight wiry red or grey or black-and-tan coat and erect ears
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nourished adj being provided with adequate nourishment [ant: malnourished]
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nursed adj (of an infant) breast-fed Synonym(s): nursed, suckled
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Curlew \Cur"lew\ (k[ucir]r"l[umac]), n. [F. courlieu, corlieu, courlis; perh. of imitative origin, but cf. OF. corlieus courier; L. currere to run + levis light.] (Zo[94]l.) A wading bird of the genus {Numenius}, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is {N. arquatus}. The long-billed ({N. longirostris}), the Hudsonian ({N. Hudsonicus}), and the Eskimo curlew ({N. borealis}, are American species. The name is said to imitate the note of the European species. {Curlew Jack} (Zo[94]l.) the whimbrel or lesser curlew. {Curlew sandpiper} (Zo[94]l.), a sandpiper ({Tringa ferruginea, [or] subarquata}), common in Europe, rare in America, resembling a curlew in having a long, curved bill. See Illustation in Appendix.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotine \Nar"co*tine\, n. [Cf. F. narcotine. Cf. {Cotarnine}.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also {narcotia}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotic \Narcot"ic\, a. [F. narcotique, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- {Narcot"ic*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotic \Nar*cot"ic\, n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium. Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotical \Narcot"ical\, a. Narcotic. -- {Narcot"ical*ly}, adv.
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Narcotical \Narcot"ical\, a. Narcotic. -- {Narcot"ical*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotic \Narcot"ic\, a. [F. narcotique, Gr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?][?], fr. [?][?][?][?][?][?][?] to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic. -- {Narcot"ic*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotine \Nar"co*tine\, n. [Cf. F. narcotine. Cf. {Cotarnine}.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also {narcotia}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotinic \Nar`co*tin"ic\, a. Pertaining to narcotine.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotism \Nar"co*tism\, n. [Cf. F. narcotisme.] Narcosis; the state of being narcotized. --G. Eliot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotize \Nar"co*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narcotized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Narcotizing}.] To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotize \Nar"co*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narcotized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Narcotizing}.] To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narcotize \Nar"co*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Narcotized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Narcotizing}.] To imbue with, or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Narrow \Nar"row\, a. [Compar. {Narrower}; superl. {Narrowest}.] [OE. narwe, naru, AS. nearu; akin to OS. naru, naro.] 1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as, a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow hem. Hath passed in safety through the narrow seas. --Shak. 2. Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed. The Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world. --Bp. Wilkins. 3. Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority. --Dryden. 4. Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances. 5. Contracted; of limited scope; illiberal; bigoted; as, a narrow mind; narrow views. [bd]A narrow understanding.[b8] --Macaulay. 6. Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish. A very narrow and stinted charity. --Smalridge. 7. Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. --Milton. 8. (Phon.) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as [c7] ([c7]ve) and [oomac] (f[oomac]d), etc., from [cc] ([cc]ll) and [oocr] (f[oocr]t), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 13. Note: Narrow is not unfrequently prefixed to words, especially to participles and adjectives, forming compounds of obvious signification; as, narrow-bordered, narrow-brimmed, narrow-breasted, narrow-edged, narrow-faced, narrow-headed, narrow-leaved, narrow-pointed, narrow-souled, narrow-sphered, etc. {Narrow gauge}. (Railroad) See Note under {Gauge}, n., 6.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nearctic \Ne*arc"tic\, a. [Neo + arctic.] Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Near \Near\, a. [Compar. {Nearer}; superl. {Nearest}.] [See {Near}, adv.] 1. Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. [bd]As one near death.[b8] --Shak. He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear. --Dryden. 2. Closely connected or related. She is thy father's near kinswoman. --Lev. xviii. 12. 3. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend. 4. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original. 5. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow; as, a near escape. 6. Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See {Off side}, under {Off}, a. 7. Immediate; direct; close; short. [bd]The nearest way.[b8] --Milton. 8. Close-fisted; parsimonious. [Obs. or Low, Eng.] Note: Near may properly be followed by to before the thing approached'; but more frequently to is omitted, and the adjective or the adverb is regarded as a preposition. The same is also true of the word nigh. Syn: Nigh; close; adjacent; proximate; contiguous; present; ready; intimate; dear.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Neurocd2le \Neu"ro*c[d2]le\, n. [Neuro- + Ge. [?] a hollow.] (Anat.) The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.
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Neurocity \Neuroc"ity\, n. (Physiol.) Nerve force.
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New Year's Day \New" Year's` Day"\ the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to {New year's} or {new year}.
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Nourish \Nour"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nourished}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nourishing}.] [OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir, nurrir, norir, F. norrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. {Nurse}, {Nutriment}, and see {-ish}.] 1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. --Is. xliv. 14. 2. To support; to maintain. Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band. --Shak. 3. To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. [bd]Nourish their contentions.[b8] --Hooker. 4. To cherish; to comfort. Ye have nourished your hearts. --James v. 5. 5. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. --Chaucer. Nourished up in the words of faith. --1 Tim. iv. 6. Syn: To cherish; feed; supply. See {Nurture}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nurse \Nurse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nursed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Nursing}.] 1. To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as: (a) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. (b) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon. Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. --Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. --Dryden. 2. To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. [bd]To nurse the saplings tall.[b8] --Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? --Locke. 3. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. 4. To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. --A. Trollope. {To nurse billiard balls}, to strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nurstle \Nurs"tle\, v. t. To nurse. See {Noursle}. [Obs.]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Nerstrand, MN (city, FIPS 45196) Location: 44.34075 N, 93.06247 W Population (1990): 210 (84 housing units) Area: 3.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55053
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Norcatur, KS (city, FIPS 50925) Location: 39.83459 N, 100.18800 W Population (1990): 198 (118 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67653
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Norris City, IL (village, FIPS 53403) Location: 37.97947 N, 88.32824 W Population (1990): 1341 (678 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 62869
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Norristown, PA (borough, FIPS 54656) Location: 40.12215 N, 75.33973 W Population (1990): 30749 (13080 housing units) Area: 9.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 19401
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
New York State Educational Reasearch ETwork (NYSERNET) A New York {Internet} access provider and regional network. NYSERNet has been in the Internet business since about 1985 and have recently upgraded to a {T3} backbone (45 megabits per second). They work with {Sprint}, {NYNEX} and Rochester Telephone. NYSERNet, Inc., provides Internet Training provided through the NYSERNet Internet Training and Education Center (NITEC), a twenty-four station hands-on facility in Syracuse, NY. The Information Services Group supplies tools for marketing via the {Internet} and NYSERNET also provide Technical Consulting Services. {Home (http://nysernet.org/)}. E-mail: . (1995-02-01)