A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta); essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota. They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food.

The slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista.

A former term for the natural family Cyanophyceae.

A phylum of the vegetable kingdom consisting of the class Myxomycetes. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

An order of sporozoans.

An organism of the order Myxosporidia, mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens.

The Marsipobranchiata.

An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.

A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.

No, not. See No.

A family of North American Indian languages including Tlingit, the Athabascan language family, and Haida.

To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

Pulverized sugar candy.

The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.

A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

A pale red color, with a cast of orange.

A small boat.

A tortilla chip topped with cheese and often chili-pepper or beans and then broiled; -- eaten as a snack or light meal.

See Nacre.

Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacr/ ware.

Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

Nothing.

An adder.

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

See Nenia.

A naevus.

Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.

Spotted; freckled.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- the term includes moles as wells a other types of birthmark, and is most commonly applied to reddish or brownish raised vascular areas of the skin, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.

A shrub (Fortunella margarita) bearing oval-fruited kumquats. See also kumquat.

A disease of horses and other domestic animals, transmitted by the tsetse fly; any trypanosomiasis, especially the variety caused by Trypanosoma brucei.

A small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea.

Someone (especially a woman) who constantly finds fault.

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

Irritable; touchy.

A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.

A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.

A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers.

See Natant.

Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.

Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.

To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.

Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.

A brush for cleaning the nails.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

A woman who makes nails.

Without nails; having no nails.

A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

See Naiad.

Same as Jessant.

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, na/ve manners; a na/ve person; na/ve and unsophisticated remarks.

In a na/ve manner.

The state or quality of being naive; lack of sophistication or worldliness.

Na/vet/.

A genus of cobras.

A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers; same as Naiadaceae; the naiad family.

To make naked.

In a naked manner; without covering or disguise; manifestly; simply; barely.

The condition of being naked.

A kind of kettledrum.

The gavial.

Ale; also, an alehouse.

An awl.

imp. of Nim.

Capable of being named.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding.

A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid.

To give a distinctive name or appellation to; to entitle; to denominate; to style; to call.

The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress one's listener.

given or having a specified name; as, an actor named Harold Lloyd; a building in Cardiff named the Temple of Peace. Contrasted to unnamed.

To refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire so as to impress them; same as to drop names.

Someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends. Someone who namedrops.

one of the most important fungi (Pholiota nameko) cultivated in Japan.

Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.

In a nameless manner.

By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly.

One who names, or calls by name.

One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

The Sumerian goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth.

No more.

A demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind.

Anan.

Grandmother.

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia, especially the smallest, Pterocnemia pennata (formerly Rhea Americana), called also the common rhea. They are tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed, found from Peru to the Straits of Magellan. See Rhea.

The condition of being abnormally small in stature; dwarfism; dwarfishness; -- opposed to gigantism.

A species of cloth, of a firm texture, originally brought from China, made of a species of cotton (Gossypium religiosum) that is naturally of a brownish yellow color quite indestructible and permanent.

a former capital of China.

The wife of Balder.

a caretaker for a child; a child's nurse; a nursemaid.

A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

See Sheepberry.

A prefix meaning one-billionth; as, a nanogram is one-thousandth of a microgram.

The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller.

The magpie.

A white sauce with whipping cream and shrimp butter.

A term used by modern archaeologists instead of cella. See Cella.

Same as Napoleon, 1, below.

A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack.

A plant (Brassica rapa pekinensis) with an elongated celerylike head of broadstalked leaves used as a vegetable in east Asia; called also Chinese cabbage.

A genus consisting of only one species, the glade mallow.

A highly incediary liquid consisting of gasoline jelled with aluminum soaps, used as a weapon of war in fire bombs and flame throwers.

The back part of the neck.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.

See Navew.

The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a specific gravity of about 0.7, -- used as a solvent for varnishes, as a carburetant, illuminant, etc.

A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate.

A white crystalline aromatic hydrocarbon, C10H8, analogous to benzene, and obtained by the distillation of certain bituminous materials, such as the heavy oil of coal tar. It is the type and basis of a large number of derivatives among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline.

Pertaining to , or derived from, naphthalene; -- used specifically to designate a yellow crystalline substance, called naphthalenic acid and also hydroxy quinone, and obtained from certain derivatives of naphthol.

Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- formerly used to denote any one of a series of acids derived from naphthalene, and called naphthalene acids, now specifically referring to 1,8-naphthalenedicaboxylic acid, C12H8O4. Formerly, designating an acid probably identical with phthalic acid.

Same as Naphthylamine.

See Naphthalene.

To mingle, saturate, or impregnate, with naphtha.