To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident or transaction; to give an account of.

The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; a recital of certain events, usually in chronological order; rehearsal.

That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuous account of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.

In the style of narration.

One who narrates; one who relates a series of events or transactions.

Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters.

Nearer.

To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait.

Of narrow mental scope; lacking tolerance or breadth of view; illiberal; mean. Opposite of broad-minded, open-minded, liberal.

reduced in size as if by being squeezed.

One who, or that which, narrows or contracts.

The act of contracting, or of making or becoming less in breadth or extent.

With little breadth; in a narrow manner.

The condition or quality of being narrow.

A tall umbelliferous plant (Ferula communis). See Giant fennel, under Fennel.

See Narwhal.

Narrow.

An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk, projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

A genus of mammals comprising the proboscis monkeys.

Same as nasalize.

The quality or state of being nasal.

The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.

To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose; to pronounce with a lowered velum.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.

State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla.

Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly.

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

Having the shape of a nose.

The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

Of or pertaining to the nose and the front of the head; as, the embryonic nasofrontal process which forms the anterior boundary of the mouth.

Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct.

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

Of or pertaining to the internasal septum.

Connected with, or near, both the turbinal and the nasal bones; as, the nasoturbinal bone, made up of the uppermost lammelae of the ethmoturbinal, and sometimes united with the nasal. The nasoturbinal bone.

Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidae; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda.

In a nasty manner.

The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.

Same as Nasturtium.

A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

Having a nice sense of smell.

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness.

Not.

Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native.

Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity.

A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

One's birth, or the circumstances attending it.

Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

In a floating manner; swimmingly.

The act of floating on the water; swimming.

The swimming birds.

Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.

Adapted for swimming; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

A swimming bath.

The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump.

A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.

An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.

The buttocks. The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

Nevertheless.

Not the more; never the more.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidae.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticidae.

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

A citizen (of a particular country); as, U. S. nationals are advised to contact their embassy when abroad.

same as nationalization.

The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.

One who advocates national unity and independence; -- as, for example, one of a party favoring Irish independence before 1918.

Fanatically patriotic; chauvinistic.

The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.

The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

In a national manner or way; as a nation.

The quality or state of being national; nationality.

See Legislature.

One who, or that which, is born in a place or country referred to; a denizen by birth; an animal, a fruit, or vegetable, produced in a certain region; as, a native of France; the natives are restless.

By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.

The quality or state of being native.

The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

An advocate of nativism.

Relating to nativism.

The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.

A species of shrike.

The technical name for sodium.

A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.

Native sodium carbonate.

To find fault; to be peevish.

A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.

Neatly dressed; smart; trim; tidy; spruce.

A native; an aboriginal.

a group of living organisms classed as a family in a toxonomic classification.

The combustible gas found associated with petroleum deposits, and also in other geological formations, comprised predominantly of methane plus variable other constitutents. It is an important source of energy, and is transported long distances by pipelines, or in a liquefied state in tankers, for commercial distribution. Some natural gas deposits contain helium, and comprise the primary source of that rare element.

A chemical substance produced by a living organism; -- a term used commonly in reference to chemical substances found in nature that have distinctive pharmacological effects. Such a substance is considered a natural product even if it can be prepared by total synthesis.

That branch of chemistry which deals with the isolation, identification, structure elucidation, and study of the chemical characteristics of chemical substances produced by living organisms.

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of plants or animals; a botanist or zoologist.

Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Nature; naturalness.

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

To become as if native.

Acclimated to a new environment; introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation; -- of plants or animals not native to a location.

In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

To endow with natural qualities.

Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.

Not in accordance with nature; unnatural.

The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism.

The quality or state of being produced by nature.

To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature.

an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls.

A small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves.

Shipwreck; ruin.

causing shipwreck.