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.

Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

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.

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.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.

In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely.

The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.

Naughtily; wrongly.

Having little or nothing.

Same as naumachy.

A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight put on by the ancient Romans.

A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

Of or pertaining to Nauru; as, Nauruan artifacts.

The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.

A substance which produces nausea; an emetic.

To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.

The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.

Causing nausea; nauseous.

Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.

An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.

Nautical.

Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affairs.

Shaped like the hull of a ship.

A natural family of spiral-shelled cephalopods.

A fossil nautilus.

Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell. A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae.

The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture.

Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.

Naval affairs.

The commander of a fleet.

Nautical skill or experience.

The name of a naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827), at which the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by the allied fleet.

Of or pertaining to Navarre. A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre.

The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.

The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.