Shipwreck; ruin.
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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.
A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also belly button in humans. See Umbilicus.
The umbilical cord.
A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort.
A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica.
The navicular bone.
The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.
Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.
To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.
The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.
of or pertaining to navigation; used in navigation; as, navigational aids.
One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.
Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Having a color of navy blue.
A dark grayish blue. Also called navy.
A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.
An awl.
No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. Opposed to aye or yea. See also Yes.
To refuse.
A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepal and Tibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.
To refuse; to deny.
The negative side.
A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.
A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.
A Jew bound by a vow to leave the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.
The state of a Nazarite.
Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites.
The vow and practice of a Nazarite.
A promontory or headland.
A Nazarite.
Nor.
a contraction of Never.
A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing.
See 2d Neif.
The fist.
To be tempered by heat.
uncouth in manners or appearance.
A neanderthal human being; a member of the race Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; as, neanderthals were shorter than modern humans.
Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man. pertaining to or designating the Neanderthal race, or Neanderthal man, a species of extinct robust humans, believed to have been widespread in the Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia; as, a Neanderthal skull.
same as Neanderthal{1}.
Like, or pertaining to, the Neanderthal skull, or the type of man it represents.
A neap tide.
Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.
Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy. A native or citizen of Naples.
To draw near; to approach.
Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling.
situated near; as, the nearby towns. Opposite of far away.
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.
less distant in space; as, we walked to the nearer house.
Near; near at hand; closely.
In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost; as, he nearly lost his life in the accident.
The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.
An eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability, such that one can see only close objects distinctly; the condition of being nearsighted. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd.
A building for the shelter of neat cattle.
To make neat.
In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
The state or quality of being neat.
A woman who takes care of cattle.
The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Same as Bablh.
A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.)
A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance.
The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
A resident of the state of Nebraska.
A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. The term was originally applied to any diffuse luminous region. Now, technically, it is applied to interstellar clouds of dust and gases (diffuse nebula). However distant galaxies and very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope, such as the spiral nebula in Andromeda, known now to be a distant galaxy.
Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.
The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
A little cloud; a cloud.
The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.
To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
An atomizer.
Nebulous; cloudy.
The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Cloudy; hazy; misty.
A line or a decoration composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resemble a cloud. See N/bul/
Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.
In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
The quality of being necessary.
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