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Navigability

The quality or condition of being navigable; navigableness.

Navigable

Capable of being navigated; deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to vessels; as, a navigable river.

Navigate

To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic.

Navigation

The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

navigational

of or pertaining to navigation; used in navigation; as, navigational aids.

Navigator

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.

Navigerous

Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.

Navvy

Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.

Navy

Having a color of navy blue.

Navy blue

A dark grayish blue. Also called navy.

Nawab

A deputy ruler or viceroy in India; also, a title given by courtesy to other persons of high rank in the East.

nay

No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. Opposed to aye or yea. See also Yes.

Nayaur

A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii), native of Nepal and Tibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff beneath the neck.

Nayt

To refuse; to deny.

Nayword

A byword; a proverb; also, a watchword.

Nazarene

A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.

Nazarite

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.

Nazaritic

Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites.

naze

A promontory or headland.

Ne'er

a contraction of Never.

Ne'er-do-well

A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing.

Neal

To be tempered by heat.

Neanderthal

A neanderthal human being; a member of the race Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; as, neanderthals were shorter than modern humans.

Neanderthal man Neanderthal race Neanderthal

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.

Neanderthaloid

Like, or pertaining to, the Neanderthal skull, or the type of man it represents.

Neaped

Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

Neapolitan

Of of pertaining to Naples in Italy. A native or citizen of Naples.

Near

To draw near; to approach.

Near-legged

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling.

nearby

situated near; as, the nearby towns. Opposite of far away.

Nearctic

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.

nearer

less distant in space; as, we walked to the nearer house.

Nearly

In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost; as, he nearly lost his life in the accident.

Nearness

The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

Nearsighted

Seeing distinctly at short distances only; myopic; shortsighted.

Nearsightedness

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.

Neat

Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.

Neatherd

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd.

Neathouse

A building for the shelter of neat cattle.

Neatly

In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

neatness

The state or quality of being neat.

Neatress

A woman who takes care of cattle.

Neb

The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.

Nebalia

A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.)

Nebbish

A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance.

Nebo

The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.

Nebraskan

A resident of the state of Nebraska.

Nebula

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.

Nebular

Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.

nebulated

Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

nebulation

The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.

nebule

A little cloud; a cloud.

Nebulize

To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.

Nebulosity

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness.

Nebuly

A line or a decoration composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resemble a cloud. See N/bul/

Nebuly Nebule

Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

Necessarianism

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.

Necessarily

In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.

Necessary

A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

Necessitarianism

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; determinism.

Necessitate

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unavoidable.

Necessitattion

The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion.

Necessitous

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

Necessity

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

Neck

To reduce the diameter of (an object) near its end, by making a groove around it; -- used with down; as, to neck down a shaft.

neck

To kiss and caress amorously.

Neckband

A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.

Neckcloth

A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

Necked

Having (such) a neck; -- chiefly used in composition; as, stiff-necked.

Neckerchief

A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.

necklace

A string of beads, etc., or any continuous band or chain, worn around the neck as an ornament.

necklaced

Wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace.

neckless

lacking or apparently lacking a neck; -- of a garment; as, a neckless gown.

Neckmould Neckmold

A small convex molding surrounding a column at the junction of the shaft and capital.

Necktie

A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.

Neckwear

A collective term for cravats, collars, etc.

Neckweed

An American annual weed (veronica peregrina), with small white flowers and a roundish pod. The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals.

Necrobiosis

The death of a part of an organism by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy; a normal dying out of cells in a tissue, in contrast to necrosis.

Necrobiotic

Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis.

Necrological Necrologic

Of or pertaining to necrology; of the nature of necrology; relating to, or giving, an account of the dead, or of deaths.

Necrology

An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.

Necromancer

One who practices necromancy; a sorcerer; a wizard.

Necromancy

The art of revealing future events by means of a pretended communication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general; conjuration; enchantment. See Black art.

Necronite

Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.

Necrophagan

Eating carrion. Any species of a tribe (Necrophaga) of beetles which, in the larval state, feed on carrion; a burying beetle.

Necrophagous

Of or pertaining to the Necrophaga; eating carrion. See Necrophagan.

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