The dissection of dead bodies; also, excision of necrosed bone.

The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.

Nectareous.

Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.

Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar.

Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean.

Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.

Having a nectary.

Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.

A smooth-skinned variety of peach.

To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten.

Nectareous.

That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.

The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa. One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ.

The cavity of a nectocalyx.

That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.

An adder.

A pet name for a donkey.

Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth (i.e. her maiden name); as, Madame de Stael, n/e Necker.

Of necessity. See Needs.

necessary; as, provided them with all needed equipment. Opposite of unnecessary.

One who needs anything.

Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing.

In a needy condition or manner; necessarily.

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.

Pointed as needles.

A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.

A shrub (Hakea lissosperma) of eastern Australia, with pungent rigid needle-shaped leaves and white flowers.

A case to keep needles.

An article or articles created or assembled by needle and thread; needlework.

The European great pipefish (Siphostoma acus or Syngnathus acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish. The garfish.

As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.

One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles.

Having no need.

Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.

A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.

A large bushy shrub (Hakea leucoptera) of central and eastern Australia, with pungent pointed leaves and creamy white flowers.

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery, crocheting, quilting, or tapestry, etc.; also, the art, process, or occupation of creating objects with needles.

Necessarily; of necessity.

Something needed or wanted. Outfit; necessary luggage.

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.

Of necessity.

Of necessity.

Distressed by want of the means of living; very poor; indigent; necessitous.

A needle.

See Nylghau.

Nearer.

To sneeze.

Sneezing.

The nave of a church.

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable.

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

Wicked.

A genus of lemon sharks.

The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.

To prove unreal or untrue; to disprove.

In a negative manner; with or by denial.

The quality or state of being negative.

A desert in Southern Israel.

Stringed instruments.

Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.

The state of being neglected.

One who neglects.

Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent.

Carelessly; heedlessly.

The state of being negligent; negligence.

Neglectful.

An easy, unceremonious attire; undress.

The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.

Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order.

In a negligent manner.

That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice.

Business; occupation.

The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.

Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assignment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.

A negotiator.

To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.

The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.

One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public or private compacts.

Of or pertaining to negotiation.

A woman who negotiates.

The state of being busy; multitude of business.

Very busy; attentive to business; active.

The state of being busily occupied; activity.

A black woman; a female negro.

A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.

A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.

Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.

A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.

See Negroid.

A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.

A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes.

A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses.

A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf.

The cry of a horse; a whinny.

To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.

To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.

The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.

The quality or state of being neighborly.

Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. In a neighborly manner.

The state of being neighbors.

The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.

Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coordinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.

The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.

A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa.

Having the form of threads; fibrous.

A fibrous variety of brucite.

Same as Nemathelminthes.

An order of helminths, including the Nematoidea and Gordiacea; the roundworms.

A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores.

A spermatocyte or spermoblast.

One of a peculiar kind of cups, or calicles, found upon hydroids of the family Plumularidae. They contain nematocysts. See Plumularia.

A suborder of dipterous insects, having long antennae, as the mosquito, gnat, and crane fly; -- called also Nemocera.

Having the property of killing nematodes; lethal to nematodes.

A substance that kills nematodes, especially one used in medicine or to kill plant pathogens.