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.

A lasso cell, or thread cell. See Lasso cell, under Lasso.

A phylum of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. They are mostly parasites, in plants and animals, but some are free-living in soil or water. Also called Nematoidea.

Any worm of the phylum Nematoda; a roundworm; -- they are unsegmented worms having a cylindrical elongated body. They may live freely in soil or water, or as parasites in plants or animals.

One of the dimorphic forms of the species of Dicyemata, which produced vermiform embryos; -- opposed to rhombogene.

One of the Nematognathi.

An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

Of or pertaining to the Nematoda. One of the Nematoda. See Illustration in Appendix.

A phylum of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. Called also Nematodea, and more commonly Nematoda. Formerly, it was classed as a taxonomic order.

Nematoid.

Same as Coelenterata.

Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.

Of or pertaining to the Nemertina. One of the Nemertina.

A genus of Nemertina.

Nemertean.

Nemertean.

Nemertina.

An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.

Any of an order (Nemertina) of soft unsegmented marine worms having an eversible threadlike proboscis and the ability to stretch and contract.

The goddess of retribution or vengeance; hence, retributive justice personified; divine vengeance.

One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods.

Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods.

Of or pertaining to a wood or grove.

Woody.

To name or call.

Called; named.

The ichneumon.

A funeral song; an elegy.

The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphaea alba.

Rationalism.

The theory which holds natural selection, as explained by Darwin, to be the chief factor in the evolution of plants and animals, and denies the inheritance of acquired characters; -- esp. opposed to Neo-Lamarckism. Weismannism is an example of extreme Neo-Darwinism.

A member of a body of French painters (F. les n/o-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.

An adherent of Neo-Hegelianism.

The philosophy of a school of British and American idealists who follow Hegel in dialectical or logical method and in the general outcome of their doctrine. The founders and leaders of Neo-Hegelianism include: in England, T. H. Green (1836-1882); in Scotland, J. Caird (1820-98) and E. Caird (1835-1908); in the United States, W. T. Harris (1835-1909) and Josiah Royce (1855- -).

Same as Romaic.

Hellenism as surviving or revival in modern times; the practice or pursuit of ancient Greek ideals in modern life, art, or literature, as in the Renaissance.

An adherent of Neo-Kantianism.

The philosophy of modern thinkers who follow Kant in his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above).

Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.

Designating, or pertaining to, a group of modern economists who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births.

Of or pert. to Neo-Scholasticism.

The modern revival of the Scholastic philosophy, esp. of that of Thomas Aquinas, with critical revision to suit the exigencies of the general advance in learning. The Neo-Scholastic movement received a great impetus from Leo XIII.'s interest in it.

The modern, or true, Crustacea, as distinguished from the Merostomata.

More recent than the Eocene, that is, including both the Miocene and Pliocene divisions of the Tertiary.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival or adaptation of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, style, taste and manner of work in architecture, arts, literature, etc.

a revival of the classical Greek and Roman style in art or literature.

an advocate of neoclassicism.

Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures. In contrast to colonialism, in which one country controls another territory by military force.

Of or pertaining to the lower greensand.

The cortical part of the neencephalon; the most recently evolved part of the cerebral cortex of the brain of higher animals, and the site of most of the higher brain functions; called also neopallium.

Of or pertaining to the neocortex.

Of or pertaining to the universe in its present state; specifically, pertaining to the races of men known to history.

Government by new or inexperienced hands; upstart rule; raw or untried officials.

The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.

In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service.

The chemical element of atomic number 60, one of the rare earth elements. Symbol Nd. Atomic weight 144.27.

Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.

A person recently married.

An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.

One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions.

A new method or system of writing.

A political orientation originating in the 1960s, blending liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth.

Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone; the late stone age. Estimated as beginning around 9000 b. c. in the Middle East, this period is characterized by the beginnings of farming, the domestication of animals, and the manufacture of textiles and pottery.

A neologist.

Neologism.

Of or pertaining to neology; employing new words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines.

In a neological manner.

The introduction of new words, or the use of old words in a new sense.

One who introduces new words or new senses of old words into a language.

Of or pertaining to neology; neological.

The act or process of neologizing.

To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.

The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.

The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

A division of vermiform gastropod mollusks, without a shell, belonging to the Isopleura.

A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a preexisting form.

of or pertaining to a neonate; as, neonatal care; a neonatal unit at a hospital.

A newborn child, especially one less than one month old.

Neologism.

Of or pertaining to the Neonomians, or in accordance with their doctrines.

The doctrines or belief of the neonomians.

Revived or new paganism.

The neocortex.

A new convert or proselyte; -- a name given by the early Christians, and still given by the Roman Catholics, to such as have recently embraced the Christian faith, and been admitted to baptism, esp. to converts from heathenism or Judaism.

Growth or development of new material; neoplasty.

A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.

A Neoplatonist.

A pantheistic eclectic school of philosophy, of which Plotinus was the chief (a. d. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.