Same as Nepenthe.

A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.

Giants.

An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter.

Of or pertaining to a nephridium.

A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. It varies in color from white to dark green. It is the more common and less valuable variety of jade, the other being jadeite. Large deposits are found in Australia. Called also nephritic stone. See also Jade.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

An inflammation of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to kidney stones, or renal calculi.

A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

A natural family in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae.

The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

The goddess associated with ritual of the dead; sister of Geb and Nut; wife of Set.

Any plant of the genus Nephthytis.

A natural family of water scorpions.

Of or relating to a nephew.

Of or pertaining to nepotism.

Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.

One who practices nepotism.

The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.

As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.

One who adopts the Neptunian theory.

A radioactive metallic element of atomic number 93, produced in nuclear reactors from Plutonium or Uranium. Symbol Np; The atomic weight of the most stable isotope is 237.0482.

Nearer.

A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.

A Nereid. See Nereid.

Fossil tracks of annelids.

A genus of gigantic seaweeds.

The id.

A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.

Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

Relating to the belt or region of shallow water adjoining the seacost; as, neritic fauna.

An operculate seasnail of coastal waters with a short spiral shell.

A natural family comprising the neritids.

A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.

The most important salmon of Alaska (Oncorhinchus nerka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; -- called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.

A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.

A beautiful black marble found in fragments among Roman ruins, and usually thought to have come from ancient Laconia.

An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.

Nearer.

The Teutonic goddess of fertility; later identified with Norse Njord.

Nerved.

The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.

One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.

To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.

Extremely irritating to the nerves; stressful; trying; as, nerve-wracking noise.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shocked.

Same as nerve-racking.

Destitute of nerves.

The state of being nerveless.

The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.

Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.

Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. A nervine agent.

Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.

Same as Nerved.

Nervousness.

Possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

In a nervous manner.

State or quality of being nervous.

One of the nerves of leaves.

Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body.

Strong; sinewy.

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

Nose.

Soft; tender; delicate.

A promontory; a cape; a headland.

To treat or test, as a liquid, with a solution of mercuric iodide in potassium iodide and potassium hydroxide, which is called Nessler's solution or Nessler's test, and is used to detect the presence of ammonia.

To put into a nest; to form a nest for.

An egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it, and to induce her to lay more in the same place.

As much or many as will fill a nest.

To house, as in a nest.

Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

A genus of parrots with gray heads, of New Zealand and Papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

Of or relating to the Nestorians.

The doctrines of the Nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.

To produce or gain as clear profit; as, he netted a thousand dollars by the operation.

Having veins, or nerves, reticulated or netted; as, a net-veined wing or leaf.

A team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post.

An astrophyton.

Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper.

Lower, nether.

Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss.

Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.

To render neat; to clean; to put in order.

In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.

remaining after all deductions; same as net a., 3. Contrasted to gross.

resembing a net or a web.

Urine.

To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

the European whitethroat.

One who nettles.

The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting. Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams. Reef points.

same as irritating, 1.

Stinging; irritating.

Like a net, or network; netted.

A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

To connect together into a network; as, to network computers; to network the printer with computers.

Interchanging information or services, among a group; -- of persons or organizations.

having a network of veins or ribs.

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufch/tel-en-Bray in France.

Toward the neural side; -- opposed to haemad.

relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal.

A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.

Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.

Neuralgia.

Of or pertaining to a neurapophysis.

One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch. The dorsal process of the neural arch; neural spine; spinous process.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.