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.

Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.

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.

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.

The arrangement or distribution of nerves, as in the leaves of a plant or the wings of an insect; nervation; venation.

See Axis cylinder, under Axis.

Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

same as neuropharmacologic.

A nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.

The delicate outer sheath of a nerve fiber; the primitive sheath. The perineurium.

The special properties and functions of the nerves; that capacity for transmitting a stimulus which belongs to nerves.

A poisonous organic base (a ptomaine) formed in the decomposition of protagon with boiling baryta water, and in the putrefaction of proteid matter. It was for a long time considered identical with choline, a crystalline body originally obtained from bile. Chemically, however, choline is oxyethyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide, while neurine is vinyl-trimethyl-ammonium hydroxide.

Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.

Inflammation of a nerve.

Between the neural arch and the centrum of a vertebra; as, the neurocentral suture.

Pertaining to, or giving rise to, the central nervous system and epidermis; as, the neuroepidermal, or epiblastic, layer of the blastoderm.

See Neurocord.

Nerve force.

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm.

The delicate connective tissue framework which supports the nervous matter and blood vessels of the brain and spinal cord; called also K/lliker's reticulum. It is composed of cells which are not neurons. Once thought to serve merely a supporting funciton, they are now believed to have important metablolic functions. Among them are the astrocytes, ependymal cells, oligodendroglia cells, and microglia cells.

A description of the nerves.

A substance, resembling keratin, present in nerve tissue, as in the sheath of the axis cylinder of medullated nerve fibers. Like keratin it resists the action of most chemical agents, and by decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and tyrosin.

Of or pertaining to neurology.

One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.

The branch of science which treats of the nervous system.

A tumor developed on, or connected with, a nerve, esp. one consisting of new-formed nerve fibers.

A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.

Nervomuscular.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis; myelencephalon.

Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease.

An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve.

acting upon or influencing nervous functions; -- of chemical substances.

A neuropodous animal.