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.

The ventral lobe or branch of a parapodium.

Having the limbs on, or directed toward, the neural side, as in most invertebrates; -- opposed to haemapodous.

An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.

the branch of psychology that is concerned with the physiological bases of psychological processes.

One of the Neuroptera.

An order of hexapod insects having two pairs of large, membranous, net-veined wings. The mouth organs are adapted for chewing. They feed upon other insects, and undergo a complete metamorphosis. The ant-lion, hellgamite, and lacewing fly are examples. Formerly, the name was given to a much more extensive group, including the true Neuroptera and the Pseudoneuroptera.

Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.

Neuropteral.

Pertaining to, or forming, both nerves and sense organs.

A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

Of or pertaining to the neuroskeleton.

The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are in relation with the nervous axis and locomotion.

A puppet.

A disease seated in the nerves.

An instrument for cutting or dissecting nerves.

Of or pertaining to neurotomy.

One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the nervous system.

An affinity for neural tissues.

An embryo of certain invertebrates in the stage when the primitive band is first developed.

A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; -- in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.

Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes.

The sterilization of an animal.

A person or a nation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral.

Same as neutralization.

a policy of neutrality or nonalignment in international affairs.

A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

The state or quality of being neutral; the condition of being unengaged in contests between others; state of taking no part on either side; indifference.

The act or process of neutralizing, or the state of being neutralized.

To render neutral; to reduce to a state of neutrality.

One who, or that which, neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises, or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.

In a neutral manner; without taking part with either side; indifferently.

One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes.

A branch of philosophy, introduced by Florentin Smarandache in 1980, which studies the origin, nature, and scope of neutralities, as well as their interactions with different ideational spectra. Neutrosophy considers a proposition, theory, event, concept, or entity, /A/ in relation to its opposite, /Anti-A/ and that which is not A, /Non-A/, and that which is neither /A/ nor /Anti-A/, denoted by /Neut-A/. Neutrosophy is the basis of neutrosophic logic, neutrosophic probability, neutrosophic set, and neutrosophic statistics.

Prayers offered up for nine successive days.

A resident of Nevada.

A granitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

The upper part of a glacier, above the limit of perpetual snow. See Glacier.

To name; to mention; to utter.

Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.

endless or seemingly endless; as, the never-ending search for happiness.

Incapable of being subdued.

Never again; at no time hereafter.

Nevertheless.

Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet.

Nephew.

To make new; to renew.

Any form of belief in mental healing, other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. It was practised in the 19th century, and its central principle was affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. As a therapeutic doctrine it stands for silent and absent mental treatment, and the theory that all diseases are mental in origin. As a cult it has its unifying idea the inculcation of workable optimism in contrast with the /old thought/ of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England.

Fresh. Opposite of stale.

To remodel.

having just or recently arisen or come into existence.

Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year; as, New-year gifts or odes.

A language spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal.

A baby recently born, usually less than one month old; a neonate.

A town in England.

Recently come.

One who has lately come.

The upright post about which the steps of a circular staircase wind; hence, in stairs having straight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. Also called newel post. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.

Most recent.

To change by introducing novelties.

Newly made; of a new type or fashion; formed with the affectation of novelty; -- sometimes used to express disapproval or disdain.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Newfangledness.

One who is eager for novelties or desirous of change.

In a newfangled manner; with eagerness for novelty.