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.

Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion.

An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.

Yeast; barm.

Somewhat new; nearly new.

Lately; recently.

A long, closely fitting cloak.

The quality or state of being new; as, the newness of a system; the newness of a scene; newness of life.

A report of recent occurrences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tidings; recent intelligence.

A newspaper.

A circular letter, written or printed for the purpose of disseminating news. This was the name given to the earliest English newspapers.

A seller of newspapers.

One who gathers news for, and writes, news-letters, articles in news periodicals, or items for broadcast on news programs.

A boy who distributes or sells newspapers.

Someone who broadcasts the news.

not having or receiving news or information.

One who brings news.

One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and telling news.

A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers.

A room where news is collected and disseminated, located in the offices of a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast organization; as, the CBS newsroom.

Sufficiently interesting to be reported in a newspaper; as, a dog biting a man is not a newsworthy item.

Full of news; abounding in information as to current events.

Any one of several species of small aquatic salamanders. The common British species are the crested newt (Triton cristatus) and the smooth newt (Lophinus punctatus). In America, Diemictylus viridescens is one of the most abundant species.

A famous English mathematician and natural philosopher, born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, Dec. 25, 1642 (O. S.): died at Kensington, March 20, 1727. His father, Isaac Newton, was a small freehold farmer. He matriculated at Cambridge (Trinity College) July 8, 1661; was elected to a scholarship April 28, 1664; and graduated in Jan., 1665. At the university he was especially attracted by the study of Descartes's geometry. The method of fluxions is supposed to have first occurred to him in 1665. He was made a fellow of Trinity in 1667, and Lucasian professor at Cambridge in Oct., 1669. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in Jan., 1672. Newton's attention was probably drawn to the subject of gravitation as early as 1665. The story of the fall of the apple was first told by Voltaire, who had it from Mrs. Conduitt, Newton's niece. Kepler had established the laws of the planetary orbits, and from these laws Newton proved that the attraction of the sun upon the planets varies inversely as the squares of their distances. Measuring the actual deflection of the moon's orbit from its tangent, he found it to be identical with the deflection which would be created by the attraction of the earth, diminishing in the ratio of the inverse square of the distance. The hypothesis that the same force acted in each case was thus confirmed. The success of Newton's work really depended on the determination of the length of a degree on the earth's surface by Picard in 1671. The universal law of gravitation was Completely elaborated by 1685. The first book of the "principia" or "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" Was presented to the Royal Society, April 28, 1686, and the entire work was published in 1687. In 1689 he sat in Parliament for the University of Cambridge, and at this time was associated with John Locke; in 1701 he was reelected. When his friend Charles Montagu (afterward earl of Halifax) was appointed chancellor of the exchequer, Newton was made warden of the mint, and in 1699 master of the mint. The reformation of English coinage was largely his work. The method of fluxions, which he had discovered, was employed in the calculations for the "Principia," but did not appear until 1693, when it was published by Wallis. It also appeared in 1704 in the first edition of the "Optics." On Feb. 21, 1699, he was elected foreign associate of the French Academy of Sciences. In 1703 he was elected president of the Royal Society, and held the office till his death./ Newton was buried in Westminster Abbey on 28 March, eight days after his death. His grave is close to a monument in the Abbey erected in his honor. The Latin inscription reads: Hic depositum est, quod mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni. This may be translated as /Here lies that which was mortal of Isaac Newton/. Before the funeral his body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber and his coffin was followed to its grave by most of the Fellows of the Royal Society. The Lord Chancellor, two dukes and three earls were pall bearers./ Newton is most commonly known for his conception of the law of universal gravitation, but his other discoveries and inventions in mathematics (e.g. the binomial theorem, differential and integral calculus), optics, mechanics, and astronomy place him at the very forefront of all scientists. His study and understanding of light, the invention of the reflecting telescope (1668), and his revelation in his Principia of the mathematical ordering of the universe are all represented on his monument in Westminster Abbey.

A unit of force of the Systeme Internationale system of units of measure, equal to the force that produces an acceleration of one meter per second per second when applied to a mass of one kilogram. Abbreviated N.

That may be knit together.

In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately succeeding; as, this man follows next.

next preceding the last; as, the figures in the next-to-last column.

Connection; tie.

The gorilla.

Cast iron to which nickel has been added to make it resist abrasion.

Cast iron consisting of graphite in a matrix of austenite.

A B vitamin (vitamin B5) essential for the normal function of the nervous system and the gastrointestinal tract. Called also nicotinic acid and antipellagra vitamin. Chemical formula C6H5NO2, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxylic acid.

The amide of niacin (nicotinic acid), called also nicotinamide. It was at one time called vitamin B3, and can function to relieve nicotinic acid deficiency. Chemical formula C6H6N2O, chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxamide.

A large flow, used figuratively.

A large waterfall on the Niagara River near Buffalo remarkable for the volume and constancy of the water flowing over it. That part of the waterfall in Canada is the Horseshoe Falls; the U. S. portion is called the American Falls.

A river flowing from Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, which forms the boundary between Ontario and New York.

The capital city of Niger.

A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.

To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.

Having a nib or point.

To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.

A small or cautious bite.

One who, or that which, nibbles.

In a nibbling manner; cautiously.

A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila (called Etzel in the poem) and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.

In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.

A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.

See his nibs under nib, n.

The laughing falcon. See under laughing.

A native or inhabitant of Nicaragua.

A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate.

In a nice manner.

Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenical council held there a. d. 325.

Quality or state of being nice.

Nicety.

The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).

A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. Hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.

Placed in a niche.

A quantity of no importance; nothing.

To nickname; to style.

A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.70.

Trivial; unimportant; petty; as, nickel-and-dime criticisms.

Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.

Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.

An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.

A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, those compounds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide.

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.

The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face. Small coal produced in making the nicking.

The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.

See Knickknack.

See Knickknackery.

A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick.

To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.

One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in Rev. ii. 6, 15.

Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.

A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

Nicotinic.

A complex, oily, nitrogenous base, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.

An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco (C10H14N2). It occurs in tobacco plants (Nicotiana tabacum and Nicotiana rusticum) to the extent of 2 to 8%, in combination with malic acid or citric acid. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous. The apparently addictive effects of tobacco smoking have been ascribed largely to the effect of nicotine, and the controlled administration of nicotine on various forms has been used as a technique for assisting efforts to stop the smoking habit.

Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; -- used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid.

An organic acid (C6H5NO2), a carboxylated derivative of pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine; called also niacin and antipellagra vitamin, and vitamin B5. Chemically it is 3-pyridinecarboxylic acid.