Niggardly.
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Niggardliness.
Niggardliness.
Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.
A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation. It is usually intended and interpreted as highly insulting and vulgar.
A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form; negro head.
Niggardly.
To use, spend, or do in a petty or trifling manner.
One who niggles.
petty, trivial, or inconsequential.
Finicky or pottering work; Minute and very careful workmanship in drawing, painting, or the like, esp. when bestowed on unimportant detail.
Near to; not remote or distant from.
In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost.
The quality or state of being nigh.
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
The popular name for a poem by Clement Clarke Moore titled A Visit from St. Nicholas, a popular poem with the theme of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus) coming to bring gifts to children on Christmans eve.
A person who likes to be active late at night.
The ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight).
Blooming in the night.
Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed.
Going or traveling in the night.
A fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night.
A loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women; a nightgown.
The ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight); night vision.
A pause during a journey, to rest for the night.
A person who likes to be active late at night; a night owl.
A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
garments designed to be worn in bed, such as pyjamas, a nightgown, etc.
An establishment providing entertainment (as singers, dancers, or comedy acts), usually open late into the night or early morning, typically serving alcoholic beverages and food.
A terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; an earthworm. It often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, and is used as bait by anglers. The term is used mostly in the northern and western U. S.
A nightgown.
Darkness; clouded.
Period of night; nighttime.
The close of the day; the arrival of the night; the period at and just after dusk.
A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garment.
A person who likes to be active late at night; a night owl.
Any loose-fitting clothing for wear in bed.
A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird (Luscinia megarhynchos syn. Luscinia luscinia). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
Of or pertaining to night.
A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
Having no night.
Lasting all night.
At night; every night.
One whose business is emptying privies by night.
A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep.
Terrifying, as if in a nightmare{2}; resembling a nightmare{2}.
member of a secret mounted band in the southern U. S. after the Civil War, which committed acts of intimidation and revenge.
A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
A kind of nightgown for men.
A policeman's club.
The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Approaching toward night.
The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.
Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.
The act or process of making black.
A ferruginous variety of rutile.
Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.
Blackness; the state of being black.
Necromancy.
A necromancer.
A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.
The chigoe.
Nothing.
Nothingness; nihility.
One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.
Nothingness; a state of being nothing.
The Greek winged goddess of victory; identified with Roman Victoria.
A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
The great river of Egypt.
see Nylghau.
Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
A Nilometer.
Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.
To take; to steal; to filch.
Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.
Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.
same as light-fingered; thievish; pilfering.
The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
Nimbleness.
In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.
A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
State of being in excess.
Excessive; extravagant; inordinate.
A thief.
A goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea.
A fool; a silly or stupid person.
Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia opulifolia, or Spiraea opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
The lamprey.
The northern butcher bird.
Nine times repeated.
A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.
An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
2-3/4 in or 7 cm long; -- used of nail size; as, a ninepenny nail.
a bowling pin of the type used in ninepins (or (in England) skittles).
A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.
The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
The decade from 1890 to 1899; as, the gay nineties.
The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.
The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
An ancient Assyrian city.
An Akkadian goddess, wife of the moon god Sin.
The Babylonian god of war and agriculture, in an older pantheon.
A Babylonian underworld deity, the patron of medicine.
The great mother goddess in Sumerian mythology, worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu.
A solar deity, first-born of Bel and consort was Gula; god of war and the chase and agriculture; sometimes identifed with Biblical Nimrod.
The grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of Japan.
Same as Ninhursag.
A fool; a simpleton.
A simpleton; a silly person.
A sturdy cloth material of chiffon or voile, used for the manufacture of dresses and other women's garments, and for curtains, and drapery. The material may be constructed by either a plain or a novelty weaving technique.
The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
In the ninth place.
The magpie.
Same as Columbate.
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