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 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.

The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

Same as Columbic.

Same as Columbite.

The chemical element of atomic number 41. Chemical symbol Nb. Atomic weight 92.91. Previously called columbium. See also Columbium.

A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.

A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.

A monotypic genus of palms of Australasia.

One who, or that which, nips.

A small cup.

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

In a nipping manner.

Peculiarly strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor.

Strong liquor.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.

Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language; Japanese.

Pleasantly cold and invigorating; -- of weather conditions.

In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

The first month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.

A simpleton.

Unless; if not; -- used mostly in law.

A striving; an effort; a conatus.

The egg of a louse or other small insect.

Endeavor; effort; tendency.

See Niding.

Bright; lustrous; shining.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.

Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline; nitroaniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.

A salt of nitric acid.

Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.

A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.

See Niter.

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.

A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.

Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.

The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds. The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.

An agent employed in nitrification.

To combine or impregnate with nitrogen; to convert, by oxidation, into nitrous or nitric acid; to subject to, or produce by, nitrification.

Any one of a series of compounds bearing the cyanide radical (-CN); particularly, one of those cyanides of alcohol radicals which, by boiling with acids or alkalies, produce a carboxyl acid, with the elimination of the nitrogen as ammonia.

A salt or ester of nitrous acid; a compound bearing the -NO2 radical.

Nitroglycerin.

A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

Same as Chlorpicrin.

A genus of rod-shaped soil bacteria.

Soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates.

A natural family of usually rod-shaped bacteria that oxidize ammonia or nitrites: nitrobacteria.

A yellow aromatic liquid (C6H5.NO2), produced by the action of nitric acid on benzene, and called from its odor imitation oil of bitter almonds, or essence of mirbane. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

See Nitrobenzene.

Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efflorescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.

See Nitromethane.

See Gun cotton, under Gun.