The matter composing the nucleus of a cell; the protoplasm of the nucleus; karyoplasma.

Of or pertaining to nucleoplasm; -- esp. applied to a body formed in the developing ovum from the plasma of the nucleus of the germinal vesicle.

A type of molecule found in all living organisms, present mostly in chemically combined form as a component of nucleic acids, and also in smaller amounts in free form, consisting of a pentose sugar bound to a purine or pyrimidine base; two types of nucleoside, ribonucleoside and deoxyribonucleoside, are present. The most common bases present in nucleosides are adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine, and thymine, and to a lesser extent hypoxanthine and other bases are found. The most commmon ribonucleosides composed from these bases are called adenosine, cytidine, uridine, and guanosine. The forms esterified with orthophosphoric at the 5-position of the pentose are called nucleotides. The nucleotides form the monomer units which are combined into DNA and RNA, which carry the genetic information required for reproduction in all known organisms.

a phosphate ester of a nucleoside; one of the monomeric components of DNA or RNA.

A genus of small marine bivalve shells, having a pearly interior.

Same as Nutlet.

See Nucamentaceous.

The act of stripping, or making bare or naked.

To walk quickly with the head bent forward; -- often with along.

Bare; naked; unclothed; undraped; as, a nude statue.

A gentle push, or jog, as with the elbow.

Having tentacles without vibratile cilia.

Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata. One of the Nudibranchiata.

A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.

Same as Nudibranch.

Having the stems leafless.

The act of making nude.

The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.

a pestiferous boring and dull person.

Futility; trifling talk or behavior; drollery.

Trifles; jests.

The act or practice of trifling.

Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

A lump; a mass, esp. a native lump of a precious metal; as, a nugget of gold.

To render trifling or futile; to make silly.

That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious.

One who makes or causes a nuisance.

No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.

One of the beads in nulled work.

A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term.

Turned so as to resemble nulls.

The state or condition of being nowhere.

The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect.

An unbeliever.

One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

A name for certain crustaceous marine algae which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

Numbness.

That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit, or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.

One who numbers.

Numerous.

Innumerable; countless.

Numerous.

pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.

The torpedo, which numbs by the electric shocks which it gives.

See Nombles.

The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt.

A genus of birds comprising certain of the curlews.

Capable of being numbered or counted.

skill with numbers and mathematics; -- the skill with numbers analogous to literacy, the skill of reading.

A figure or character used to express a number; as, the Arabic numerals, 1, 2, 3, etc.; the Roman numerals, I, V, X, L, etc.

According to number; in number; numerically.

Belonging to a certain number; counting as one of a collection or body.

To divide off and read according to the rules of numeration; as, to numerate a row of figures.

The act or art of numbering.

Of or pertaining to numeration; as, a numerative system.

One who numbers.

Any number, proper or improper fraction, or incommensurable ratio. The term also includes any imaginary expression like m + n/-1, where m and n are real numerics.

One who deals in numbers.

Number; -- often abbrev. No.

The state of being numerous; numerousness.

Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army; numerous objections.

Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa.

A subfamily of birds including the guinea fowl and related birds of Africa and Madagascar.

Evincing the presence of a deity; as, a numinous wood; the most numinous moment in the Mass.

Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.

The science of coins and medals.

One skilled in numismatics; a numismatologist.

A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals.

One versed in numismatology; usually called a numismatist.

The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.

Of or relating to coins or money.

The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.

A fossil of the genus Nummulites and allied genera.

A genus of extinct Tertiary Foraminifera, having a thin, flat, round shell, containing a large number of small chambers arranged spirally.

Of, like, composed of, containing, nummulites; as, nummulitic beds.

A dolt; a blockhead.

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

Stupid; doltish.

The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon.

One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio.

The office of a nuncio.

A messenger. The information communicated.

To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.

The act of nuncupating.

Publicly or solemnly declaratory.

Nuncupative; oral.

A nundinal letter.

Of or pertaining to a fair, or to a market day.

To buy and sell at fairs or markets.

Traffic at fairs; marketing; buying and selling.

The pronunciation of n at the end of words.

A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.

Same as Nupson.

A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.

A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine used to relieve the pain of arthritis and as an analgesic and antipyretic; Advil and Motrin and Nuprin are trademarks of brands of ibuprofen tablets.

A simpleton; a fool.

Marriage; wedding; nuptial ceremony; -- now only in the plural.

A hard knot in wood; also, a hard knob of wood used by boys in playing hockey.

One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.

To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

To nourish; to cherish; to foster To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant. To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.

fed mother's milk from the breast; -- of an infant.

See Houndfish.

An infant considered in relation to its nurse.

A girl or woman employed to attend and care for children.

A pond where fish are fed.

One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.

The act of nursing.

One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.

Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.

To nurse. See Noursle.

To feed; to nourish.

The god of fire and light; corresponds to the Babylonian Girru.