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.
In a numerical manner; in numbers; with respect to number, or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.
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.
To fondle; to cherish.
To gather nuts.
A widely distributed perennial plant of the Sedge family (Cyperus rotundus, var. Hydra), which has slender rootstocks bearing small, edible, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields.
a widely distributed perennial sedge (Cyperus rotundus) having small edible nutlike tubers; also called nut grass.
Brown as a nut long kept and dried.
Nodding; having the top bent downward.
to rock, sway, or nod; usually involuntarily.
The act of nodding.
The European nuthatch. The nutcracker.
An instrument for cracking nuts.
A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.
Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), and others, are American.
A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
The nuthatch.
A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.
The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
Seasoned with nutmeg.
The nuthatch.
The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.
The act or manner of feeding.
Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth; a nutriment.
To give nutrients to.
Nutritious.
Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious.
In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which a living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
a specialist in the study of nutrition.