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.

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.

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.

A nitro derivative of methane, analogous to chloroform, obtained as a colorless oily or crystalline substance, CH.(NO2)3, quite explosive, and having well-defined acid properties.

An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.

A colorless nonmetallic element of atomic number 7, tasteless and odorless, comprising four fifths of the atmosphere by volume in the form of molecular nitrogen (N2). It is chemically very inert in the free state, and as such is incapable of supporting life (hence the name azote still used by French chemists); but it forms many important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, the cyanides, etc, and is a constituent of all organized living tissues, animal or vegetable. Symbol N. Atomic weight 14.007. It was formerly regarded as a permanent noncondensible gas, but was liquefied in 1877 by Cailletet of Paris, and Pictet of Geneva, and boils at -195.8 / C at atmospheric pressure. Liquid nitrogen is used as a refrigerant to store delicate materials, such as bacteria, cells, and other biological materials.

To combine, or impregnate, with nitrogen or its compounds.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, nitrogen; as, a nitrogenous principle; nitrogenous compounds.

A liquid appearing like a heavy oil, colorless or yellowish, and consisting of a mixture of several glycerin salts of nitric acid, and hence more properly called glycerin nitrate; also called trinitroglycerin and glyceryl trinitrate. It is made by the action of nitric acid on glycerin in the presence of sulphuric acid. It is extremely unstable and terribly explosive. A very dilute solution is used in medicine as a neurotic under the name of glonion.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloric acids.

Any one of a series of hydrocarbons containing the nitro and the nitroso or isonitroso group united to the same carbon atom.

Nitroglycerin.

Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.

Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.

An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.

A nitro derivative of methane (CH3.NO2), obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol. It has been used as a rocket fuel and as a gasoline additive to add power to the fuel, especially in racing cars.

Of, pertaining to, or composed of, nitric acid and muriatic acid; nitrohydrochloric. See Nitrohydrochloric.

Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of phenol. They are yellow oily or crystalline substances and have well-defined acid properties, as picric acid.

Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acid called nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline sulphides.

See Nitroprussic.

A hypothetical nitro derivative of quinol or hydroquinone, not known in the free state, but forming a well defined series of derivatives.

An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.

See Nitrous.

The radical -NO, called also the nitroso group. The term is sometimes loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrosyl; as, nitrosylic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, niter; of the quality of niter, or resembling it.

The group -NO2, usually called the nitro group.

Niter.

Nitrous.

A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.

The horse louse; an insect that deposits nits on horses.

Lousily.

The refuse of good ore.

Shining; elegant; spruce.

Abounding with snow; snowy.

Snowy; resembling snow; partaking of the qualities of snow.

The fourth month of the French republican calendar [1792-1806]. It commenced December 21, and ended January 19. See Vend/miaire.

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

See Nix.

A regular soldier of the Turkish army. See Army organization, above.

Chief of the Vanir; god of the sea and winds and prosperity; father of Frey and Freya; sometimes subsumes Teutonic Nerthus.

north northeast; the compass point that is midway between north and northeast.

north northwest; the compass point that is midway between north and northwest.

A refusal by use of the word no; a denial.

In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.

not functioning properly or in suitable condition for proceeding; as, the space launch was no-go. Opposite of go, a.

a nonexistent goal; as, he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal.

without merit; useless; as, the car was a no-good piece of junk.

A worthless, disreputable, or malicious person.

having no hits; characterized by one team scoring no hits; -- of a baseball game (or the pitching) in which a pitcher allows the opponent no hits; as, he pitched no-hit ball for seven innings. A no-hit game is usually referred to as a no-hitter; as, His no-hit pitching.

A game in which a pitcher allows the opposing team no hits.

Something improper, unethical, inadvisable, or illegal; as, salt is a no-no for someone after a heart attack.

Not tolerating irrelevant or frivolous distractions; businesslike; serious; as, the no-nonsense tones of a stern parent; the chairman adopted a no-nonsense attitude.

Any of several minute two-winged biting insects of the family Ceratopogonidae that suck the blood of mammals and birds and other insects; also called biting midge and punkie.

someone who shirks a duty.

Number; -- the number designating place in an ordered sequence; as, no. 2.