NAB, noun The summit of a mountain or rock.

NAB, verb transitive To catch suddenly; to seize by a sudden grasp or thrust; a word little used and only in low language.

NABOB, noun

1. A deputy or prince in India, subordinate to the Subahs; hence,

2. A man of great wealth.

NACKER. [See Naker]

NACREOUS, adjective [see Naker.] Having a pearly luster.

NACRITE, noun [See Naker.] A rare mineral, called also talckite, consisting of scaly parts; glimmering, pearly, friable, with a greasy feel; the color, a greenish white.

NACTAREOUS, adjective Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant.

The juice nectareous and the balmy dew.

NADIR, noun

1. Natara, to be like, proportional, corresponding to, opposite.

2. That point of the heavens or lower hemisphere directly opposite to the zenith; the point directly under the place where we stand.

NAEVE, noun A spot.

NAFE, noun A kind of tufted sea-fowl.

NAFF, noun A kind of tufted sea-fowl.

NAG, noun

1. A small horse; a horse in general, or rather a sprightly horse.

2. A paramour; in contempt.

NAIAD, noun To flow.

1. In mythology, a water nymph; a deity that presides over rivers and springs.

NAID, noun To flow

NAIL, noun If the word was originally applied to a claw or talon, the primary sense may be to catch, or it may be a shoot.

1. The claw or talon of a fowl or other animal.

2. The horny substance growing at the end of the human fingers and toes.

3. A small pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, to be driven into a board or other piece of timber, and serving to fasten it to other timber. The larger kinds of instruments of this sort are called spikes; and a long thin kind with a flattish head, is called a brad.

4. A stud or boss; a short nail with a large broad head.

5. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the 16th of a yard.

6. On the nail in hand; immediately; without delay or time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail

7. To hit the nail on the head, to hit or touch the exact point.

NAIL, verb transitive

1. To fasten with nails; to unite, close or make compact with nails.

2. To stud with nails.

3. To stop the vent of a cannon; to spike.

NAILED, participle passive Fastened with nails; studded.

NAILER, noun One whose occupation is to make nails.

NAILERY, noun A manufactory where nails are made.

NAILING, ppr. Fastening with nails; studding.

NAIVELY, adverb With native or unaffected simplicity.

NAIVETE, noun Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness.

NAIVTY, noun Native simplicity; unaffected plainness or ingenuousness.

NAKED, adjective Open, discovered, to strip.

1. Not covered; bare; having no clothes on; as a naked body or a naked limb.

2. Unarmed; defenseless; open; exposed; having no means of defense or protection against an enemys attack, or against other injury.

Behold my bosom naked to your swords.

3. Open to view; not concealed; manifest. Hebrews 4:13.

4. Destitute of worldly goods. Job 1:21.

5. Exposed to shame and disgrace. Exodus 32:25.

6. Guilty and exposed to divine wrath. Revelations 3.

7. Plain; evident; undisguised; as the naked truth.

8. Mere; bare; simple; wanting the necessary additions. God requires of man something besides the naked belief of his being and his word.

9. Not inclosed in a pod or case; as naked seeds of a plant.

10. Without leaves, fulcres or arms; as a naked stem or trunk.

11. Not assisted by glasses; as the naked eye.

NAKEDLY, adverb

1. Without covering.

2. Simply ; barely ; merely; in the abstract.

3. Evidently.

NAKEDNESS, noun

1. Want of covering or clothing; nudity; bareness.

2. Want of means of defense.

Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land are ye come. Genesis 42:9.

3. Plainness; openness to view.

To uncover nakedness in Scripture, is to have incestuous or unlawful commerce with a female.

NAKER, noun Mother of pearl; the white substance which constitutes the interior surface of a shell producing a pearl.

NALL, noun An awl, such as collar-makers or shoe-makers use.

NAME, noun

1. That by which a thing is called; the sound or combination of sounds used to express an idea, or any material substance, quality or act; an appellation attached to a thing by customary use, by which it may be vocally distinguished from other things. A name may be attached to an individual only, and is then proper or appropriate, as John, Thomas, London, Paris; or it may be attached to a species, genus, or class of things, as sheep, goat, horse, tree, animal, which are called common names, specific or generic.

2. The letters or characters written or engraved, expressing the sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.

3. A person.

They list with women each degenerate name

4. Reputation; character; that which is commonly said of a person; as a good name; a bad name

5. Renown; fame; honor; celebrity; eminence; praise; distinction.

What men of name resort to him?

6. Remembrance; memory.

The Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. Deuteronomy 29:20.

7. Appearance only; sound only; not reality; as a friend in name Revelation 3:1.

8. Authority; behalf; part; as in the name of the people. When a man speaks or acts in the name of another, he does it by their authority or in their behalf, as their representative.

9. Assumed character of another.

Had forged a treason in my patrons name

10. In Scripture, the name of God signifies his titles, his attributes, his will or purpose, , his honor and glory, his word, his grace, his wisdom, power and goodness, his worship or service, or God himself.

11. Issue; posterity that preserves the name Deuteronomy 25:6.

12. In grammar, a noun.

To call names, to apply opprobrious names; to call by reproachful appellations.

To take the name of God in vain, to swear falsely or profanely, , or to use the name of God with levity or contempt. Exodus 20:7.

To know by name to honor by a particular friendship or familiarity. Exodus 33:12.

Christian name the name a person receives by baptism, as distinguished from surname.

NAME, verb transitive to call, to name to invoke.

1. To set or give to any person or thing a sound or combination of sounds by which it may be known and distinguished ; to call; to give an appellation to.

She named the child Ichabod. 1 Samuel 4:21.

Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work confusion named.

2. To mention by name; to utter or pronounce the sound or sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.

Neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.

3. To nominate; to designate for any purpose by name

Thou shalt anoint to me him whom I name to thee. I Samuel 16.

4. To entitle.

To the name of Christ, to make profession of faith in him. 2 Timothy 4:1.

NAMED, participle passive Called; denominated; designated by name.

NAMELESS, adjective

1. Without a name; not distinguished by an appellation; as a nameless star.

2. He or that whose name is not known or mentioned.

NAMELY, adverb To mention by name; particularly.

For the excellency of the soul, namely its power of divining in dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question.

NAMER, noun One that names or calls by name.

NAMESAKE, noun One that has the same name as another.

NAMING, participle present tense Calling; nominating; mentioning.

NAN, a Welsh word signifying what, used as an interrogative. [This word has been extensively used within my memory by the common people of New England.]

NANKEEN, noun [Nankin a Chinese word.] A species of cotton cloth of a firm texture, from China, now imitated by the manufacturers in Great Britain.

NAP, noun To lean, that is, to nod.

1. A short sleep or slumber.

NAP, verb intransitive

1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy.

2. To be in a careless, secure state.

NAP, noun

1. The woolly or villous substance on the surface of cloth.

2. The downy or soft hairy substance on plants.

3. A knop.

NAPE, noun A knob; to be hard or callous, whence a callus.

1. The prominent joint of the neck behind.

NAPERY, noun Linen for the table; table cloths or linen cloth in general.

NAPHEW, noun [a turnep; a knob] A plant.

NAPHTHA, noun [from nafata, to push out, as pustules, to throw out, to boil, to be angry. In Ambaric, neft or nepht, from this sense, signifies a gun or musket.]

1. An inflammable mineral substance of the bituminous kind, of a light brown or yellowish color, sharp taste, and incapable of decomposition. By long keeping it hardens into a substance resembling vegetable resin, and becomes black. It is as inflammable as ether. It is said to issue from the earth at Baku, in Persia, and to be received into cisterns.

2. naphtha consists of carbon and hydrogen.

NAPHTHALINE, noun A peculiar crystalizable substance, deposited from naphtha distilled from coal tar, consisting of hydrogen and carbon.

NAPKIN, noun [nape, cloth; of which napkin is a diminutive.]

1. A cloth used for wiping the hands; a towel.

2. A handkerchief.

NAPLESS, adjective Without nap; threadbare.

NAPPAL, noun Soap rock.

NAPPINESS, noun

1. The quality of being sleepy or inclined to take naps.

2. The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap; as on cloth.

NAPPY adjective [from nap.] frothy

NAPTAKING, adjective Taking naps.

NAPTAKING, noun A taking by surprise, as when one is not on his guard; unexpected onset when one is unprepared.

NARCISSUS, noun In botany, the daffodil, a genus of plants of several species. They are of the bulbous rooted tribe, perennial in root, but with annual leaves and flower stalks.

NARCOTIC, noun A medicine which stupefies the senses and renders insensible to pain; hence, a medicine which induces sleep; a soporific; and opiate.

NARCOTICALLY, adverb By producing torpor or drowsiness.

NARCOTICNESS, noun The quality of inducing sleep or removing pain.

NARCOTINE, noun The pure narcotic principle of opium.

NARD, noun

1. A plant usually called spikenard, spica nardi; highly valued by the ancients, both as an article of luxury and of medicine. It is an odorous or aromatic plant.

2. An unguent prepared from the plant.

NARDINE, adjective Pertaining to nard; having the qualities of spikenard.

NARE, noun The nostril.

NARRABLE, adjective That may be related, told, or narrated.

NARRATE, verb transitive

1. To tell, rehearse or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of any event or transaction , or any series of incidents.

2. To write, as the particulars of a story or history, We never say, to narrate a sentence, a sermon or an oration, but we narrate a story, or the particular events which have fallen under our observation, or which we have heard related.

NARRATED, participle passive Related; told.

NARRATING, participle present tense Relating; telling; reciting.

NARRATION, noun

1. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.

2. Relation; story; history; the relation in words or writing, of the particulars of any transaction or event, , or of any series of transactions or events.

3. In oratory, that part of a discourse which recites the time, manner, or consequences of an action , or simply states the facts connected with the subject.

NARRATIVE, adjective

1. Relating the particulars of an event or transaction; giving a particular or continued account.

2. Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars of events; story-telling.

But wise through time and narrative with age.

NARRATIVE, noun The recital of a story, or a continued account of the particulars of an event or transaction; story.

Cynthio was much taken with my narrative

NARRATIVELY, adverb By way of narration, story, or recital.

NARRATOR, noun One that narrates; one that relates a series of events or transactions.

NARRATORY, adjective Giving an account of events.

NARROW, adjective I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow close, G. with a prefix. In this case, the word belongs to the root of nigh; to approach.

1. Of little breadth; not wide or broad; having little distance from side to side; as a narrow board; a narrow street; a narrow sea; a narrow hem or border. It is only or chiefly applied to the surface of flat or level bodies.

2. Of little extent; very limited; as a narrow space or compass.

3. Covetous; not liberal or bountiful; as a narrow heart.

4. Contracted; of confined views or sentiments; very limited.

The greatest understanding is narrow

In this sense and the former, it is often prefixed to mind or soul, _ c. ; as narrow-minded; narrow-souled; narrow-hearted.

5. Near; within a small distance.

6. Close; near; accurate; scrutinizing; as a narrow search; narrow inspection.

7. Near; barely sufficient to avoid evil; as a narrow escape.

NARROW, noun A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.

NARROWED, participle passive Contracted; made less wide.

NARROWING, ppr. Contracting; making less broad.

NARROWINGS, noun The part of a stocking which is narrowed.

NARROWLY, adverb

1. With little breadth.

2. Contractedly; without much extent.

3. Closely; accurately; with minute scrutiny; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly

4. Nearly; within a little; by a small distance; as, he narrowly escaped.

5. Sparingly.

NARROWNESS, noun

1. Smallness of breadth or distance from side to side; as the narrowness of cloth, of a street or highway, of a stream or sea.

2. Smallness of extent; contractedness; as the narrowness of capacity or comprehension; narrowness of knowledge or attainments.

3. Smallness of estate or means of living; poverty; as the narrowness of fortune or of circumstances.

4. Contractedness; penuriousness; covetousness; as narrowness of heart.

5. Illiberality; want of generous, enlarged or charitable views or sentiments; as narrowness of mind or views.

NARROWS, noun A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometimes in the singular.

NARROW, verb transitive

1.To lessen the breadth of; to contract.

A government, by alienating the affections of the people, may be said to narrow its bottom.

2. To contract in extent; as, to narrow ones influence; to narrow the faculties or capacity.

3. To draw into a smaller compass; to contract; to limit; to confine; as, to narrow our views or knowledge; to narrow a question in discussion.

4. In knitting, to contract the size of a stocking by taking two stitches into one.

NARROW, verb intransitive

1. To become less broad; to contract in breadth. At that place, the sea narrows into a strait.

2. In horsemanship, a horse is said to narrow, when he does not take ground enough, or bear out enough to the one hand or the other.

3. To contract the size of a stocking by taking two stitches into one.

NARWAL, noun The Monodon monoceros, a cetaceous animal found in the northern seas, which grows to twenty feet in length. The spiracle of this animal is on the anterior part of the skull. When young it has two teeth or horns, but when old it has but one, which projects from the upper jaw and is spiral. From this circumstance of its having one horn only, it has obtained the name of the sea unicorn, or unicorn fish.

NAS, for ne has, has not.

NASAL, adjective Pertaining to the nose; formed or affected by the nose; as a nasal sound; a nasal letter.

NASAL, noun

1. A letter whose sound is affected by the nose.

2. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.

NASCAL, noun

1. A kind of medicated pessary.

2. Pessary made of wool or cotton, to raise the nose when compressed.

NASCENT, adjective [to be born] beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.

NASEBERRY, noun The naseberry tree is a species of the genus Sloanea.

NASICORNOUS, adjective Having a horn growing on the nose.

NASTILY, adverb

1. In a nasty manner; filthily; dirtily.

2. Obscenely.

NASTINESS, noun

1. Extreme filthiness; dirtiness; filth.

2. Obscenity; ribaldry.

NASTURTION, noun A plant of the genus Tropaeolum; Indian cresses.

NASTY, adjective

1. Disgustingly filthy; very dirty, foul or defiled; nauseous.

2. Obscene.

NASUS, noun A fresh water fish, about nine inches in length, resembling the chub. It is found in the Danube, Rhine and other large rivers of Germany.

NATAL, adjective Pertaining to birth. The natal day is the day of birth or nativity. So we say, natal hour; natal place.

NATALITIAL, adjective Pertaining to ones birth or birth day, or consecrated to ones activity.

NATALITIOUS, adjective Pertaining to ones birth or birth day, or consecrated to ones nativity.

NATANT, adjective In botany, swimming; floating on the surface of water; as the leaf of an aquatic plant.

NATATION, noun A swimming; the act of floating on the water

NATATORY, adjective Enabling to swim.

NATCH, noun The part of an ox between the loins, near the rump.

NATHLESS, adverb Nevertheless; not the less; notwithstanding.

NATHMORE, adverb Not the more; never the more.

NATION, noun [to be born]

1. A body of people inhabiting the same country, or united under the same sovereign or government; as the English nation; the French nation It often happens that many nations are subject to one government; in which case, the word nation usually denotes a body of people speaking the same language, or a body that has formerly been under a distinct government, but has been conquered, or incorporated with a larger nation Thus the empire of Russia comprehends many nations, as did formerly the Roman and Persian empires. nation as its etymology imports, originally denoted a family or race of men descended from a common progenitor, like tribe, but by emigration, conquest and intermixture of men of different families, this distinction is in most countries lost.

2. A great number, by way of emphasis.

NATIONAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to a nation; as national customs, dress or language.

2. Public; general; common to a nation; as a national calamity.

3. Attached or unduly attached to ones own country. The writer manifested much national prejudice. He was too national to be impartial.

NATIONALITY, noun National character; also, the quality of being national, or strongly attached to ones own nation.

NATIONALIZE, verb transitive To make national; to give to one the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar attachments which belong to citizens of the same nation.

NATIONALLY, adverb In regard to the nation; as a whole nation.

The jews-bing nationally espoused to God by covenant.

NATIVE, adjective

1. Produced by nature; original; born with the being; natural; not acquired; as native genius; native affections; a native talent or disposition; native cheerfulness; native simplicity.

2. Produced by nature; not factitious or artificial; as native ore; native color.

3. Conferred by birth; as native rights and privileges.

4. Pertaining to the place of birth; as native soil; native country; native graves.

5. Original; that of which any thing is made; as mans native dust.

6. Born with; congenial.

NATIVE, noun

1. One born in any place is said to be a native of that place, whether country, city or town.

2. Offspring.

NATIVELY, adverb By birth, naturally; originally.

NATIVENESS, noun State of being produced by nature.

NATIVITY, noun

1. Birth; the coming into life or the world. The feast of Christmas is observed in memory of Christs nativity

2. Time, place and manner of birth; as, to calculate ones nativity

3. State or place of being produced.

These, in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame.

NATKA, noun A bird, a species of shrike.

NATROLITE, noun A variety of mesotype or zeolite, so called by Klaproth on account of the great quantity of soda it contains.

NATRON, noun Native carbonate of soda, or mineral alkali. [See niter]

NATURAL, adjective [to be born or produced]

1. Pertaining to nature; produced or effected by nature, or by the laws of growth, formation or motion impressed on bodies or beings by divine power. Thus we speak of the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color; natural beauty. In this sense, natural is opposed to artificial or acquired.

2. According to the stated course of things. Poverty and shame are the natural consequences of certain vices.

3. Not forced; not far fetched; such as is dictated by nature. The gestures of the orator are natural

4. According to the life; as a natural representation of the face.

5. Consonant to nature.

Fire and warmth go together, and so seem to carry with them as natural an evidence as self-evident truths themselves.

6. Derived from nature, as opposed to habitual. The love of pleasure is natural ; the love of study is usually habitual or acquired.

7. Discoverable by reason; not revealed; as natural religion.

8. Produced or coming in the ordinary course of things, or the progress or animals and vegetables; as a natural death; opposed to violent or premature.

9. Tender; affectionate by nature.

10. Unaffected; unassumed; according to truth and reality.

What can be more natural than the circumstances of the behavior of those women who had lost heir husbands on this fatal day?

11. Illegitimate; born out of wedlock; as a natural son.

12. Native; vernacular; as ones natural language.

13. Derived from the study of the works or nature; as natural knowledge.

14. A natural note, in music, is that which is according to the usual order of the scale; opposed to flat and sharp notes, which are called artificial.

NATURAL history, in its most extensive sense, is the description of whatever is created, or of the whole universe, including the heavens and the earth, and all the productions of the earth. But more generally, natural history is limited to a description of the earth and its productions, including zoology, botany, geology, mineralogy, meteorology, _ c.

NATURAL philosophy, the science of material natural bodies, of their properties, powers and motions. It is distinguished from intellectual and moral philosophy, which respect the mind or understanding of man and the qualities of actions. natural philosophy comprehends mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, chimistry, magnetism, eletricity, galvanism, _ c.

NATURAL, noun

1. An idiot; one born without the usual powers of reason or understanding. This is probably elliptical for natural fool.

2. A native; an original inhabitant.

3. Gift of nature; natural quality.

NATURALISM, noun Mere state of nature.

NATURALIST, noun One that studies natural history and philosophy or physics; one that is versed in natural history or philosophy. It is more generally applied to one that is versed in natural history.

NATURALIZATION, noun [See Naturalize] The act of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen. naturalization in Great Britain is only by act of parliament. In the United States, it is by act of Congress, vesting certain tribunals with the power.

NATURALIZE, verb transitive [from natural, nature.]

1. To confer on an alien the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen; to adopt foreigners into a nation or state, and place them in the condition of natural born subjects.

2. To make natural; to render easy and familiar by custom and habit; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

3. To adapt; to make suitable; to acclimate; as, to naturalize one to a climate.

4. To receive or adopt as native, natural or vernacular; to make our own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

5. To accustom; to habituate; as, to naturalize the vine to a cold climate.

NATURALIZED, participle passive Invested with the privileges of natives; rendered easy and familiar; adapted to a climate; acclimated; received as native.

NATURALIZING, participle present tense Vesting with the rights of native subjects; making easy; acclimating; adopting.

NATURALLY, adverb

1. According to nature; by the force or impulse of nature; not by art or habit. We are naturally prone to evil.

2. According to nature; without affectation; with just representation; according to life.

3. According to the usual course of things; as, the effect or consequence naturally follows.

4. Spontaneously; without art or cultivation. Every plant must have grown naturally in some place or other.

NATURALNESS, noun

1. The state of being given or produced by nature; as the naturalness of desire.

2. Conformity to nature, or to truth and reality; not affectation ; as the naturalness of the eyebrows.

NATURALS, noun plural Among physicians, whatever belongs naturally to an animal; opposed to non-naturals. [ It may perhaps be sometimes used in the singular.]

NATURE, noun [Latin from nature born, produced, ]

1. In a general sense, whatever is made or produced; a word that comprehends all the works of God; the universe. Of a phoenix we say, there is no such thing in nature

And look through nature up to natures God.

2. By a metonymy of the effect for the cause, nature is used for the agent, creator, author, producer of things, or for the powers that produce them. By the expression, trees and fossils are produced by nature we mean, they are formed or produced by certain inherent powers in matter, or we mean that they are produced by God, the Creator, the Author of whatever is made or produced. The opinion that things are produced by inherent powers of matter, independent of a supreme intelligent author, is atheism. But generally men mean by nature thus used, the Author of created things, or the operation of his power.

3. The essence, essential qualities or attributes of a thing, which constitute it what it is; as the nature of the soul; the nature of blood; the nature of a fluid; the nature of plants, or of a metal; the nature of a circle or an angle. When we speak of the nature of man, we understand the peculiar constitution of his body or mind, or the qualities of the species which distinguish him from other animals. When we speak of the nature of a man, or an individual of the race, we mean his particular qualities or constitution; either the peculiar temperament of his body, or the affections of his mind, his natural appetites, passions, disposition or temper. So of irrational animals.

4. The established or regular course of things; as when we say, an event is not according to nature or it is out of the order of nature

5. A law or principle of action or motion in a natural body. A stone by nature falls, or inclines to fall.

6. Constitution aggregate powers of a body, especially a living one. We say, nature is strong or weak; nature is almost exhausted.

7. The constitution and appearances of things.

The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists or historians, which are built upon general nature live forever.

8. Natural affection or reverence.

Have we not seen, the murdering son ascend his parents bed through violated nature force his way?

9. System of created things.

He binding nature fast in fate, Left conscience free and will.

10. Sort; species; kind; particular character.

A dispute of this nature caused mischief to a king and an archbishop.

11. Sentiments r images conformed to nature or to truth and reality.

Only nature can please those tastes which are unprejudiced and refined.

12. Birth. No man is noble by nature

NATURE, verb transitive To endow with natural qualities. [Not in use]

NATURIST, noun One who ascribes every thing t nature.

NATURITY, noun The quality or state of being produced by nature. [ A very bad word and not used.]

NAUFRAGE, noun [Latin A ship, and to break See wreck, which is from the same root, break] Shipwreck. [Not in use]

NAUFRAGOUS, adjective Causing shipwreck. [Little used]

NAUGHT, noun Nothing.

Doth Job serve God for naught? Job 1:9.

Thou sellest thy people for naught Psalms 44:12.

To set at naught to slight, to disregard or despise.

Ye have set at naught all my counsel. Proverbs 1:25.

NAUGHT, adverb In no degree

To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.

NAUGHT, adjective Bad; worthless; of no value or account.

Things naught and things indifferent.

It is naught it is naught says the buyer. Proverbs 20:14.

NAUGHTILY, adverb nautily. Wickedly; corruptly.

NAUGHTINESS, noun Nautiness.

1. Badness; wickedness; evil principle or purpose.

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy heart. 1 Samuel 17:28.

2. Slight wickedness of children; perverseness; mischievousness.

, adjective Nauty.

1. Wicked; corrupt.

A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. Proverbs 6:1.

2. Bad; worthless.

The other basket had very naughty figs. Jeremiah 24:1.

3. Mischievous; perverse; froward; as a naughty child. It is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children.

NAULAGE, noun The freight of passengers in a ship.

NAUMACHY, noun

1. Among the ancient Romans, a show or spectacle representing a sea-fight.

2. The place where these shows were exhibited.

NAUSEA, noun Originally and properly, sea-sickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach, accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; loathing; squeamishness of the stomach.

NAUSEATE, verb transitive

1. To lothe; to reject with disgust.

The patient nauseates and lothes wholesome foods.

Old age, with silent pace, comes creeping on, Nauseates the praise which in her youth she won.

2. To affect with disgust.

NAUSEOUS, adjective Lothesome; disgustful; disgusting; regarded with abhorrence; as a nauseous drug or medicine.

NAUSEOUSLY, adverb Lothesomely; disgustfully.

NAUSEOUSNESS, noun Lothesomeness; quality of exciting disgust; as the nauseousness of a drug or medicine.

The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man.

NAUTIC, adjective [Latin A seaman, a ship, See Navy] Pertaining to seamen or navigation; as nautical skill; a nautical almanack.

NAUTICAL, adjective [Latin A seaman, a ship, See Navy] Pertaining to seamen or navigation; as nautical skill; a nautical almanack.

NAUTILITE, noun A fossil nautilus.

NAUTILUS, noun [Latin , Gr. A ship] A genus of marine animals, whose shell consists of one spiral valve divided into several apartments by partitions. There are many species. This animal, when it sails, extends two of its arms, and between these supports a membrane that serves as a sail. With two other arms it rows or steers.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail.

NAVAL, adjective [Latin Gr. A ship]

1. Consisting of ships; as a naval force or armament.

2. Pertaining to ships; as naval stores.

NAVALS, noun Naval affairs. [Not used]

NAVARCH, noun In ancient Greece, the commander of a fleet.

NAVARCHY, noun [from Latin And admiral.] Knowledge of managing ships.

NAVE, noun

1. The thick piece of timber in the center of a wheel, in which the spokes are inserted; called also the hob.

2. The middle or body of a church extending from the balluster or rail of the door, to the chief choir.

NAVEL, noun The center of the lower part of the abdomen, or the point where the umbilical cord passes out of the fetus. The umbilical cord is a collection of vessels by which the fetus of an animal communicates with the parent by means of the placenta, to which it is attached.

NAVEW, n. A plant of the genus Brassica. It has a spindle-shaped root, less than the turnep.

NAVICULAR, adjective [Latin , a little ship]

1. Relating to small ships or boats.

2. Shaped like a boat; cymbiform. The navicular bone is the scaphoid bone of the wrist.

NAVIGABLE, adjective [Latin From navigo, to sail, from navis, a ship] To pass on water in ships; to sail.

The Phoenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western ocean.

NAVIGATE, verb transitive

1. To pass over in ships; to sail on ; as to navigate the Atlantic.

2. To steer, direct or manage in sailing; as, to navigate a ship.

NAVIGATION, participle present tense Passing on or over in sailing; steering and managing in sailing.

NAVIGATION, noun

1. The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels.

2. The art of conducting ships or vessels from one place to another. This art comprehends not only the management of the sails, but the directing and measuring of the course of ships by the laws of geometry, or by astronomical principles and observations.

3. Ships in general.

Aerial navigation the sailing or floating in the air by means of balloons.

Inland navigation the passing of boats or small vessels on rivers, lakes or canals, in the interior of a country; conveyance by boats or vessels in the interior of a country.

NAVIGATOR, noun One that navigates or sails; chiefly, one who directs the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation. We say, a bold navigator an experienced navigator an able navigator

NAVY, noun [Gr. From to swim. To swim then is to move up and down.]

1. A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.

The navy of Hiram brought gold from Ophir. 1 Kings 10:11.

2. The whole of the ships of war belonging to a nation or king. The navy of Great Britain is the defense of the kingdom and its commerce. This is the usual acceptation of the word.

NAWL, noun An awl. [Not in use]

NAY, adverb [a contracted word, to deny]

1. No; a word that expresses negation.

I tell you nay but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke 13:3.

2. It expresses also refusal.

He that will not when he may, When he would he shall have nay

[In these senses it is now rarely used; no being substituted.]

3. Not only so; not this alone; intimating that something is to be added y way of amplification. He requested an answer; nay he urged it.

NAY, noun Denial, refusal.

NAY, verb transitive To refuse. [Not in use]

NAYWARD, noun Tendency to denial. [Not used]

NAYWORD, noun A by-word; a proverbial reproach; a watch-word.

NAZARENEn. An inhabitant of Nazareth; one of the early converts to Christianity; in contempt. Acts 24:1.

NAZARITE, noun A jew who professed extraordinary purity of life and devotion.

NAZARITISM, noun The doctrines of practice of the Nazarites.