NUBIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin a cloud or fog, and to produce.] Brining or producing clouds.

NU'BILE, adjective [Latin to marry.] Marriageable; of an age suitable for marriage.

NU'BILOUS, adjective Cloudy.

NUCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin nut and to bear.] Bearing or producing nuts.

NU'CLEUS, noun [Latin a nut.]

1. Properly, the kernel of a nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected.

2. The body of a comet, called also its head, which appears to be surrounded with light.

NUDA'TION, noun [Latin to make bare.] The act of stripping or making bare or naked.

NUDE, adjective

1. Bare.

2. In law, void; of no force.

NU'DITY, noun

1. Nakedness.

2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed.

3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or parts not covered with drapery.

Nudum Pactum, [Latin] in law, an agreement that is void or not valid according to the laws of the land.

NUGAC'ITY, noun [Latin trifles.] Futility; trifling talk or behavior.

NUGA'TION, noun [Latin to trifle.] The act or practice of trifling. [Little used.]

NU'GATORY, adjective

1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.

2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. The laws are sometimes rendered nugatory by inexecution. Any agreement may be rendered nugatory by something which contravenes its execution.

NU'ISANCE, noun [Latin to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]

1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. A liar is a nusance to society.

2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.

NULL, verb transitive [Latin not any.] To annul; to deprive of validity; to destroy. [Not much used.] [See Annul.]

NULL, adjective Void; of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid. The contract of a minor is null in law, except for necessaries.

NULL, noun Something that has no force or meaning. A cipher is called a null [Not used.]

NULLIFID'IAN, adjective [Latin none, and faith.] Of no faith; of no religion or honesty. [Not used.]

NUL'LIFIED, participle passive Made void.

NUL'LIFY, verb transitive [Latin none, and to make.] To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

NUL'LITY, noun

1. Nothingness; want of existence.

2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy.

NUMB, adjective

1. Torpid; destitute of the power of sensation and motion; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.

2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as the numb cold night. [Not used nor proper.]

NUMB, verb transitive To make torpid; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.

For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand.

And numbing coldness has embraced the ear.

NUMBED, participle passive Rendered torpid.

NUM'BER, noun [Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to number number may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nombre for name, and the French word written with the same letters, is number ]

1. The designation of a unit reference to other units, or in reckoning, counting, enumerating; as, one is the first number; a simple number

2. An assemblage of two or more units. Two is a number composed of one and one added. Five and three added make the number eight. number may be applied to any collection or multitude of units or individuals, and therefore is indefinite, unless defined by other words or by figures or signs of definite signification. Hence,

3. More than one; many.

Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers.

4. Multitude.

Number itself importeth not much in armies, where the men are of weak courage.

5. In poetry, measure; the order and quantity of syllables constituting feet, which render verse musical to the ear. The harmony of verse consists in the proper distribution of the long and short syllables, with suitable pauses. In oratory, a judicious disposition of words, syllables and cadences constitutes a kind of measure resembling poetic numbers.

6. Poetry; verse.

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came.

Here the first word numbers may be taken for poetry or verse, and the second for measure.

Yet shoud the Muses bid my numbers roll.

7. In grammar, the difference of termination or form of a word, to express unity or plurality. The termination which denotes one or an individual, is the singular number; the termination that denotes two or more individuals or units, constitues the plural number Hence we say, a noun, an adjective, a pronoun or a verb is in the singular or the plural number

8. In mathematics, number is variously distinguished. cardinal numbers are those which express the amount of units; as 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10. Ordinal numbers are those which express order; as first, second, third, fourth, etc.

Determinate number is that referred to a given unit, as a ternary or three; an indeterminate number is referred to unity in general, and called quantity.

Homogeneal numbers, are those referred to the same units; those referred to different units are termed heterogeneal.

Whole numbers, are called integers.

A rational number is one commensurable with unity. A number incommensurable with unity, is termed irrational or surd.

A prime or primitive number is divisible only by unity; as three, five, seven, etc.

A perfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make the whole number as 28, whose aliquot parts, 14. 7. 4. 2. 1. make the number 28.

An imperfect number is that whose aliquot parts added together, make more or less than the number This is abundant or defedtive; abundant, as 12, whose aliquot parts, 6. 4. 3. 2. 1. make 16; or defective, as 16 whose aliquot parts, 8. 4. 2. 1. make 15 only.

A square number is the product of a number multiplied by itself; as, 16 is the square number of four.

A cubic number is the product of a square number by its root; as, 27 is the product of the square number 9 by its root 3.

Golden number the cycle of the moon, or revolution of 19 years, in which time the conjunctions, oppositions and other aspects of the moon are nearly the same as they were on the same days of the month 19 years before.

NUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of any sum, collection or multitude.

If a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. Genesis 8:1.

2. To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.

He was numbered with the transgressors. Isaiah 53:12.

NUM'BERED, participle passive Counted; enumerated.

NUMBERER, noun One that counts numbers.

NUM'BERING, participle present tense Counting; ascertaining the units of a multitutde or collection.

NUM'BERLESS, adjective That cannot be counted; innumerable.

NUM'BERS, noun The title of the fourth book of the Pentateuch.

NUMBING, participle present tense Making torpid.

NUM'BLES, noun The entrails of a deer.

NUMBNESS, noun Torpor; that state of a living body in which it has not the power of feeling or motion, as when paralytc or chilled by cold.

NU'MERABLE, adjective That may be numbered or counted.

NU'MERAL, adjective

1. Pertaining to number; consisting of number.

The dependence of a long train of numeral progressions.

2. Expressing number; representing number; standing as a substitute for figures; as numeral letters; as X for 10; L for fifty; C for 100; D for 500; M for 1000.

3. Expressing numbers; as numeral characters. The figures we now use to express numbers are 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 0. They are said to be of Arabian origin; but the Arabians might have received them from India. This is a controverted question.

NU'MERALLY, adverb According to number; in number.

NU'MERARY, adjective Belonging to a certain number.

A supernumerary canon, when he obtains a prebend, becomes a numerary canon.

NU'MERATE, verb transitive To count or reckon in numbers; to calculate. [But enumerate is generally used.]

NUMERA'TION, noun

1. The act or art of numbering.

Numeration is but still the adding of one unit more, and giving to the whole a new name or sign.

2. In arithmetic, notation; the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters; the act or art of writing or reading numbers. Thus we write 1000, for thousand, and 50, we read fifty.

NU'MERATOR, noun [Latin]

1. One that numbers.

2. In arithmetic, the number in vulgar fractions which shows how many parts of a unit are taken. Thus when a unit is divided into 9 parts, and we take 5, we express it thus, 5/9, that is, five ninths; 5 being the numerator and 9 the denominator.

NUMER'IC, adjective [Latin , number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.

2. Numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.

NUMER'ICAL, adjective [Latin , number.]

1. Belonging to number; denoting number; consisting in numbers; as numerical algebra; numerical characters.

2. numerical difference, is that by which one individual is distinguished from another. The same numerical body is identically the same.

NUMER'ICALLY, adverb

1. In numbers; as parts of a thing numerically expressed.

2. With respect to number or sameness in number; as, a thing is numerically the same, or numerically different.

NU'MERIST, noun One that deals in numbers. [Not used.]

NUMEROS'ITY, noun The state of being numerous. [Not used.]

NU'MEROUS, adjective [Latin]

1. Being many, or consisting of a great number of individuals; as a numerous army; a numerous body; a numerous people.

2. Consisting of poetic numbers; melodious; musical. In prose, a style becomes numerous by the alternate disposition or intermixture of long and short syllables, or of long and short words; or by a judicious selection and disposition of smooth flowing words, and by closing the periods with important or well sounding words.

NUMEROUSLY, adverb In great numbers.

NU'MEROUSNESS, noun

1. The quality of being numerous or many; the quality of consisting of a great number of individuals; as the numerousness of an army or of an assembly.

2. The quality of consisting of poetic numbers; melodiousness; musicalness.

NUMISMAT'IC, adjective [Latin , money, coin; Gr., to suppose, to sanction, law or custom.] Pertaining money, coin or medals.

NUMISMAT'ICS, noun The science of coins and medals.

NUMISMATOL'OGIST, noun One versed in the knowledge of coins and medals.

NUMISMATOL'OGY, noun [Gr., coin, and discourse.] The branch of historical science which treats of coins and medals.

NUM'MARY, adjective [Latin , a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.

NUM'MULAR, adjective [Latin , a coin.] Pertaining to coin or money.

NUM'MULITE, noun [Latin , money.] Fossil remains of a chambered shell of a flattened form, formerly mistaken for money.

NUMPS, noun A dolt; a blockhead. [Not used.]

NUM'SKULL, noun [numb and skull.] A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.

NUM'SKULLED, adjective Dull in intellect; stupid; doltish.

NUN, noun A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.

NUN, noun

1. A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck.

2. The blue titmouse.

NUN'CHION, noun A portion of food taken between meals. [qu. from noon, or a corruption of luncheon.]

NUN'CIATURE, noun [See Nuncio] The office of a nuncio.

NUN'CIO, noun [Latin , a messenger.]

1. An embassador from the pope to some catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope's representative.

2. A messsenger; one who brings intelligence.

NUN'CUPATE, verb transitive [Latin] To declare publicly or solemnly. [Not used.]

NUNCUPA'TION, noun A naming.

NUNCU'PATIVE, adjective [Latin , to declare.]

1. Nominal; existing only in name.

2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.

3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.

NUNCU'PATORY, adjective [Latin , to declare.]

1. Nominal; existing only in name.

2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory.

3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing.

NUN'DINAL, adjective [Latin , a fair or market, every nine days.]

1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day.

2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last dya of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days.

NUN'DINAL, noun A nundinal letter.

NUN'DINATE, verb intransitive To buy and sell at fairs. [Not used.]

NUNDINA'TION, noun Traffick in fairs. [Not used.]

NUNNA'TION, noun In Arabic grammar, from the name of N, the pronunciation of n at the end of words.

NUN'NERY, noun A house in which nuns reside; a cloister in which females under a vow of chastity and devoted to religion, reside during life.

NUP'TIAL, adjective [Latin , to marry.]

1. Pertaining to marriage; done at a wedding; as nuptial rites and ceremonies; nuptial torch.

2. Constituting marriage; as the nuptial knot or band.

The Bible has mitigated the horrors of war; it has given effectual obligation to the nuptial vow.

NUP'TIALS, noun plural Marriage, which see.

NURSE, noun

1. A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others.

2. A woman who suckles infants.

3. A woman that has the care of a sick person.

4. A man who has the care of the sick.

5. A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts.

6. An old woman; in contempt.

7. The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse

8. In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond.

NURSE, verb transitive

1. To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child.

2. To suckle; to nourish at the breast.

3. To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness.

4. To tend the sick; applied to males and females.

5. To ffed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60:4.

6. To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in. We say, to nurse a feeble animal or plant.

By what hands has vice been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion?

7. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.

NURS'ED, participle passive Tended in infancy or sickness; nourished from the breast maintained; cherished.

NURS'ER, noun One that cherishes or encourages growth.

NURS'ERY, noun

1. The place or apartment in a house appropriated to the care of children.

2. A place where young trees are propagated for the purpose of being transplanted; a plantation of young trees.

3. The place where any thing is fostered and the growth promoted.

To see fair Padua, nursery of arts.

So we say , a nursery of thieves or of rogues. Ale houses and dram-shops are the nurseries of intemperance.

Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven.

4. Taht which forms and educates. Commerce is the nursery of seamen.

5. The act of nursing. [Little used.]

6. That which is the object of a nurse's care.

NURS'ING, participle present tense Tending; nourishing at the breast; education; maintaining.

NURS'LING, noun

1. An infant; a child.

2. One that is nursed.

NUR'TURE, noun

1. That which nourishes; food; diet.

2. That which promotes growth; education; instruction. Ephesians 6:4.

NUR'TURE, verb transitive

1. To feed; to nourish.

2. To educate; to bring or train up.

He was nurtured where he was born.

NUSANCE. [See Nuisance.]

NU'SANCE, noun [Latin to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]

1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. A liar is a nusance to society.

2. In law, that which incommodes or annoys; something that produces inconvenience or damage. Nusances are public or private; public, when they annoy citizens in general, as obstructions of the highway; private, when they affect individuals only, as when one man erects a house so near his neighbor's as to throw the water off the roof upon his neighbor's land or house, or to intercept the light that his neighbor before enjoyed.

NUT, noun [It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]

1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit. Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut.

2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel.

3. The projection near the eye of an anchor.

NUT, verb transitive To gather nuts.

NUTA'TION, noun [Latin , a nodding, to nod.] In astronomy, a kind of tremulous motion of the axis of the earth, by which in its annual revolution it is twice inclined to the ecliptic, and as often returns to its former position.

NUT'GALL, noun An excrescence of the oak.

NUT'MEG, noun [Latin But it may be questionable whether the last syllable in English, meg, is not from Latin , mace, the bark that envelops the nut.] The fruit of a tree of the genus Myristica, growing in the isles of the East Indies and South Sea. The tree gorws to the gighth of thirty feet, producing numerous branches. The color of the bark of the trunk is a reddish brown; that of the young branches a bright green. The fruit is of the kind called drupe, that is, a pulpy pericarp without valves, containing a nut or kernel. The covering of this nut is the mace. The nutmeg is an aromatic, very grateful to the taste and smell, and much used in cookery.

NUTRICA'TION, noun Manner of feeding or being fed. [Not in use.]

NU'TRIENT, adjective [Latin] Nourishing; promoting growth.

NU'TRIENT, noun Any substance which nourishes by promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies.

NU'TRIMENT, noun [Latin , from to nourish.]

1. That which nourishes; that which promotes the growth or repairs the natural waste of animal bodies, or that which promotes the growth of vegetables; food; aliment.

2. That which promotes enlargement or improvement; as the nutriment of the mind.

NUTRIMENT'AL, adjective Having the qualities of food; alimental.

NUTRI'TION, noun [Latin , to nourish.]

1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables.

2. That which nourishes; nutriment.

Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition propagate, and rot.

There is no nutrition in ardent spirits.

NUTRI'TIOUS, adjective Nourishing; promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies. Milk is very nutritious

NU'TRITIVE, adjective Having the quality of nourishing; nutrimental; alimental; as a nutritive food.

NU'TRITURE, noun The quality of nourishing. [Not used.]

NUT'-SHELL, noun

1. The hard shell of a nut; the covering of the kernel.

2. Proverbially, a thing of little compass or of little value.

NUT'-TREE, noun A tree that bears nuts.

NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle.] To nurse; to foster. [Vulgar.]

NUZZLE, verb transitive [qu. from nose or noursle.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom.

NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle or nestle.] To nestle; to house as in a nest.

NUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive [qu. from nose.] To go with the nose near the ground, or thrusting the nose into the ground like a swine.