NYC'TALOPS, noun [Gr., night and the eye.]
1. One that sees best in the night.
2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning.
NYC'TALOPY, noun
1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds.
2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sight as night approaches, and remains blind till morning.
NYE, noun A brood or flock of pheasants.
NYL'GAU, noun A quadruped of the genus Bos, a native of the interior of India, of a middle size between the cow and the deer. Its body, horns and tail are not unlike those of a bull; the head, neck and legs resemble those of the deer. The color is an ash gray.
NYMPH, noun
1. In mythology, a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows and waters. According to the ancients, all the world was full of nymphs, some terrestrial, others celestial; and these had names assigned to them according to their place of residence, or the parts of the world over which they were supposed to preside.
2. In poetry, a lady.
NYMPH, noun Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.
NYMPH'A, noun Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.
NYMPHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as a nymphean cave.
NYMPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to nymphs.
NYMPH'ISH, adjective Relating to nymphs; lady-like.
NYMPH'LIKE, adjective Resembling nymphs.
NYMPH'LY, adjective Resembling nymphs.
NYS, [ne and is.] None is; is not.