Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 11
Neoplatonist (n.) One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.
Neoplatonist (n.) An adherent of Neoplatonism.
Neorama (n.) A panorama of the interior of a building, seen from within.
Compare: Panorama
Panorama (n.) (pl. -s) [C] 全景畫；活動畫景；全景 A complete view in every direction.
Panorama (n.) Hence: A comprehensive survey of a particular topic; also, a broad view of the development of a series of events.
Panorama (n.) A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
Panorama (n.) A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator. Panoramic
Panorama (n.) The visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" [syn: view, aspect, prospect, scene, vista, panorama].
Panorama (n.) A picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene [syn: panorama, cyclorama, diorama].
Neossine (n.) The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.
Neossology (n.) (Zool.) The study of young birds. Neoteric
Neoteric (a.) Alt. of Neoterical.
Neoterical (a.) 現代的；新式的；新發明的 Recent in origin; modern; new. "Our neoteric verbs." -- Fitzed. Hall.
Some being ancient, others neoterical. -- Bacon.
Neoteric (n.) 現代人；（尤指）現代作家 One of modern times; a modern.
Neoterically (adv.) Recently; newly.
Neoterism (n.) An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.
Neoterist (n.) 創造新詞者 One who introduces new words or phrases; a neologist. -- Fitzed Hall.
Neoterized (imp. & p. p.) of Neoterize.
Neoterized (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neoterize.
Neoterize (v. i.) To innovate; to coin or introduce new words.
Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. -- fized. Hall.
Neotropical (a.) (Geog. & Zool.) Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.
Neozoic (a.) (Geol.) More recent than the Paleozoic, -- that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
Nep (n.) (Bot.) Catnip.
NEP, () Never-Ending Program.
Nepa (n.) (Zool.) A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
Nepa (n.) Type genus of the Nepidae: typical elongate-oval water scorpions [syn: Nepa, genus Nepa].
Nepalese (prop. a.) Of or pertaining to Nepal, a kingdom North of India; as, Nepalese troops massed at the border. [Formerly written Nepaulese.].
Syn: Nepali.
Nepaulese (prop. a.) Of or pertaining to Nepal (formerly written Nepaul), a kingdom North of India; same as Nepalese. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal.
Nepenthe (n.) A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. -- Pope.
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. -- Poe.
Nepenthes (n.) Same as Nepenthe. -- Milton.
Nepenthes (n.) (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.
Nepenthes (n.) Pitcher plants [syn: Nepenthes, genus Nepenthes].
Nepeta (n.) [L.] (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
Nepeta (n.) Catmint [syn: Nepeta, genus Nepeta].
Nephalism (n.) Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
Nephalist (n.) One who advocates or practices nephalism. Nepheline
Nepheline (n.) Alt. of Nephelite.
Nephelite (n.) (Min.) 霞石（一種寶石） A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.
Nepheline (n.) A whitish mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate in crystalline form; used in the manufacture of ceramics and enamels [syn: nepheline, nephelite].
Nephelodometer (n.) (Meteorol.) An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
Nephelometer (n.) An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
Nephelometer (n.) (Chem., Microbiol.) An instrument which measures the degree to which liquid suspensions scatter light, and by inference, the concentration of scattering particles in the suspension. It is used for various purposes, such as to estimate the number of bacteria in suspension in a liquid.
Nephew (n.) 姪兒；外甥；先生或太太的外甥和姪兒 [C] A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.]
But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren]. -- 1 Tim. v. 4.
If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. -- Jer. Taylor.
Nephew (n.) A cousin. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Nephew (n.) The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law. -- Chaucer.
Nephew (n.) A son of your brother or sister [ant: niece].
Nephew, () dom. rel. The son of a person's brother or sister. Amb. 514; 1 Jacob's Ch. R. 207.
Nephilim (n. pl.) Giants. -- Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33.
Nephilim, () (Gen. 6:4; Num. 13:33, R.V.), giants, the Hebrew word left untranslated by the Revisers, the name of one of the Canaanitish tribes. The Revisers have, however, translated the Hebrew gibborim, in Gen. 6:4, "mighty men."
Nephoscope (n.) (Meteorol.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity. Nephralgia
Nephoscope (n.) A measuring instrument that uses a grid for measuring the altitude, direction, and velocity of movement of clouds.
Nephralgia (n.) Alt. of Nephralgy.
Nephralgy (n.) (Med.) Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. -- Quain.
Nephralgia (n.) Pain in the kidney (usually felt in the loins).
Nephridial (a.) (Zool. & Anat.) Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
Nephridia (n. pl. ) of Nephridium.
Nephridium (n.) (Zool. & Anat.) A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.
Nephrite (n.) (Min.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. It varies in color from white to dark green. It is the more common and less valuable variety of jade, the other being jadeite. Large deposits are found in Australia. Called also nephritic stone. See also Jade. -- [MW10] Nephritic
Nephrite (n.) An amphibole mineral consisting of calcium magnesium silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade that is less valuable than from jadeite; once believed to cure kidney disorders.
Nephritic (a.) Alt. of Nephritical.
Nephritical (a.) Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.
Nephritical (a.) (Med.) Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.
Nephritical (a.) (Med.) Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine.
Nephritical (a.) Of or pertaining to nephrite.
Nephritic stone (Min.), Nephrite; jade. See Nephrite.
Nephritic (n.) (Med.) A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.
Nephritic (a.) Affected by nephritis.
Nephritic (a.) Of or relating to the kidneys [syn: nephritic, renal].
Nephritis (n.) (Med.) An inflammation of the kidneys.
Nephritis (n.) An inflammation of the kidney [syn: nephritis, Bright's disease].
Nephrolithic (a.) (Med.) 腎結石的 Of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. -- Dunglison.
Nephrology (n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.
Nephrology (n.) The branch of medicine concerned with the kidney - its development and anatomy and physiology and disorders.
Nephrology (n.) [ U ] (Specialized) 【醫】腎臟學 The area of science and medicine that is concerned with the kidneys.
Nephrostome (n.) (Zool. & Anat.) The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
Nephrotomy (n.) (Surg.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Nephrotomy (n.) Incision into a kidney (usually to remove a kidney stone).
Ne plus ultra, () The uttermost point to which one can go or attain; hence, the summit of achievement; the highest point or degree; the acme.
Ne plus ultra, () A prohibition against proceeding further; an insuperable obstacle or limiting condition. [Obs. or R.]
Ne plus ultra (n.) The state of being without a flaw or defect [syn: perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra] [ant: imperfection, imperfectness].
Ne plus ultra (n.) The highest point, as of excellence or achievement; the acme; the pinnacle; the ultimate.
Ne plus ultra (n.) The most profound degree of a quality or condition. Ne plus ultra is from Latin, literally, "(go) no more beyond", from ne, "not" + plus, "more" + ultra, "beyond."
Nepotal (a.) Of or relating to a nephew.
Nepotic (a.) Of or pertaining to nepotism.
The nepotic ambition of the ruling pontiff. -- Milman.
Nepotism (n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.
From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the tide of popularity against him -- the nepotism of his order. -- Milman.
Nepotism (n.) Favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs).
Nepotism (n.) Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
Nepotist (n.) One who practices nepotism.
Nepotist (n.) A powerful person who shows favoritism to relatives or close friends.
Neptune (n.) (Rom. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
Neptune (n.) (Astron.) The remotest major planet of our solar system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. It is classed as a gas giant, and has a radius of 22,716 km and an estimated mass of 1.027 x 10^{26 kg, with an average density of 2.27 g/cc. Its mean distance from the sun is about 5,000,000,000 km (3,106,856,000 miles), and its period of revolution is about 164.78 years.
Neptune powder, An explosive containing nitroglycerin, -- used in blasting.
Neptune's cup (Zool.), A very large, cup-shaped, marine sponge ({Thalassema Neptuni).
Neptune (n.) (Roman mythology) God of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon.
Neptune (n.) A giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; "the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846".
Neptune, () A hypertext system for computer assisted software engineering, developed at Tektronix.
Neptunian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
Neptunian (a.) (Geol.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
Neptunian races (Ethnol.), The Malay and Polynesian races.
Neptunian theory (Geol.), The theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory. Neptunian
Neptunian (n.) Alt. of Neptunist.
Neptunist (n.) (Geol.) One who adopts the neptunian theory.
Neptunicentric (a.) (Astron.) As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.
Neptunium (n.) [NL.] A radioactive metallic element of atomic number 93, produced in nuclear reactors from Plutonium or Uranium. Symbol Np; The atomic weight of the most stable isotope is 237.0482.
Neptunium
(n.) A
radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium
ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium [syn: neptunium, Np,
atomic number 93].
Neptunium
Symbol: Np
Atomic number: 93
Atomic weight: (237)
Radioactive metallic transuranic element, belongs to the actinoids.
Np-237, the most stable isotope, has a half-life of 2.2*10^6 years and Is a by product of nuclear reactors. The other known isotopes have mass numbers 229 through 236, and 238 through 241. Np-236 has a half-life of 5*10^3 years. First produced by Edwin M. McMillan and P.H. Abelson in 1940.
Neptunium (n.) A new metallic element, of doubtful genuineness and uncertain indentification, said to exist in certain minerals, as columbite.
Ner (adv. & a.) nearer. [Obs.] See Nerre.
Nerre (adv. & a.) [See Near.] Nearer. [Obs.] [Written also neer, ner.] -- Chaucer.
Never the neer, Never the nearer; no nearer. [Obs.]
Ner, () Light, the father of Kish (1 Chr. 8:33). 1 Sam. 14:51 should be read, "Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were the sons of Abiel." And hence this Kish and Ner were brothers, and Saul and Abner were first cousins (comp. 1 Chr. 9:36).
Ner, () A lamp; new-tilled land
Nere () Were not. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Nereids (n. pl. ) of Nereid.
Nereides (n. pl. ) of Nereid.
Nereid (n.) (Class. Myth.) A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
Nereid (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
Nereidian (n.) (Zool.) Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
Nereides (n. pl. ) of Nereis.
Nereis (n.) (Class. Myth.) A Nereid. See Nereid.
Nereis (n.) (Zool.) A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.
Nereites (n. pl.) (Paleon.) Fossil tracks of annelids.
Nereocystis (n.) (Bot.) A genus of gigantic seaweeds.
Nerfling (n.) (Zool.) The id.
Nerita (n.) (Zool.) A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.
Nerita (n.) A neritid gastropod having a short smooth or spirally ridged shell with thick usually toothed outer lip and toothed operculum.
Nerite (n.) (Zool.) Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.
Neritina (prop. n.) (Zool.) A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
Neritina (n.) Ornately marked and brightly colored snails of brackish waters.
Nero (prop. n.) A Roman emperor notorious for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant. -- Ne*ro"ni*an, a.
Nero (originally Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, later Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus). Born at Antium, Italy, Dec. 15, 37 a. d.: committed suicide near Rome, June 9, 68. Roman emperor 54-68, son of Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina (daughter of Germanicus).
He was adopted by his stepfather, the emperor Claudius, in 50, and in 53 married Octavia, the daughter of Claudius by Messalina. In 54 Claudius was poisoned by Agrippina, who caused her son to be proclaimed to the exclusion of Britannicus, the son of Claudius. His former tutors, the philosopher Seneca and Burrus, commander of the pretorian guards, were placed at the head of the government, and the early years of his reign were marked, on the whole, by clemency and justice. He caused his rival Britannicus to be removed by poison in 55. In 59 he procured the assassination of his mother, of whose control he had become impatient.
Burrus died in 62, whereupon Seneca retired from public life.
Freed from the restraint of his former advisers, he gave free rein to a naturally tyrannical and cruel disposition. He divorced Octavia in order to marry Poppaea, and shortly afterward put Octavia to death (62). Poppaea ultimately died from the effects of a kick administered by her brutal husband. Having been accused of kindling the fire which in 64 destroyed a large part of Rome, he sought to divert attention from himself by ordering a persecution of the Christians, whom he accused of having caused the Conflagration. He put Seneca to death in 65, and 66-68 visited Greece, where he competed for the prizes as a musician and charioteer in the religious festivals. He was overthrown by a revolt under Galba, and stabbed himself to death with the assistance of his secretary.
But the imperial Reign of Terror was limited to a comparatively small number of families in Rome. The provinces ware undoubtedly better governed than in the later days of the Republic, and even in Rome itself the common people strewed flowers on the grave of Nero. -- Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders, I. 6.
Nero (n.) Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68) [syn: Nero, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus].
NERO, () Neuro-Evolving Robotic Operatives [project].
Nero, () Occurs only in the superscription (which is probably spurious, and is altogether omitted in the R.V.) to the Second Epistle to Timothy. He became emperor of Rome when he was about seventeen years of age (A.D. 54), and soon began to exhibit the character of a cruel tyrant and heathen debauchee. In May A.D. 64, a terrible conflagration broke out in Rome, which raged for six days and seven nights, and totally destroyed a great part of the city. The guilt of this fire was attached to him at the time, and the general verdict of history accuses him of the crime. "Hence, to suppress the rumour," says Tacitus (Annals, xv. 44), "he falsely charged with the guilt, and punished with the most exquisite tortures, the persons commonly called Christians, who are hated for their enormities. Christus, the founder of that name, was put to death as a criminal by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea, in the reign of Tiberius; but the pernicious superstition, repressed for a time, broke out again, not only throughout Judea, where the mischief originated, but through the city of Rome also, whither all things horrible and disgraceful flow, from all quarters, as to a common receptacle, and where they are encouraged. Accordingly, first three were seized, who confessed they were Christians. Next, on their information, a vast multitude were convicted, not so much on the charge of burning the city as of hating the human race. And in their deaths they were also made the subjects of sport; for they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set fire to, and, when day declined, burned to serve for nocturnal lights. Nero offered his own gardens for that spectacle, and exhibited a Circensian game, indiscriminately mingling with the common people in the habit of a charioteer, or else standing in his chariot; whence a feeling of compassion arose toward the sufferers, though guilty and deserving to be made examples of by capital punishment, because they seemed not to be cut off for the public good, but victims to the ferocity of one man." Another Roman historian, Suetonius (Nero, xvi.), says of him: "He likewise inflicted punishments on the Christians, a sort of people who hold a new and impious superstition" (Forbes's Footsteps of St. Paul, p. 60).
Nero was the emperor before whom Paul was brought on his first imprisonment at Rome, and the apostle is supposed to have suffered martyrdom during this persecution. He is repeatedly alluded to in Scripture (Acts 25:11; Phil. 1:12, 13; 4:22). He died A.D. 68.
Neroli (n.) (Chem.) An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.
Neroli camphor (Chem.), A white crystalline waxy substance, tasteless and odorless, obtained from neroli oil; -- called also auradin.
Nerre (adv. & a.) Nearer. [Obs.] [Written also neer, ner.] -- Chaucer.
Never the neer, Never the nearer; no nearer. [Obs.]
Nervate (a.) (Bot.) 【植】有葉脈的 Nerved.
Nervation (n.) 【植】【動】脈序；脈狀；翅脈 The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.
The outlines of the fronds of ferns, and their nervation, are frail characters if employed alone for the determination of existing genera. -- J. D. Hooker.
Nerve (n.) (Anat.) 神經 [C]；神經過敏；憂慮，焦躁 [P]；勇敢，膽量；沉著，鎮定 [U]；厚顏，無恥 [S]；【植】葉脈；【昆】翅脈 [C] One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each bundle inclosed in a special sheath (the perineurium) and all bound together in a connective tissue sheath and framework (the epineurium) containing blood vessels and lymphatics.
Nerve (n.) A sinew or a tendon. -- Pope.
Nerve (n.) Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
He led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm. -- Milton.
Nerve (n.) Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
Nerve (n.) Audacity; assurance. [Slang]
Nerve (n.) (Bot.) One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
Nerve (n.) (Zool.) One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
Nerve cell (Anat.), A neuron, one of the nucleated cells with which nerve fibers are connected; a ganglion cell is one type of nerve cell.
Nerve fiber (Anat.), One of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either medullated or nonmedullated. In both kinds the essential part is the translucent threadlike axis cylinder which is continuous the whole length of the fiber.
Nerve stretching (Med.), The operation of stretching a nerve in order to remedy diseases such as tetanus, which are supposed to be influenced by the condition of the nerve or its connections.
Nerved (imp. & p. p.) of Nerve.
Nerving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nerve.
Nerve (v. t.) （常後接反身代名詞）鼓勵，激勵 [（+up/ for）] [O2] To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
Nerve (n.) Any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body [syn: nerve, nervus].
Nerve (n.) The courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, mettle, nerve, spunk].
Nerve (n.) Impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek].
Nerve (v.) Get ready for something difficult or unpleasant [syn: steel, nerve].
Nerve agents (n.) 神經性毒劑（Nerve agent）是一類含磷的有機化學物質（有機磷酸鹽），可以破壞生物神經將信息傳遞到器官的機制。神經性毒劑藉由阻斷乙醯膽鹼酯酶，乙醯膽鹼酯酶是降解（通過其水解活性）神經遞質乙醯膽鹼成為膽鹼和乙酸的酶。
根據聯合國第687號決議（1991年4月通過），神經性毒劑被聯合國列為大規模毀滅性化學武器，1993年化學武器公約所禁止生產和儲存，化學武器公約於1997年4月29日正式生效。1899年和1907年海牙公約和1925年日內瓦議定書中已經禁止在戰爭中使用化學氣體。
神經性毒劑引起的中毒將導致瞳孔收縮，大量唾液分泌，抽搐，大小便失禁，並導致呼吸肌的控制喪失而窒息死亡。一些神經藥劑容易蒸發或霧化，並且經由呼吸系統進入身體。神經性毒劑也可以被皮膚吸收。
Sometimes also called nerve gases, are a class of organic chemicals that disrupt the mechanisms by which nerves transfer messages to organs. The disruption is caused by the blocking of acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter.
Poisoning by a nerve agent leads to constriction of pupils, profuse salivation, convulsions, and involuntary urination and defecation, with the first symptoms appearing in seconds after exposure. Death by asphyxiation or cardiac arrest may follow in minutes due to the loss of the body's control over respiratory and other muscles. Some nerve agents are readily vaporized or aerosolized, and the primary portal of entry into the body is the respiratory system. Nerve agents can also be absorbed through the skin, requiring that those likely to be subjected to such agents wear a full body suit in addition to a respirator.
Nerve agents are generally colorless to amber-colored, tasteless liquids that may evaporate to a gas. Agents sarin and VX are odorless; tabun has a slightly fruity odor and soman has a slight camphor odor. [1]
Nerve agent (n.) A toxic gas that is inhaled or absorbed through the skin and has harmful effects on the nervous and respiratory system [syn: nerve gas, nerve agent].
Nerved (a.) （用於複合字中）神經……的；勇敢的；nerve 的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
Nerved (a.) (Bot.) Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.
Nerveless (a.) 無力的；沉著的 Destitute of nerves.
Nerveless (a.) Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
A kingless people for a nerveless state. -- Byron.
Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. -- Hawthorne.
Nerveless (a.) Marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool, coolheaded, nerveless].
Nerveless (a.) Lacking strength; "a weak, nerveless fool, devoid of energy and promptitude" -- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: feeble, nerveless].
Nervelessness (n.) The state of being nerveless.
Nervelessness (n.) Fearless self-possession in the face of danger [syn: coolness, nervelessness].
Nerve-shaken (a.) Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
Nervimotion (n.) (Physiol.) The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. -- Dunglison.