Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 16
Nigh (adv.) [文] 接近地，靠近地 [（+on/ onto/ upon）]；幾乎 Almost; nearly; as, he was nigh dead.
Nigh (v. t. & i.) To draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near. [Obs.] -- Wyclif (Matt. iii. 2).
Nigh (prep.) Near to; not remote or distant from. "was not this nigh shore?" -- Shak.
Nigh (adv.) Near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire" [syn: near, nigh, close].
Nigh (adv.) (Of actions or states) Slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh].
Nigh (a.) [文] 近的；親密的；【方】直接的，短的 Not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call" [syn: near, close, nigh] [ant: far].
Nigh (a.) Being on the left side; "the near or nigh horse is the one on the left"; "the animal's left side is its near or nigh side" [syn: near(a), nigh(a)].
Night (n.) 夜；晚上 [C] [U]；（夜晚的）活動；（演出的）夜場 [C] That space of time during which the sun is below the horizon of the earth, except, that short space which precedes its rising and follows its setting, during which, by its light, the countenance of a man may be discerned. I Hale, P. C. 550; 3 Inst. 63; 4 Bl. Com. 224; 1 Hawk. P. C. 101; 3 Chit. Cr. Law, 1093; 2 Leach, 710; Bac. Ab. Burglary, D; 2 East, P. C. 509; 2 Russ. Cr. 32; Rosc. Cr. Ev. 278; 7 Dane's Ab. 134.
Nighly (adv.) In a near relation in place, time, degree, etc.; within a little; almost. [Obs.]
A cube and a sphere . . . nighly of the same bigness. -- Locke.
Nighness (n.) The quality or state of being nigh. [R.] "Nighness of blood." -- Holished.
Night (n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. -- Gen. i. 5.
Night (n.) Hence: Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night. -- Pope.
Night (n.) Hence: Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
Night (n.) Hence: A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
Night (n.) Hence: The period after the close of life; death.
She closed her eyes in everlasting night. -- Dryden.
Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, rage against the dying of the light. -- Dylan Thomas.
Night (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep. "Sad winter's night". -- Spenser.
Note: Night is sometimes used, esp. with participles, in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, night-blooming, night-born, night-warbling, etc.
Night by night, Night after night, Nightly; many nights.
So help me God, as I have watched the night, Ay, night by night, in studying good for England. -- Shak.
Night bird. (Zool.) (a) The moor hen ({Gallinula chloropus).
Night bird. (Zool.) (b) The Manx shearwater ({Puffinus Anglorum).
Night blindness. (Med.) See Hemeralopia.
Night cart, A cart used to remove the contents of privies by night.
Night churr, (Zool.), The nightjar.
Night crow, A bird that cries in the night.
Night dog, A dog that hunts in the night, -- used by poachers.
Night fire. (a) Fire burning in the night.
Night fire. (b) Ignis fatuus; Will-o'-the-wisp; Jask-with-a-lantern.
Night flyer (Zool.), Any creature that flies in the night, as some birds and insects.
Night glass, A spyglass constructed to concentrate a large amount of light, so as see objects distinctly at night. -- Totten.
Night green, Iodine green.
Night hag, A witch supposed to wander in the night.
Night hawk (Zool.), An American bird ({Chordeiles Virginianus), allied to the goatsucker. It hunts the insects on which it feeds toward evening, on the wing, and often, diving down perpendicularly, produces a loud whirring sound, like that of a spinning wheel. Also sometimes applied to the European goatsuckers. It is called also bull bat.
Night heron (Zool.), Any one of several species of herons of the genus Nycticorax, found in various parts of the world. The best known species is Nycticorax griseus, or Nycticorax nycticorax, of Europe, and the American variety (var. naevius). The yellow-crowned night heron ({Nyctanassa violacea syn. Nycticorax violaceus) inhabits the Southern States. Called also qua-bird, and squawk.
Night house, A public house, or inn, which is open at night.
Night key, A key for unfastening a night latch.
Night latch, A kind of latch for a door, which is operated from the outside by a key.
Night monkey (Zool.), An owl monkey.
Night moth (Zool.), Any one of the noctuids.
Night parrot (Zool.), The kakapo.
Night piece, A painting representing some night scene, as a moonlight effect, or the like.
Night rail, A loose robe, or garment, worn either as a nightgown, or over the dress at night, or in sickness. [Obs.]
Night raven (Zool.), A bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern.
Night rule. (a.) A tumult, or frolic, in the night; -- as if a corruption, of night revel. [Obs.]
Night rule. (b.) Such conduct as generally rules, or prevails, at night.
What night rule now about this haunted grove? -- Shak.
Night sight. (Med.) See Nyctolopia.
Night snap, A night thief. [Cant] -- Beau. & Fl.
Night soil, Human excrement; -- so called because in cities it is collected by night and carried away for manure.
Night spell, A charm against accidents at night.
Night swallow (Zool.), The nightjar.
Night walk, A walk in the evening or night.
Night walker. (a) One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist; a noctambulist.
Night walker. (b) One who roves about in the night for evil purposes; specifically, a prostitute who walks the streets.
Night walking. (a) Walking in one's sleep; sleep walking; somnambulism; noctambulism.
Night walking (b) Walking the streets at night with evil designs.
Night warbler (Zool.), The sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus phragmitis); -- called also night singer. [Prov. Eng.]
Night watch. (a) A period in the night, as distinguished by the change of watch.
Night watch. (b) A watch, or guard, to aford protection in the night.
Night watcher, One who watches in the night; especially, one who watches with evil designs.
Night witch. Same as Night hag, above.
Night (n.) The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside [syn: night, nighttime, dark] [ant: day, daylight, daytime].
Night (n.) A period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom.
Night (n.) The period spent sleeping; "I had a restless night".
Night (n.) The dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; "three nights later he collapsed".
Night (n.) Darkness; "it vanished into the night".
Night (n.) A shortening of nightfall; "they worked from morning to night".
Night (n.) The time between sunset and midnight; "he watched television every night".
Night (n.) Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx [syn: Nox, Night].
Night-blooming (a.) Blooming in the night.
Night-blooming cereus. (Bot.) See Note under Cereus.
Nightcap (n.) [C] 睡帽；【口】睡前飲的一杯酒；晚飯或飲宴的最後一杯酒 A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
Nightcap (n.) An alcoholic beverage drunk at bedtime. [Cant] -- Wright.
Nightcap (n.) An alcoholic drink taken at bedtime; often alcoholic.
Nightcap (n.) A cloth cap worn in bed.
Nightcap (n.) The final game of a double header.
Nightdress (n.) 女睡袍；（兒童的）睡衣 A nightgown.
Nightdress (n.) Lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown, gown, nightie, night- robe, nightdress].
Nighted (a.) 入夜的；黑暗像夜的 Darkness; clouded. [R.] -- Shak.
Nighted (a.) Overtaken by night; belated. -- Beau. & Fl.
Nighted (a.) Overtaken by night or darkness; "benighted (or nighted) travelers hurrying toward home" [syn: benighted, nighted].
Nightertale (n.) 夜間 Period of night; nighttime. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Night-eyed (a.) 黑夜裡能看見東西的；夜視的 Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. "Your night-eyed Tiberius." -- B. Jonson.
Nightfall (n.) 黃昏，傍晚；日暮 [U] The close of the day ; the arrival of the night; the period at and just after dusk. -- Swift.
Nightfall (n.) The time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle].
Night-faring (a.) Going or traveling in the night. -- Gay.
Nightgown (n.) A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleeping garnment.
Nightclothes (n.)（複數）睡衣 Garments designed to be worn in bed, such as pyjamas, a nightgown, etc.
Syn: nightwear.
Nightgown (n.) [C] 女睡袍；男用長睡衫 Lingerie consisting of a loose dress designed to be worn in bed by women [syn: nightgown, gown, nightie, night-robe, nightdress].
Compare: Lingerie
Lingerie (n.) 女用貼身內衣褲；女睡衣 [U] Women's underwear and nightclothes.
‘Honestly, she writes well and knows her lingerie from strap to underwire and back again.’
Nightgown (n.) (Archaic) （室內穿的長而寬鬆的）晨衣，浴袍 Dressing gown.
Nightgown (n.) A loose garment for wear in bed.
Nightingale (n.) (Zool.)【鳥】夜鶯 A small, plain, brown and gray European song bird ({Luscinia megarhynchos} syn. {Luscinia luscinia}). It sings at night, and is celebrated for the sweetness of its song.
Nightingale (n.) (Zool.) A larger species ({Lucinia Philomela}), of Eastern Europe, having similar habits; the thrush nightingale. The name is also applied to other allied species.
Mock nightingale. (Zool.) See Blackcap, n., 1 (a) .
Nightingale (n.) European songbird noted for its melodious nocturnal song [syn: {nightingale}, {Luscinia megarhynchos}].
Nightingale (n.) 南丁格爾（1820-1910，英國護士業的首創者及醫院之改革者） English nurse remembered for her work during the Crimean War (1820-1910) [syn: {Nightingale}, {Florence Nightingale}, {Lady with the Lamp}].
Nightish (a.) Of or pertaining to night.
Compare: Goatsucker
Goatsucker (n.) (Zool.) 夜鷹 One of several species of insectivorous birds, belonging to Caprimulgus and allied genera, esp. the European species ({Caprimulgus Europ[ae]us); -- so called from the mistaken notion that it sucks goats. The European species is also goat-milker, goat owl, goat chaffer, fern owl, night hawk, nightjar, night churr, churr-owl, gnat hawk, and dorhawk.
Goatsucker (n.) Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects [syn: goatsucker, nightjar, caprimulgid].
Nightjar (n.) 【鳥】歐夜鷹 A goatsucker, esp. the European species. See Illust. of Goatsucker.
Nightjar (n.) Mainly crepuscular or nocturnal nonpasserine birds with mottled greyish-brown plumage and large eyes; feed on insects [syn: goatsucker, nightjar, caprimulgid].
Nightless (a.) Having no night. Night letter
Nightlong (a.) 整夜的 Lasting all night.
Nightlong (a.) Lasting, open, or operating through the whole night; "a nightlong vigil"; "an all-night drugstore"; "an overnight trip" [syn: nightlong, all-night, overnight].
Nightlong (a.) Lasting the whole night.
// Nightlong festivities.
Nightlong (adv.) 整夜地 Through the whole night.
Nightly (adv.) 每夜；【舊】在夜間 At night; every night.
Nightly (a.) 每夜的；【舊】晚上的，夜間的 Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils.
Nightly (adv.) At the end of each day; "she checks on her roses nightly" [syn: nightly, every night].
Nightly (a.) Happening every night; "nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m."
Nightmarish (a.) 惡夢似的；可怕的 Terrifying, as if in a nightmare [2]; resembling a Nightmare [2].
Syn: bloodcurdling, hair-raising.
Nightmarish (a.) Extremely alarming [syn: bloodcurdling, hair-raising, nightmarish].
Nightmen (n. pl. ) of Nightman.
Nightman (n.) （夜間工作之）掏糞工人，淨廁工人；夜間工作的人 One whose business is emptying privies by night.
Nightmare (n.) [C] 夢魘；惡夢；夢魘般的經歷；恐怖的事 A fiend or incubus formerly supposed to cause trouble in sleep. [archaic]
Nightmare (n.) A trerrifying or oppressive dream characterized by a sense of helplessness in the face of danger, extreme uneasiness or discomfort (as of weight on the chest or stomach, impossibility of motion or speech, etc.) or extreme anxiety, from which one wakes in a troubled state of mind.
Nightmare (n.) Hence: Any overwhelming, oppressive, or terrifying experience resembling a nightmare [2] especially in the inability to escape from an unpleasant situation.
Nightmare (n.) A situation resembling a terrifying dream [syn: {nightmare}, {incubus}].
Nightmare (n.) A terrifying or deeply upsetting dream.
Nightmare (n.) [ C ] (B1) 夢魘，噩夢 A very upsetting or frightening dream.
// A terrifying nightmare.
// I shouldn't have watched that movie - it'll give me nightmares.
Nightmare (n.) [ C ] (B1) 極不愉快的事情，可怕的經歷；可能發生的壞事 An extremely unpleasant event or experience or possible event or experience.
// The whole journey was a nightmare - we lost our luggage and both flights were delayed.
// Being trapped underwater is my worst nightmare.
Nightshade (n.) (Bot.) 茄屬植物 A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous.
Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a).
Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter.
Stinking nightshade. See Henbane.
Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.
Nightshade (n.) Any of numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus Solanum; most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit.
Deadly Nightshade (n.) [ C or U ] (Also belladonna) 顛茄（一種有毒的植物，結黑而亮的小果，見於歐洲、北非和西亞） A very poisonous plant with small, black, shiny fruits, that grows in Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia.
Nightshirt (n.) 男用長睡衫 A kind of nightgown for men.
Nightshirt (n.) Nightclothes worn by men.
Nighttime (n.) 夜間 The time from dusk to dawn; -- opposed to daytime.
Nighttime (n.) The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside [syn: night, nighttime, dark] [ant: day, daylight, daytime].
Nighttime (n.) The time between evening and morning.
Nighttime (a.) 夜間的 Occurring, done, presented, etc., during the night, especially the hours before midnight.
Nightward (a.) Approaching toward night.
Nightwear (n.) 睡衣；睡衣類 Garments designed to be worn in bed [syn: {nightwear}, {sleepwear}, {nightclothes}]
Nigraniline (n.) (Chem.) The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.
Nigrescent (a.) 漸漸變黑的；帶黑色的 Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. -- Johnson.
Nigrification (n.) 變黑 The act or process of making black. [R.] -- Johnson.
Nigrine (n.) (Min.) 鐵金紅石 A ferruginous variety of rutile.
Nigritude (n.) Blackness; the state of being black. -- Lamb.
Nigromancie (n.) Necromancy. [Obs.]
Nigromancien (n.) A necromancer. [Obs.]
These false enchanters or nigromanciens. -- Chaucer.
Nigrosine (n.) (Chem.) A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.
Nigua (n.) [Sp.] (Zool.) The chigoe. Ni-hard
Nihil (n.) [L.] Nothing.
Nihil album (Chem.), oxide of zinc. See under Zinc.
Nihil debet (Law), The general issue in certain actions of debt.
Nihil dicit (Law), A declinature by the defendant to plead or answer. -- Tomlins.
Nihil (n.) (Latin) Nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet".
Nihilism (n.) Nothingness; nihility.
Nihilism (n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.
Nihilism (n.) (Politics) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.
Nihilism (n.) A revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake.
Nihilism (n.) The delusion that things (or everything, including the self do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal [syn: nihilistic delusion, nihilism].
Nihilism (n.) Complete denial of all established authority and institutions.
Nihilist (n.) One who advocates the doctrine of nihilism; one who believes or teaches that nothing can be known, or asserted to exist.
Nihilist (n.) (Politics) A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.
Nihilist (n.) Someone who rejects all theories of morality or religious belief.
Nihilist (n.) An advocate of anarchism [syn: anarchist, nihilist, syndicalist].
Nihilist (n.) A Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the school is Tolstoi.
Nihilistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism.
Nihilistic (a.) Of or relating to nihilism.
Nihility (n.) Nothingness; a state of being nothing.
Nihility (n.) The state of nonexistence [syn: nothingness, void, nullity, nihility].
Nikki Haley (n.) Nimrata "Nikki" Haley (née Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) [1] [2] [3] 妮基·哈利 Is the 29th and current United States Ambassador to the United Nations. [4] She served as the 116th Governor of South Carolina from January 2011 to January 2017. Before her tenure as governor Haley was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. [3]
Haley was the first female Governor of South Carolina and the second Indian American, after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal, to serve as a governor in the United States. She delivered the official Republican response to President Barack Obama's 2016 State of the Union Address on January 12, 2016. [5] In 2016 Haley was named among "The 100 Most Influential People" by Time magazine. [6] [7]
Nil (v. t.) Will not. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Nil (n. & a.) Nothing; of no account; worthless; -- a term often used for canceling, in accounts or bookkeeping. -- A. J. Ellis.
Nil, (n.) (Computers) A special value for a variable used in certain computer languages to mean no assigned value, to be distinguished from the value zero.
Nil (n.) A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo].
NIL, () No. Used in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the ?-P? convention. Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP terminology for ?false? (see also T), but NIL as a negative reply was well-established among radio hams decades before the advent of LISP. The historical connection between early hackerdom and the ham radio world was strong enough that this may have been an influence.
NIL, () New Implementation of Lisp. A language intended to be the successor of MacLisp. A large Lisp, implemente mostly in VAX assembly language. A forerunner of Common LISP.
["NIL: A Perspective", Jon L. White, MACSYMA Users'
Conf Proc, 1979].
NIL, () Network Implementation
Language. Strom & Yemini, TJWRC, IBM. Implementation of complex
networking protocols in a modular fashion.
["NIL: An Integrated Language and System for Distributed Programming", R. Strom et al, SIGPLAN Notices 18(6):73-82 (June 1983)].
NIL, () Empty list or False. In Lisp, the empty list (or "nil list") is used to represent the Boolean value False. This is possible because Lisp is not typed. True is represented by the special atom "t".
NIL, () Spoken in reply to a question, particularly one asked using the "-P" convention it means "No". Most hackers assume this derives simply from LISP, but NIL meaning "no" was well-established among radio hams decades before LISP existed.
The historical connection between early hackerdom and the ham radio world was strong enough that this may have been an influence. [{Jargon File]
Nile (n.) The great river of Egypt.
Nile bird. (Zool.) (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.]
Nile bird. (Zool.) (b) The crocodile bird.
Nile goose (Zool.), The Egyptian goose. See Note under Goose, 2.
Nile (n.) The world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization [syn: Nile, Nile River].
Nile, () Dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., "the black stream" (Isa. 23:3; Jer. 2:18) or simply "the river" (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 1:22, etc.) and the "flood of Egypt" (Amos 8:8). It consists of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the Victoria Nyanza, and the Blue Nile, which rises in the Abyssinian Mountains. These unite at the town of Khartoum, whence it pursues its course for 1,800 miles, and falls into the Mediterranean through its two branches, into which it is divided a few miles north of Cairo, the Rosetta and the Damietta branch. (See EGYPT.)
Nilgau (n.) (Zool.) see Nylghau.
Nylghau, Nylgau (n.) (Zool.) A large Asiatic antelope ({Boselaphus tragocamelus, syn. Portax tragocamelus), found in Northern India; called also the blue bull. It has short horns, a black mane, and a bunch of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown; the male is blue-grey with white markings, and the female is brownish with no horns. [Written also neelghau, nilgau, nylghai, and nylghaie.]
Syn: nilgai, nylghai, blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus.
Nilled (imp. & p. p.) of Nill.
Nilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nill.
Nill (v. t.) Not to will; to refuse; to reject. [Obs.]
Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace. -- Spenser.
Nill (v. i.) To be unwilling; to refuse to act.
The actions of the will are "velle" and "nolle," to will and nill. -- Burton.
Will he, nill he, Whether he wills it or not; usually contracted to willy-nilly.
Nill (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
Nill (n.) Scales of hot iron from the forge. -- Knight.
Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
Niloscope (n.) A Nilometer.
Nilotic (a.) Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.
Nilotic (a.) Of or relating to the Nile River or the people living near it.
Nilotic (a.) Of or relating to or constituting the Nilotic group of languages; "Nilotic syntax".
Nilotic (n.) A group of languages of East Africa belonging to the Chari-Nile group [syn: Nilotic, Nilotic language].
Nilt () Wilt not. [Obs.]
Nam (imp.) Obs. Imp. of Nim. -- Chaucer.
NAM, () Netware Application Manager (Novell, Netware, NAL)
Nim (v. t.) To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]
This canon it in his hand nam. -- Chaucer.
Nam, () Am not. [Obs.]
Nam (obs.) imp. of Nim. -- Chaucer.
NAM, () Netware Application Manager (Novell, Netware, NAL)
Nimmed (imp.) of Nim.
Nomen (p. p.) of Nim.
Nome (p. p.) of Nim.
Nim (n.) Game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table.
Nimbiferous (a.) Serving to bring clouds or stormy weather.
Nimble (a.) 敏捷的，伶俐的，精明的 Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift.
Through the mid seas the nimble pinnace sails. -- Pope.
Note: Nimble is sometimes used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, nimble-footed, nimble-pinioned, nimble-winged, etc.
Nimble Will (Bot.), A slender, branching, American grass ({Muhlenbergia diffusa), of some repute for grazing purposes in the Mississippi valley.
Syn: Agile; quick; active; brisk; lively; prompt.
Nimble (a.) Moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: {agile}, {nimble}, {quick}, {spry}].
Nimble (a.) Mentally quick; "an agile mind"; "nimble wits" [syn: {agile}, {nimble}].
Nimbleness (n.) 靈活，敏捷；聰明，機靈 The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.
Nimbleness (n.) Intelligence as revealed by quickness and alertness of mind; "nimbleness of wit and imagination" [syn: nimbleness, mental dexterity].
Nimbleness (n.) The gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble [syn: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness].
Nimbless (n.) Nimbleness. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Nimbly (adv.) In a nimble manner; with agility; with light, quick motion.
Nimbly (adv.) In a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof" [syn: agilely, nimbly].
Nimbose (a.) Cloudy; stormy; tempestuous.
Nimbi (n. pl. ) of Nimbus.
Nimbuses (n. pl. ) of Nimbus.
Nimbus (n.) (Fine Arts) 【氣】雨雲；光輪；光輝燦爛的氣氛。 A circle, or disk, or any indication of radiant light around the heads of divinities, saints, and sovereigns, upon medals, pictures, etc.; a halo. See Aureola, and Glory, n., 5.
Note: "The nimbus is of pagan origin." "As an attribute of power, the nimbus is often seen attached to the heads of evil spirits." -- Fairholl.
Nimbus (n.) (Meteor.) A rain cloud; one of the four principal varieties of clouds. See Cloud.
Compare: Cloud
Cloud (n.) 雲 [C] [U]；（塵埃，煙等）雲狀物 [C] [（+of）] A collection of visible vapor, or watery particles, suspended in the upper atmosphere.
I do set my bow in the cloud. -- Gen. ix. 13.
Note: A classification of clouds according to their chief forms was first proposed by the meteorologist Howard, and this is still substantially employed. The following varieties and subvarieties are recognized:
Cloud (n.) (a) Cirrus. This is the most elevated of all the forms of clouds; is thin, long-drawn, sometimes looking like carded wool or hair, sometimes like a brush or room, sometimes in curl-like or fleecelike patches. It is the cat's-tail of the sailor, and the mare's-tail of the landsman.
Cloud (n.) (b) Cumulus. This form appears in large masses of a hemispherical form, or nearly so, above, but flat below, one often piled above another, forming great clouds, common in the summer, and presenting the appearance of gigantic mountains crowned with snow. It often affords rain and thunder gusts.
Cloud (n.) (c) Stratus. This form appears in layers or bands extending horizontally.
Cloud (n.) (d) Nimbus. This form is characterized by its uniform gray tint and ragged edges; it covers the sky in seasons of continued rain, as in easterly storms, and is the proper rain cloud. The name is sometimes used to denote a raining cumulus, or cumulostratus.
Cloud (n.) (e) Cirro-cumulus. This form consists, like the cirrus, of thin, broken, fleecelice clouds, but the parts are more or less rounded and regulary grouped. It is popularly called mackerel sky.
Cloud
(n.) (f)
Cirro-stratus. In this form the patches of cirrus coalesce in long strata,
between cirrus and stratus.
Cloud (n.) (g) Cumulo-stratus. A form between cumulus and
stratus, often assuming at the horizon a black or bluish tint. -- Fog, cloud,
motionless, or nearly so, lying near or in contact with the earth's surface. --
Storm scud, cloud lying quite low, without form, and driven rapidly with the
wind.
Cloud (n.) A mass or volume of smoke, or flying dust, resembling vapor. "A thick cloud of incense." -- Ezek. viii. 11.
Cloud (n.) A dark vein or spot on a lighter material, as in marble; hence, a blemish or defect; as, a cloud upon one's reputation; a cloud on a title.
Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect.
Cloud (n.) A great crowd or multitude; a vast collection. "So great a cloud of witnesses." -- Heb. xii. 1.
Cloud (n.) A large, loosely-knitted scarf, worn by women about the head.
Cloud on a (or the) title (Law), A defect of title, usually superficial and capable of removal by release, decision in equity, or legislation.
To be under a cloud, To be under suspicion or in disgrace; to be in disfavor.
In the clouds, In the realm of facy and imagination; beyond reason; visionary.
Nimbus (n.) A dark grey cloud bearing rain [syn: nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud].
Nimbus (n.) An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole].
Nimbus (n.) A dark grey cloud bearing rain [syn: nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud].
Nimbus (n.) An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole].
Nimiety (n.) State of being in excess. [R.]
There is a nimiety, a too-muchness, in all Germans. -- Coleridge.
Nimiety (n.) A quantity much larger than is needed [syn: excess, surplus, surplusage, nimiety].
Nimious (a.) 過度的；過分的；極度的 Excessive; extravagant; inordinate. [Obs.]
// The author … is never nimious; there is nothing in excess -- Sydney Smith
Nimmer (n.) 小偷 A thief. [Obs.]
Nimmer (n.) (pl. -s) Thief, pilferer.
Nimrod (n.) （聖經人物）寧羅（舊約創世紀）；好獵手；獵人 Hunter.
Nimrod (n.) Idiot, jerk.
Nimrod (n.) (Old Testament) A famous hunter.
Nimrod, () Firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first who claimed to be a "mighty one in the earth." Babel was the beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Gen. 10:8-10). The "land of Nimrod" (Micah 5:6) is a designation of Assyria or of Shinar, which is a part of it.
Nimrod, () Rebellion (but probably an unknown Assyrian word)
Nimrod, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota
Population (2000): 75
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.929036 sq. miles (2.406191 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.053374 sq. miles (0.138238 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.982410 sq. miles (2.544429 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46294
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.636776 N, 94.878404 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Nimrod, MN
Nimrod
Nin () Not in. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Nincompoop (n.) 傻子；易受騙上當的人 A fool; a silly or stupid person. [Law].
An old ninnyhammer, A dotard, a nincompoop, is the best language she can afford me. -- Addison.
Nincompoop (n.) A stupid foolish person [syn: nincompoop, poop, ninny].
Nine (a.) 九的；九個的 Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles.
Nine men's morris. See Morris.
Nine points circle (Geom.), A circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides. It also passes through the three middle points of the sides of the triangle and through the three middle points of those parts of the perpendiculars that are between their common point of meeting and the angles of the triangle. The circle is hence called the nine points circle or six points circle.
Nine (n.) The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.
Nine (n.) A symbol representing nine units, as 9 or ix.
Nine (n.) A group of nine people; as, the New York nine (a baseball team).
The Nine, The nine Muses.
Nine (a.) 九；九個 Denoting a quantity consisting of one more than eight and one less than ten [syn: nine, 9, ix].
Nine (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one [syn: nine, 9, IX, niner, Nina from Carolina, ennead].
Nine (n.) A team of professional baseball players who play and travel together; "each club played six home games with teams in its own division" [syn: baseball club, ball club, club, nine].
Nine (n.) One of four playing cards in a deck with nine pips on the face [syn: nine-spot, nine].
Nine-bark (n.) (Bot.) A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, / Spiraea, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
Nine-eyes (n.) (Zool.) The lamprey.
Ninefold (a.) 九倍的（地） Nine times repeated.
Ninefold (adv.) By a factor of nine; "my investment has increased ninefold" [syn: ninefold, nine times].
Ninefold (a.) Having nine units or components [syn: nonuple, ninefold, nine-fold].
Nineholes (n. pl.) A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.
Nine-killer (n.) (Zool.) The northern butcher bird.
Compare: Butcher
Butcher (n.) [C] 肉販，肉店老板；屠夫 A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
‘Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is, the non-organ meats that are not suitable for stews and kebabs.’
Butcher (n.) A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food.
‘A pork butcher.’
Butcher (n.) A person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally.
‘A callous butcher of men.’
Butcher (n.) [North American informal ] A person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a stadium or theater.
Butcher (v. t.) 屠宰（牲口）；屠殺，殘殺 Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
‘The meat will be butchered for the local market.
Butcher (v. t.) Kill (a person or people) indiscriminately or brutally.
‘They rounded up and butchered 250 people.’
Butcher (v. t.) Ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence.
‘The film was butchered by the studio that released it.’
Ninepences (n. pl. ) of Ninepence
Ninepence (n.) （伊莉莎白一世時發行的）九便士硬幣 An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.
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