Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 30
Nurse (n.) (Zool.) A peculiar larva of certain trematodes which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. See Cercaria, and Redia.
Nurse (n.) (Zool.) Either one of the nurse sharks.
Nurse shark. (Zool.) (a) A large arctic shark ({Somniosus microcephalus), having small teeth and feeble jaws; -- called also sleeper shark, and ground shark.
Nurse shark. (Zool.) (b) A large shark ({Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins.
To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, To send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse.
Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nurse, and Dry nurse, in the Vocabulary.
Nursed (imp. & p. p.) of Nurse.
Nursing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurse.
Nurse (v. t.) To nourish; to cherish; to foster; as;
Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.
Nurse (v. t.) To take care of or tend, as a sick person or an invalid; to attend upon.
Sons wont to nurse their parents in old age. -- Milton.
Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. -- Dryden.
Nurse (v. t.) To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. "To nurse the saplings tall." -- Milton.
By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? -- Locke.
Nurse (v. t.) To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources.
Nurse (v. t.) To caress; to fondle, as a nurse does. -- A. Trollope.
To nurse billiard balls, To strike them gently and so as to keep them in good position during a series of caroms.
Compare: Redia
Redia (n.; pl. Redias) (Zool.) A kind of larva, or nurse, which is prroduced within the sporocyst of certain trematodes by asexual generation. It inturn produces, in the same way, either another generation of rediae, or else cercariae within its own body. Called also proscolex, and nurse. See Illustration in Appendix.
Nurse (n.) One skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician).
Nurse (n.) A woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny, nursemaid, nurse].
Nurse (v.) Try to cure by special care of treatment, of an illness or injury; "He nursed his cold with Chinese herbs."
Nurse (v.) Maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment" [syn: harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse].
Nurse (v.) Serve as a nurse; care for sick or handicapped people.
Nurse (v.) Treat carefully; "He nursed his injured back by lying in bed several hours every afternoon"; "He nursed the flowers in his garden and fertilized them regularly."
Nurse (v.) Give suck to; "The wetnurse suckled the infant"; "You cannot nurse your baby in public in some places" [syn: breastfeed, suckle, suck, nurse, wet-nurse, lactate, give suck] [ant: bottlefeed].
Nursehound (n.) (Zool.) See Houndfish.
Nursemaid (n.) A girl or woman employed to attend and care for children.
Nursemaid (n.) A woman who is the custodian of children [syn: nanny, nursemaid, nurse].
Nursepond (n.) A pond where fish are fed. -- Walton.
Nurser (n.) One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
Nurser (n.) A person who treats something carefully; "a great nurser of pennies."
Nurseries (n. pl. ) of Nursery.
Nursery (n.) The act of nursing. [Obs.] "Her kind nursery." -- Shak.
Nursery (n.) The place where nursing is carried on; as:
Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children.
Nursery (n.) A place where young trees, shrubs, vines, etc., are propagated for the purpose of transplanting; a plantation of young trees.
Nursery (n.) The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted.
Nursery (n.) That which forms and educates; as, commerce is the nursery of seamen.
Nursery (n.) That which is nursed.
Nurserymen (n. pl. ) of Nurseryman.
Nurseryman (n.) One who cultivates or keeps a nursery, or place for rearing trees, etc.
Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.
Nursling (n.) One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.
Nurstle (v. t.) To nurse. See Noursle.
Nurture (n.) The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training.
Nurture (n.) That which nourishes; food; diet.
Nurtured (imp. & p. p.) of Nurture.
Nurturing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nurture.
Nurture (v. t.) To feed; to nourish.
Nurture (v. t.) To educate; to bring or train up.
Nustle (v. t.) To fondle; to cherish.
Nut (n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
Nut (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
Nut (n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
Nut (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
Nutted (imp. & p. p.) of Nut.
Nutting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nut.
Nut (v. i.) To gather nuts.
Nutant (a.) Nodding; having the top bent downward.
Nutation (n.) The act of nodding.
So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads. -- Pope.
Nutation (n.) (Astron.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.
Nutation (n.) (Bot.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.
Nutation (n.) (Bot.) Circumnutation.
Nutation (n.) Uncontrolled nodding.
Nutbreaker (n.) (Zool.) The European nuthatch.
Nutbreaker (n.) (Zool.) The nutcracker.
Nut-brown (a.) Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." -- Milton.
Compare: Brunet
Brunet, Brunette (a.) Being or having dark-colored skin and hair; contrasted with blond. [Narrower terms: adust, sunburned burned brown by the sun; black, brown; black-haired, dark-haired; browned, suntanned, tanned; grizzled, roan; nutbrown]. brunet
Nutcracker (n.) An instrument for cracking nuts.
Nutcracker (n.) (Zool.) A European bird ({Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.
Nutcracker (n.) The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker ({Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.
Nutcracker (n.) A compound lever used to crack nuts open.
Nutcracker (n.) Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects [syn: nuthatch, nutcracker].
Nutcracker (n.) Speckled birds that feed on nuts.
Nutgall (n.) A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut. nutgrass
Nuthatch (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species ({Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), and others, are American.
Nuthatch (n.) Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects [syn: nuthatch, nutcracker].
Nuthook (n.) A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.
Nuthook (n.) A thief who steals by means of a hook; also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors. -- Shak.
Nutjobber (n.) (Zool.) The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]
Nutlet (n.) (Bot.) A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.
Nutlet (n.) A small nut.
Nutmeg (n.) (Bot.) The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree ({Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Isla nds, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.
Note: This fruit is a nearly spherical drupe, of the size of a pear, of a yellowish color without and almost white within. This opens into two nearly equal longitudinal valves, inclosing the nut surrounded by its aril, which is mace. The nutmeg is an aromatic, very grateful to the taste and smell, and much used in cookery. Other species of Myristica yield nutmegs of inferior quality.
American nutmeg, Calabash nutmeg, or Jamaica nutmeg, the fruit of a tropical shrub ({Monodora Myristica). It is about the size of an orange, and contains many aromatic seeds imbedded in pulp.
Brazilian nutmeg, The fruit of a lauraceous tree, Cryptocarya moschata.
California nutmeg, A tree of the Yew family ({Torreya Californica), growing in the Western United States, and having a seed which resembles a nutmeg in appearance, but is strongly impregnated with turpentine.
Clove nutmeg, The Ravensara aromatica, a lauraceous tree of Madagascar. The foliage is used as a spice, but the seed is acrid and caustic.
Jamaica nutmeg. See American nutmeg (above).
Nutmeg bird (Zool.),An Indian finch ({Munia punctularia"> Nutmeg bird (Zool.), an Indian finch ({Munia punctularia).
Nutmeg butter, A solid oil extracted from the nutmeg by expression.
Nutmeg flower (Bot.), A ranunculaceous herb ({Nigella sativa) with small black aromatic seeds, which are used medicinally and for excluding moths from furs and clothing.
Nutmeg liver (Med.), A name applied to the liver, when, as the result of heart or lung disease, it undergoes congestion and pigmentation about the central veins of its lobules, giving it an appearance resembling that of a nutmeg.
Nutmeg melon (Bot.), A small variety of muskmelon of a rich flavor.
Nutmeg pigeon (Zool.), Any one of several species of pigeons of the genus Myristicivora, native of the East Indies and Australia. The color is usually white, or cream-white, with black on the wings and tail.
Nutmeg wood (Bot.), The wood of the Palmyra palm.
Peruvian nutmeg, The aromatic seed of a South American tree ({Laurelia sempervirens).
Plume nutmeg (Bot.), A spicy tree of Australia ({Atherosperma moschata).
Nutmeg (n.) East Indian tree widely cultivated in the tropics for its aromatic seed; source of two spices: nutmeg and mace [syn: nutmeg, nutmeg tree, Myristica fragrans].
Nutmeg (n.) Hard aromatic seed of the nutmeg tree used as spice when grated or ground.
Nutmegged (a.) Seasoned with nutmeg.
Nutpecker (n.) (Zool.) The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]
Nutria (n.) The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.
Compare: Coypu
Coypu (n.) (Zool.) A South American rodent ({Myopotamus coypus), allied to the beaver. It produces a valuable fur called nutria. [Written also coypou.].
Nutria (n.) Aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus].
Nutrication (n.) The act or manner of feeding. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Nutrient (a.) Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth.
Nutrient (n.) Any substance which has nutritious qualities, i. e., which nourishes or promotes growth ; a nutriment.
Nutrient (n.) Specifically: (Microbiology) A substance added to the growth medium of a microorganism to promote growth.
Nutrient (a.) Of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive].
Nutrient (n.) Any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue [syn: food, nutrient].
Nutrient (n.) Any substance (such as a chemical element or inorganic compound) that can be taken in by a green plant and used in organic synthesis.
Nutriment (n.) That which nourishes; anything which promotes growth and repairs the natural waste of animal or vegetable life; food; aliment.
The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. -- South.
Nutriment (n.) That which promotes development or growth.
Is not virtue in mankind The nutriment that feeds the mind? -- Swift.
Nutriment (n.) A source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals].
Nutrimental (a.) Nutritious.
Nutritial (a.) Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Nutrition (n.) (Physiol.) In the broadest sense, a process or series of processes by which the living organism as a whole (or its component parts or organs) is maintained in its normal condition of life and growth.
Note: In this wide sense it comprehends digestion, absorption, circulation, assimilation, etc., in fact all of the steps by which the nutritive matter of the food is fitted for incorporation with the different tissues, and the changes which it undergoes after its assimilation, prior to its excretion. See Metabolism.
Nutrition (n.) (Physiol.) In a more limited sense, the process by which the living tissues take up, from the blood, matters necessary either for their repair or for the performance of their healthy functions.
Nutrition (n.) That which nourishes; nutriment.
Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. -- Pope.
Nutrition (n.) (Physiology) The organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance.
Nutrition (n.) A source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals].
Nutrition (n.) The scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans).
Nutrition (n.) [ U ] (C1) The substances that you take into your body as food and the way that they influence your health.
// Good nutrition is essential if patients are to make a quick recovery.
// Improvements in nutrition.
Nutrition (n.) The process of taking in and using food, or the scientific study of this.
// She's a professor of nutrition at Columbia University.
Nutritional (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.
Nutritional (a.) Of or relating to or providing nutrition; "nutritional information" [syn: nutritional, nutritionary].
Nutritious (a.) Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.
Nutritious (a.) Of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive].
Nutritive (a.) Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.
Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma.
Nutritive polyp (Zool.), Any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity. -- Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. -- Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.
Nutritive (a.) Of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive].
Nutriture (n.) Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] -- Harvey.
Nuts (a.) 熱中的,，發狂的，瘋的 Crazy; loony; insane; batty; -- used in a predicate position, ususually in phrases such as to go nuts, went nuts, are you nuts? [slang]
Nuts (interj.) An expression of disapproval, defiance, or displeasure, as in: "Ah, nuts! My knife just broke." [slang]
Nuts (a.) Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: {balmy}, {barmy}, {bats}, {batty}, {bonkers}, {buggy}, {cracked} {crackers}, {daft}, {dotty}, {fruity}, {haywire}, {kooky}, {kookie}, {loco}, {loony}, {loopy}, {nuts}, {nutty}, {round the bend}, {around the bend}, {wacky}, {whacky}].
Nutshell (n.) The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
Nutshell (n.) Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
Nutshell (n.) (Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
In a nutshell, () In a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell.
To be in a nutshell or To lie in a nutshell, () To be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. "The remedy lay in a nutshell." -- Macaulay.
Nutshell (n.) The shell around the kernel of a nut.
Nutter (n.) A gatherer of nuts.
Nutter (n.) A person who is regarded as eccentric or mad [syn: nutter, wacko, whacko].
Nutting (n.) The act of gathering nuts.
Nutty (a.) Abounding in nuts.
Nutty (a.) Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.
Nutty (a.) Crazy; insane; loony; batty; nuts. [slang]
Nutty (a.) Having the flavor of nuts; "a nutty sherry" [syn: nutty, nutlike].
Nutty (a.) Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky].
Nux vomica () The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.
Nux vomica (n.) A medicine made from the seeds of an Asiatic tree; contains strychnine and brucine; formerly used as a stimulant.
Nuzzied (imp. & p. p.) of Nuzzle.
Nuzzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nuzzle.
Nuzzle (v. t.) To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.]
The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. -- Milton.
Nuzzle (v. t.) To nestle; to house, as in a nest.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.
And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. -- Shak.
He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. -- Arbuthnot.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To go with head poised like a swine, with nose down.
Sir Roger shook his ears, and nuzzled along. -- Arbuthnot.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom; to nestle.
Nuzzle (v. i.) To loiter; to idle. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Compare: Noursle
Noursle (v. t.) To nurse; to
rear; to bring up. [Obs.] [Written also nosel, nousel, nousle, nowsle, nusle,
nuzzle, etc.]
She noursled him till years he raught. -- Spenser.
Nuzzle (v.) Move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close].
Nuzzle (v.) Rub noses [syn: nuzzle, nose].
Nuzzle (v.) Dig out with the snout; "the pig nuzzled the truffle."
Ny () Not I; nor I. [Obs.] Ny
Ny (a. & adv.) Alt. of Nye.
Nye (a. & adv.) Nigh. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
NY (n.) A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: New York, New York State, Empire State, NY].
Nye (n.) A brood or flock of pheasants.
Nye -- U.S. County in Nevada
Population (2000): 32485
Housing Units (2000): 15934
Land area (2000): 18146.661884 sq. miles (46999.636520 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 12.065561 sq. miles (31.249657 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 18158.727445 sq. miles (47030.886177 sq. km)
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 37.895867 N, 116.564187 W
Headwords:
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Nyas (n.) See Nias.
Nyctalopia (n.) (Med.) A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.
Nyctalopia (n.) (Med.) See Moonblink.
Note: Some writers (as Quain) use the word in the opposite sense, night blindness. See Hemeralopia.
Compare: Moonblink
Moonblink (n.) A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; -- sometimes called nyctalopia.
Nyctalopia (n.) Inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder [syn: nyctalopia, night blindness, moon blindness].
Nyctalops (n.) One afflicted with nyctalopia.
Nyctalopy (n.) Same as Nyctalopia.