Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 5
Natural (a.) Hence: Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
Natural (a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. -- 1 Cor. ii. 14.
Natural (a.) (Math.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
Natural (a.) (Mus.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
Natural (a.) (Mus.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
Natural (a.) (Mus.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
Natural (a.) (Mus.) Neither flat nor sharp; -- of a tone.
Natural (a.) (Mus.) Changed to the pitch which is neither flat nor sharp, by appending the sign [natural]; as, A natural. -- Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Natural (a.) Existing in nature or created by the forces of nature, in contrast to production by man; not made, manufactured, or processed by humans; as, a natural ruby; a natural bridge; natural fibers; a deposit of natural calcium sulfate. Opposed to artificial, man-made, manufactured, processed and synthetic.
Natural (a.) Hence: Not processed or refined; in the same statre as that existing in nature; as, natural wood; natural foods.
Natural day, The space of twenty-four hours. -- Chaucer.
Natural fats, Natural gas, etc. See under Fat, Gas. etc.
Natural Harmony (Mus.), The harmony of the triad or common chord.
Natural history, In its broadest sense, a history or description of nature as a whole, including the sciences of botany, Zoology, geology, mineralogy, paleontology, chemistry, and physics. In recent usage the term is often restricted to the sciences of botany and Zoology collectively, and sometimes to the science of zoology alone.
Natural law, That instinctive sense of justice and of right and wrong, which is native in mankind, as distinguished from specifically revealed divine law, and formulated human law.
Natural modulation (Mus.), Transition from one key to its relative keys.
Natural order. (Nat. Hist.) See under order.
Natural person. (Law) See under person, n.
Natural philosophy, Originally, the study of nature in general; the natural sciences; in modern usage, that branch of physical science, commonly called physics, which treats of the phenomena and laws of matter and considers those effects only which are unaccompanied by any change of a chemical nature; -- contrasted with mental philosophy and moral philosophy.
Natural scale (Mus.), A scale which is written without flats or sharps.
Note: Model would be a preferable term, as less likely to mislead, the so-called artificial scales (scales represented by the use of flats and sharps) being equally natural with the so-called natural scale.
Natural science, The study of objects and phenomena existing in nature, especially biology, chemistry, physics and their interdisciplinary related sciences; natural history, in its broadest sense; -- used especially in contradistinction to social science, mathematics, philosophy, mental science or moral science.
Natural selection (Biol.), The operation of natural laws analogous, in their operation and results, to designed selection in breeding plants and animals, and resulting in the survival of the fittest; the elimination over time of species unable to compete in specific environments with other species more adapted to survival; -- the essential mechanism of evolution. The principle of natural selection is neutral with respect to the mechanism by which inheritable changes occur in organisms (most commonly thought to be due to mutation of genes and reorganization of genomes), but proposes that those forms which have become so modified as to be better adapted to the existing environment have tended to survive and leave similarly adapted descendants, while those less perfectly adapted have tended to die out through lack of fitness for the environment, thus resulting in the survival of the fittest. See Darwinism.
Natural system (Bot. & Zool.), A classification based upon real affinities, as shown in the structure of all parts of the organisms, and by their embryology.
It should be borne in mind that the natural system of botany is natural only in the constitution of its genera, tribes, orders, etc., and in its grand divisions. -- Gray.
Natural theology, or Natural religion, That part of theological science which treats of those evidences of the existence and attributes of the Supreme Being which are exhibited in nature; -- distinguished from revealed religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3.
Natural vowel, The vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir, her, etc.; -- so called as being uttered in the easiest open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel, under Neutral and Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 17.
Syn: See Native.
Natural (n.) A native; an aboriginal. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Raleigh.
Natural (n.) pl. Natural gifts, impulses, etc. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Natural (n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. "The minds of naturals." -- Locke.
Natural (n.) (Mus.) A character [natural] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Natural (n.) A person who has an innate talent that makes success in some specific endeavor, such as sports, much easier than for others; as, Pele was a natural in soccer.
Natural (a.) In accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" [ant: unnatural].
Natural (a.) Existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" [ant: artificial, unreal].
Natural (a.) Existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation" [ant: supernatural].
Natural (a.) Functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild"
Natural (a.) (Of a musical note) Being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural" [ant: flat, sharp].
Natural (a.) Unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" [syn: natural, instinctive].
Natural (a.) (Used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)].
Natural (a.) Related by blood; not adopted.
Natural (a.) Being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)].
Natural (a.) Free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural].
Natural (n.) Someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job".
Natural (n.) A notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural, cancel].
Natural (n.) (Craps) A first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake.
Natural, () An integrated 4GL from Software AG, Germany. The menu-driven version is SUPER/ NATURAL.
Natural 2 is a major upgrade to Natural 1.
Version 2.1.7 in the MVS environment (June 1995, also available for Unix).
Natural works with DB2 and various other databases, but Natural and Adabas normally go together. There are many products available in the "Natural" family, including SuperNatural, Natural for Windows, Entire Connection (enables up/ downloading and interaction with Excel) and Esperant. (1995-11-14)
Naturalism (n.) A state of nature; conformity to nature.
Naturalism (n.) (Metaph.) The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.
Naturalism (n.) The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory.
Naturalism (n.) Specifically: The principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life.
Naturalism (n.) (Philosophy) The doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.
Naturalism (n.) An artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description [syn: naturalism, realism].
Naturalist (n.) One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of plants or animals; a botanist or zoologist.
Naturalist (n.) One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. -- H. Bushnell.
Naturalist (n.) An advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms.
Naturalist (n.) A biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) [syn: naturalist, natural scientist].
Naturalistic (a.) Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
Naturalistic (a.) Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime." -- W. D. Howells.
Naturalistic (a.) Representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: naturalistic, realistic].
Naturality (n.) Nature; naturalness. [R.]
Naturalization (n.) The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
Naturalization (n.) The quality of being brought into conformity with nature [syn: naturalization, naturalisation].
Naturalization (n.) The proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship [syn: naturalization, naturalisation].
Naturalization (n.) The introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous [syn: naturalization, naturalisation].
Naturalization (n.) Changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology; "the naturalization in English of many Italian words" [syn: naturalization, naturalisation].
Naturalized (imp. & p. p.) of Naturalize.
Naturalizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Naturalize.
Naturalize (v. t.) To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
Naturalize (v. t.) To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of a native subject.
Naturalize (v. t.) To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.
Naturalize (v. t.) To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.
Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. -- Hawthorne.
Naturalize (v. i.) To become as if native.
Naturalize (v. i.) To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.
Infected by this naturalizing tendency. -- H. Bushnell.
Naturalize (v.) Make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize].
Naturalize (v.) Explain with reference to nature.
Naturalize (v.) Adopt to another place; "The stories had become naturalized into an American setting" [syn: naturalize, naturalise].
Naturalize (v.) Make more natural or lifelike [syn: naturalize, naturalise] [ant: denaturalise, denaturalize].
Naturalize (v.) Adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment; "domesticate oats"; "tame the soil" [syn: domesticate, cultivate, naturalize, naturalise, tame].
Naturally (adv.) In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.
Naturally (adv.) As might be expected; "naturally, the lawyer sent us a huge bill" [syn: naturally, of course, course] [ant: unnaturally].
Naturally (adv.) According to nature; by natural means; without artificial help; "naturally grown flowers" [ant: artificially, by artificial means, unnaturally].
Naturally (adv.) Through inherent nature; "he was naturally lazy" [syn: naturally, by nature].
Naturally (adv.) In a natural or normal manner; "speak naturally and easily" [ant: unnaturally].
Naturalness (n.) The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.
Naturalness (n.) The quality of being natural or based on natural principles; "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner" [ant: unnaturalness].
Naturalness (n.) The quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness].
Naturalness (n.) The likeness of a representation to the thing represented; "engineers strove to increase the naturalness of recorded music".
Nature (n.) The existing system of things; the universe of matter, energy, time and space; the physical world; all of creation. Contrasted with the world of mankind, with its mental and social phenomena.
But looks through nature up to nature's God. -- Pope.
When, in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bonds which have connected them with another, ans to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal Station which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to the Separation. -- Declaration of Independence Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. -- Macaulay.
Nature (n.) The personified sum and order of causes and effects; the powers which produce existing phenomena, whether in the total or in detail; the agencies which carry on the processes of creation or of being; -- often conceived of as a single and separate entity, embodying the total of all finite agencies and forces as disconnected from a creating or ordering intelligence ; as, produced by nature; the forces of nature.
I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions. -- Milton.
Nature (n.) The established or regular course of things; usual order of events; connection of cause and effect.
Nature (n.) Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artifical, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. -- Shak.
Nature (n.) The sum of qualities and attributes which make a person or thing what it is, as distinct from others; native character; inherent or essential qualities or attributes; peculiar constitution or quality of being.
Thou, therefore, whom thou only canst redeem, Their nature also to thy nature join, And be thyself man among men on earth. -- Milton.
Nature (n.) Hence: Kind, sort; character; quality.
A dispute of this nature caused mischief. -- Dryden.
Nature (n.) Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life. "My days of nature." -- Shak.
Oppressed nature sleeps. -- Shak.
Have we not seen The murdering son ascend his parent's bed, Through violated nature force his way? -- Pope.
Nature (n.) Constitution or quality of mind or character.
A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick. -- Shak.
That reverence which is due to a superior nature. -- Addison.
Good nature, Ill nature. see under Good and Ill.
In a state of nature. Naked as when born; nude.
In a state of nature. In a condition of sin; unregenerate.
In a state of nature. Untamed; uncivilized.
Nature printing, A process of printing from metallic or other plates which have received an impression, as by heavy pressure, of an object such as a leaf, lace, or the like.
Nature worship, The worship of the personified powers of nature.
To pay the debt of nature, To die.
Nature (v. t.) To endow with natural qualities. [Obs.]
He [God] which natureth every kind. -- Gower.
Nature (n.) The essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized; "it is the nature of fire to burn"; "the true nature of jealousy".
Nature (n.) A causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe; "the laws of nature"; "nature has seen to it that men are stronger than women".
Nature (n.) The natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.; "they tried to preserve nature as they found it".
Nature (n.) The complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions; "it is his nature to help others".
Nature (n.) A particular type of thing; "problems of this type are very difficult to solve"; "he's interested in trains and things of that nature"; "matters of a personal nature".
Nature (n.) See has the X nature.
Has the X nature
Nature, ()
(From Zen Buddhist koans of the form "Does an X have the Buddha-nature?") Common hacker construction for "is an X", used for humorous emphasis. "Anyone who can't even use a program with on-screen help embedded in it truly has the loser nature!" See also the X that can be Y is not the true X. [{Jargon File] (1995-01-11)
Natured (a.) Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
Natureless (a.) Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Naturism (n.) (Med.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.
Naturism (n.) Going without clothes as a social practice [syn: nudism, naturism].
Naturist (n.) One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. -- Boyle.
Naturist (n.) A person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion [syn: nudist, naturist].
Naturity (n.) The quality or state of being produced by nature. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Naturize (v. t.) To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Naufrage (n.) Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] -- acon.
Naufrage, () French mar. law. When, by the violent agitation of the waves, the impetuosity of the winds, the storm, or the lightning, a vessel is swallowed up, or so shattered that there remain only the pieces, the accident is called naufrage.
Naufrage, () It differs from echouement, which is, when the vessel, remains whole, but is grounded; or from bris, which is, when it strikes against a rock or a coast; or from sombrer, which is, the sinking of the vessel in the sea, when it is swallowed up, and which may be caused by any accident whatever. Pardes. n. 643, Vide Wreck.
Naufragous (a.) Causing shipwreck. [Obs.] -- r. Taylor.
Naught (adv.) Nothing. [Written also nought.]
Doth Job fear God for naught? -- Job i. 9.
Naught (adv.) The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
To set at naught, To treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." -- Prov. i. 25.
Naught (adv.) In no degree; not at all. -- Chaucer.
To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied. -- Fairfax.
Naught (a.) Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. -- Prov. xx. 14.
Go, get you to your house; begone, away!
All will be naught else. -- Shak.
Things naught and things indifferent. -- Hooker.
Naught (a.) Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.]
No man can be stark naught at once. -- Fuller.
Naught (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].
Naught (n.) Complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught".
Naughtily (adv.) In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely. -- Shak.
Naughtily (adv.) In a disobedient or naughty way; "he behaved badly in school"; "he mischievously looked for a chance to embarrass his sister"; "behaved naughtily when they had guests and was sent to his room" [syn: badly, mischievously, naughtily].
Naughtiness (n.) The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness.
I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. -- 1 Sam. xvii. 28.
Naughtiness (n.) An attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness, mischievousness, badness].
Naughtly (adv.) Naughtily; wrongly. [Obs.]
Because my parents naughtly brought me up. -- Mir. for Mag.
Naughty (a.) Having little or nothing. [Obs.]
[Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. -- Piers Plowman.
Naughty (a.) Worthless; bad; good for nothing. [Obs.]
The other basket had very naughty figs. -- Jer. xxiv. 2.
Naughty (a.) Hence, corrupt; wicked. [Archaic]
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. -- Shak.
Naughty (a.) Mischievous; perverse; froward; guilty of disobedient or improper conduct; as, a naughty child.
Note: This word is now seldom used except in the latter sense, as applied to children, or in sportive censure. Nauheim treatment
Naughty (a.) Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy].
Naughty (a.) Badly behaved; "a naughty boy".
Naumachy (n.) A naval battle; esp., a mock sea fight.
Naumachy (n.) (Rom. Antiq.) A show or spectacle representing a sea fight; also, a place for such exhibitions.
Naumachy (n.) A naval spectacle; a mock sea battle put on by the ancient Romans [syn: naumachy, naumachia].
Nauplii (n. pl. ) of Nauplius.
Nauplius (n.) (Zool.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.
Nauropometer (n.) (Naut.) An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.
Nauscopy (n.) (Naut.) The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.
Nausea (n.) Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Nausea (n.) The state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness].
Nausea (n.) Disgust so strong it makes you feel sick.
Nauseant (n.) (Med.) A substance which produces nausea ; an emetic.
Nauseant (n.) A medicine that induces nausea and vomiting [syn: emetic, vomit, vomitive, nauseant].
Nauseated (imp. & p. p.) of Nauseate.
Nauseating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nauseate.
Nauseate (v. i.) To become squeamish; to feel nausea; to turn away with disgust.
Nauseate (v. t.) To affect with nausea; to sicken; to cause to feel loathing or disgust.
Nauseate (v. t.) To sicken at; to reject with disgust; to loathe.
The patient nauseates and loathes wholesome foods. -- Blackmore.
Nauseate (v.) Upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach].
Nauseate (v.) Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up].
Nauseation (n.) The act of nauseating, or the state of being nauseated.
Nauseative (a.) Causing nausea; nauseous.
Nauseous (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.
Nauseous (a.) Feeling nausea; as, nauseous from the effects of chemotherapy. -- Nau"seous*ly, adv. -- Nau"seous*ness, n.
The nauseousness of such company disgusts a reasonable man. -- Dryden.
Nauseous (a.) Causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile].
Nauseous (a.) Feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish].
Nautch (n.) An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls. [India]
Syn: nauch.
Nautch (n.) An intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls [syn: nautch, nauch, nautch dance].
Nautic (a.) Nautical.
Nautical (a.) Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Syn: Naval; marine; maritime. See Naval.
Nautical almanac. See under Almanac.
Nautical distance, The length in nautical miles of the rhumb line joining any two places on the earth's surface.
Nautical mile. See under Mile.
Nautical (a.) Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen; "nautical charts"; "maritime law"; "marine insurance" [syn: nautical, maritime, marine].
Nautically (adv.) In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affairs.
Nautiform (a.) Shaped like the hull of a ship.
Nautilite (n.) (Paleon.) A fossil nautilus.
Nautiloid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell.
Nautiloid (n.) A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae.
Nautiluses (n. pl. ) of Nautilus.
Nautili (n. pl. ) of Nautilus.
Nautilus (n.) (Zool.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.
Note: The head of the animal bears numerous simple tapered arms, or tentacles, arranged in groups, but not furnished with suckers. The siphon, unlike, that of ordinary cephalopods, is not a closed tube, and is not used as a locomotive organ, but merely serves to conduct water to and from the gill cavity, which contains two pairs of gills. The animal occupies only the outer chamber of the shell; the others are filled with gas. It creeps over the bottom of the sea, not coming to the surface to swim or sail, as was formerly imagined.
Nautilus (n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.
Nautilus (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.
Nautilus (n.) A submarine that is propelled by nuclear power [syn: nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine].
Nautilus (n.) Cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells [syn: paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo].
Nautilus (n.) Cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions [syn: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, nautilus].
Navajoes (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A tribe
of Indians inhabiting
Naval (a.) Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval forces, successes, stores, etc.
Naval brigade, a body of seamen or marines organized for military service on land.
Naval officer. An officer in the navy.
Naval officer. A high officer in some United States customhouses.
Naval tactics, The science of managing or maneuvering vessels sailing in squadrons or fleets.
Syn: Nautical; marine; maritime.
Usage: Naval, Nautical. Naval is applied to vessels, or a navy, or the things which pertain to them or in which they participate; nautical, to seamen and the art of navigation. Hence we speak of a naval, as opposed to a military, engagement; naval equipments or stores, a naval triumph, a naval officer, etc., and of nautical pursuits or instruction, nautical calculations, a nautical almanac, etc.
Naval (a.) Connected with or belonging to or used in a navy; "naval history"; "naval commander"; "naval vessels".
Navals (n. pl.) Naval affairs. [Obs.]
Navarch (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The commander of a fleet. -- Mitford.
Navarchy (n.) Nautical skill or experience. [Obs.] -- Sir W. Petty.
Navarrese (a.) Of or pertaining to Navarre.
Navarrese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Navarre; the people of Navarre.
Nave (n.) The block in the center of a wheel, from which the spokes radiate, and through which the axle passes; -- called also hub or hob.
Nave (n.) The navel. [Obs.] --hak.
Nave (n.) (Arch.) The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances, or, if there are no transepts, from the choir to the principal entrance, but not including the aisles.
Nave (n.) The central area of a church.
Navel (n.) (Anat.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus. See Umbilicus.
Navel (n.) The central part or point of anything; the middle.
Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. -- Milton.
Navel (n.) (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
Navel gall, () A bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. -- Johnson.
Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.
Navel (n.) A scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton" [syn: navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus].
Navel (n.) The center point or middle of something; "the Incas believed that Cuzco was the navel of the universe" [syn: navel, navel point].