Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 8
Necroscopic (a.) Alt. of Necroscopical.
Necroscopical (a.) Or or relating to post-mortem examinations.
Necrose (v. t. & i.) (Med.) To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis. -- Quain.
Necrose (v.) Undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate].
Necrosed (a.) (Med.) Affected by necrosis; dead; as, a necrosed bone. -- Dunglison.
Necrosis (n.) (Med.) The pathologic death of part of a tissue due to irreversible damage. Contrast to necrobiosis, which is a normal death of cells in a tissue. Formerly, applied primarily to death of bone tissue.
Necrosis (n.) (Bot.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.
Necrosis (n.) The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) [syn: necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus].
Necrotic (a.) (Med.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.
Necrotic (a.) Relating to or affected by necrosis; "necrotic tissue".
Nectar (n.) (Myth. & Poetic) The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
Nectar (n.) (Bot.) A sweetish secretion of blossoms from which bees make honey.
Nectar (n.) A sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators.
Nectar (n.) Fruit juice especially when undiluted.
Nectar (n.) (Classical mythology) The food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal [syn: ambrosia, nectar].
Nectar, (n.) A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her.
Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. J.G.
Nectar, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 372
Housing Units (2000): 158
Land area (2000): 1.816359 sq. miles (4.704348 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.013850 sq. miles (0.035872 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.830209 sq. miles (4.740220 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53448
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 33.969124 N, 86.636256 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Nectar, AL
Nectar
Nectareal (a.) Nectareous.
Nectareal (a.) (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a nectary.
Nectarean (a.) Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. "nectarean juice." -- Talfourd.
Nectared (a.) Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. -- Milton.
Nectareous (a.) Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean. -- Pope.
-- Nec*ta"re*ous*ly, adv. -- Nec*ta"re*ous*ness, n.
Nectarial (a.) Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
Nectaried (a.) Having a nectary.
Nectariferous (a.) (Bot.) Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.
Nectariferous (a.) Possessing nectaries.
Nectarine (a.) Nectareous. [R.] -- Milton.
Nectarine (n.) (Bot.) A smooth-skinned variety of peach.
Spanish nectarine, The plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum.
It is made into a sweet conserve which is largely exported from Cuba.
Nectarine (n.) Variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh [syn: nectarine, nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina].
Nectarine (n.) A variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin.
Nectarized (imp. & p. p.) of Nectarize.
Nectarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nectarize.
Nectarize (v. t.) To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. [Obs.] -- Cockeram.
Nectarous (a.) Nectareous. -- Milton.
Nectarous (a.) Extremely pleasing to the taste; sweet and fragrant; "a nectarous drink"; "ambrosial food" [syn: ambrosial, ambrosian, nectarous].
Nectaries (n. pl. ) of Nectary.
Nectary (n.) (Bot.) That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
Nectary (n.) A gland (often a protuberance or depression) that secretes nectar [syn: nectary, honey gland].
Nectocalyces (n. pl. ) of Nectocalyx.
Nectocalyx (n.) (Zool.) The swimming bell or umbrella of a jellyfish of medusa.
Nectocalyx (n.) (Zool.) One of the zooids of certain Siphonophora, having somewhat the form, and the essential structure, of the bell of a jellyfish, and acting as a swimming organ. Nectosac
Nectosac (n.) Alt. of Nectosack
Nectosack (n.) (Zool.) The cavity of a nectocalyx.
Nectostem (n.) (Zool.) That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.
Nedder (n.) (Zool.) An adder. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Chaucer.
Neddies (n. pl. ) of Neddy.
Neddy (n.) (Zool.) A pet name for a donkey.
Nee (p. p., fem.) Born; -- A term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Stael, nee Necker.
Nee (a.) (Meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman; "Hillary Clinton nee Rodham".
Need (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
And the city had no need of the sun. -- Rev. xxi. 23.
I have no need to beg. -- Shak.
Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. -- Jer. Taylor.
Need (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. -- Chaucer.
Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. -- Shak.
Need (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Need (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury.
Usage: Need, Necessity. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.
Needed (imp. & p. p.) of Need.
Needing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Need.
Need (v. t.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. -- Milton.
Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. "And the lender need not fear he shall be injured." -- Anacharsis (Trans. ).
Need (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary. -- Chaucer.
When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. -- Locke.
Need (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Need (n.) A condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" [syn: need, demand].
Need (n.) Anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [syn: need, want].
Need (n.) The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" [syn: motivation, motive, need].
Need (n.) A state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization].
Need (v.) Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" [syn: necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: eliminate, obviate, rid of].
Need (v.) Have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require].
Need (v.) Have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money".
Needer (n.) One who needs anything. -- Shak.
Needer (n.) A person who wants or needs something; "an owner of many things and needer of none" [syn: wanter, needer].
Needful (a.) Full of need; in need or want; needy; distressing. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
The needful time of trouble. -- Bk. of Com. Prayer.
Needful (a.) Necessary for supply or relief; requisite.
All things needful for defense abound. -- Dryden. -- Need"ful*ly, adv. -- Need"ful*ness, n.
Needful (a.) Necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: needed, needful, required, requisite].
Needily (adv.) In a needy condition or manner; necessarily. -- Chaucer.
Neediness (n.) The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
Neediness (n.) A state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want, deprivation, neediness].
Neediness (n.) The quality of needing attention and affection and reassurance to a marked degree; "he recognized her neediness but had no time to respond to it".
Needle (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. -- Chaucer.
Note: In some needles (as for sewing machines) the eye is at the pointed end, but in ordinary needles it is at the blunt end.
Needle (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic.
Needle (n.) A slender rod or wire used in knitting; a knitting needle; also, a hooked instrument which carries the thread or twine, and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.
Needle (n.) (Bot.) One of the needle-shaped secondary leaves of pine trees. See Pinus.
Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc.
Needle (n.) A hypodermic needle; a syringe fitted with a hypodermic needle, used for injecting fluids into the body. [Informal]
Needle (n.) An injection of medicine from a hypodermic needle; a shot.
Dipping needle. See under Dipping.
Needle bar, The reciprocating bar to which the needle of a sewing machine is attached.
Needle beam (Arch.), In shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part.
Needle furze (Bot.), A prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin ({Genista Anglica).
Needle gun, A firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. [archaic]
Needle loom (Weaving), A loom in which the weft thread is carried through the shed by a long eye-pointed needle instead of by a shuttle.
Needle ore (Min.), Acicular bismuth; a sulphide of bismuth, lead, and copper occuring in acicular crystals; -- called also aikinite.
Needle shell (Zool.), A sea urchin.
Needle spar (Min.), Aragonite.
Needle telegraph, A telegraph in which the signals are given by the deflections of a magnetic needle to the right or to the left of a certain position.
Sea needle (Zool.), The garfish.
Needle (v. t.) To form in the shape of a needle; as, to needle crystals.
Needle (v. t.) To tease (a person), especially repeatedly.
Needle (v. t.) To prod or goad (someone) into action by teasing or daring.
Needle (v. i.) To form needles; to crystallize in the form of needles.
Compare: Stylus
Stylus (n.) [L. stylus, or better stilus.] An instrument for writing. See Style, n., 1.
Stylus (n.) That needle-shaped part at the tip of the playing arm of phonograph which sits in the groove of a phonograph record while it is turning, to detect the undulations in the phonograph groove and convert them into vibrations which are transmitted to a system (since 1920 electronic) which converts the signal into sound; also called needle.
The stylus is frequently composed of a hard metal or of diamond.
Stylus (n.) The needle-like device used to cut the grooves which record the sound on the original disc during recording of a phonograph record; it is moved by the vibrations given to the diaphragm by a sound, and produces the indented record.
Stylus (n.) (Computers) A pen-shaped pointing device used to specify the cursor position on a graphics tablet. Stymie
Needle (n.) The leaf of a conifer [syn: acerate leaf, needle].
Needle (n.) A slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument.
Needle (n.) A sharp pointed implement (usually steel).
Needle (n.) A stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record [syn: phonograph needle, needle].
Needle (v.) Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" [syn: needle, goad].
Needle (v.) Prick with a needle.
Needle, () Used only in the proverb, "to pass through a needle's eye" (Matt. 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the "eye of a needle" in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Ex. 28:39; 26:36; Judg. 5:30).
Needlebook (n.) A book-shaped needlecase, having leaves of cloth into which the needles are stuck.
Needlecase (n.) A case to keep needles.
Compare: Garfish
Garfish (n.) (Zool.) (a) A European marine fish ({Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.
Garfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) One of several species of similar fishes of the genus Tylosurus,+of+which+one+species+({T.+marinus">Tylosurus, of which one species ({T. marinus) is common on the Atlantic coast. T. Caribb[ae]us, a very large species, and T. crassus, are more southern; -- called also needlefish. Many of the common names of the European garfish are also applied to the American species.
Needlefish (n.) (Zool.) The European great pipefich ({Siphostoma, or Syngnathus, acus); -- called also earl, and tanglefish.
Needlefish (n.) (Zool.) The garfish.
Needlefish (n.) Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish].
Needlefish (n.) Fish with long tubular snout and slim body covered with bony plates [syn: pipefish, needlefish].
Needlefuls (n. pl. ) Of needleful.
Needleful (n.) As much thread as is used in a needle at one time.
Needle-pointed (a.) Pointed as needles.
Needler (n.) One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. -- Piers Plowman.
Needless (a.) Having no need. [Obs.]
Weeping into the needless stream. -- Shak.
Needless (a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
Needless (a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless. "Needless jealousy." -- Shak. -- Need"less*ly, adv. -- Need"less*ness, n.
Needless (a.) Unnecessary and unwarranted; "a strikers' tent camp...was burned with needless loss of life" [syn: gratuitous, needless, uncalled-for].
Needlestone (n.) (Min.) Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.
Needlewomen (n. pl. ) of Needlewoman.
Needlewoman (n.) A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
Needlewoman (n.) Someone who makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress].
Needlework (n.) Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery, crocheting, quilting, or tapestry, etc.; also, the art, process, or occupation of creating objects with needles.
Syn: needlecraft.
Needlework (n.) The combination of timber and plaster making the outside framework of some houses.
Needlework (n.) A creation created or assembled by needle and thread [syn: needlework, needlecraft].
Needlework (n.) Work (such as sewing or embroidery) that is done with a needle [syn: needlework, needlecraft].
Needly (a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard. -- R. D. Blackmore.
Needly (adv.) Necessarily; of necessity. [Obs.] -- hak.
Needment (n.) Something needed or wanted.
Needment (n.) pl. Outfit; necessary luggage. [Archaic] -- Spenser.
Carrying each his needments. -- Wordsworth.
Needs (adv.) Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need.
A man must needs love mauger his head. -- Chaucer.
And he must needs go through Samaria. -- John iv. 4.
He would needs know the cause of his repulse. -- Sir J. Davies.
Needs (adv.) In such a manner as could not be otherwise; "it is necessarily so"; "we must needs by objective" [syn: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity, needs].
Needscost (adv.) Of necessity. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Needsly (adv.) Of necessity. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Needy (a.) Distressed by want of the means of living; very por; indigent; necessitous.
Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. -- Deut. xv. 11.
Spare the blushes of needy merit. -- Dr. T. Dwight.
Needy (a.) Necessary; requiste. [Obs.]
Corn to make your needy bread. -- Shak. Neeld
Needy (a.) Poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken].
Needy (a.) Demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree.
Needy (n.) Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy".
Neeld (n.) Alt. of Neele.
Neele (n.) A needle. [Obs.] -- Shak.
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.
Neelghau (n.) (Zool.) See Nylghau.
Neem tree () (Bot.) An Asiatic name for Melia Azadirachta, and Melia Azedarach. See Margosa.
Neem tree (n.) Large semi-evergreen tree of the East Indies; trunk exudes a tenacious gum; bitter bark used as a tonic; seeds yield an aromatic oil; sometimes placed in genus Melia [syn: neem, neem tree, nim tree, margosa, arishth, Azadirachta indica, Melia Azadirachta].
Neer (adv. & a.) Nearer. [Obs.] [Written also neer, ner.] -- Chaucer.
Never the neer, Never the nearer; no nearer. [Obs.]
Neer (adv. & a.) Nearer. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ne'er (adv.) A contraction of Never.
Neesed (imp. & p. p.) of Neese.
Neesing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Neese.
Neese (v. i.) To sneeze. [Obs.] [Written also neeze.]
Neesing (n.) Sneezing. [Obs.] "By his neesings a light doth shine." -- Job xli. 18.
Ne exeat () (Law) A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. --Kent.
Nef (n.) The nave of a church. -- Addison. Nefand
Nefand (a.) Alt. of Nefandous.
Nefandous (a.) Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. "Nefand adominations." --Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." -- Cotton Mather.
Nefarious (a.) Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.
Syn: Iniquitous; detestable; horrible; heinious; atrocious; infamous; impious. See Iniquitous. -- Ne*fa"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Ne*fa"ri*ous*ness, n.
Nefarious (a.) Extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous].
Nefasch (n.) (Zool.) Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.
Nefast (a.) Wicked. [R.]
Negation (n.) 否定；反；負；非 The act of denying; assertion of the nonreality or untruthfulness of anything; declaration that something is not, or has not been, or will not be; denial; -- the opposite of affirmation.
Our assertions and negations should be yea and nay. -- Rogers.
Negation (n.) (Logic) Description or definition by denial, exclusion, or exception; statement of what a thing is not, or has not, from which may be inferred what it is or has.
Negation (n.) A negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statement.
Negation (n.) The speech act of negating.
Negation (n.) (Logic) A proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is false.
Negation. () Denial. Two negations are construed to mean one affirmation. Dig. 50, 16, 137.