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niere
() One who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.
niere
() A receptacle for rags or shreds.
niere
() A movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers.
Naleadministration
() Maladministration.
Neyne
() Same as Meine.
Nymph/
() of Nympha
Nympha
() Same as Nymph, 3.
Nympha
() Two folds of mucous membrane, within the labia, at the opening of the vulva.
Nymphaea
() A genus of aquatic plants having showy flowers (white, blue, pink, or yellow, often fragrant), including the white water lily and the Egyptia lotus.
Nymphal
() Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.
Nymphales
() An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.
Nymphean
() Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave.
Nymphet
() A little or young nymph.
Nymphic
() Alt. of Nymphical
Nymphical
() Of or pertaining to nymphs.
Nymphiparous
() Producing pupas or nymphs.
Nymphish
() Relating to nymphs; ladylike.
Nymphlike
() Alt. of Nymphly
Nymphly
() Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
Nympholepsy
() A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy.
Nympholeptic
() Under the influence of nympholepsy; ecstatic; frenzied.
Nymphomania
() Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
Nymphomany
() Same as Nymphomania.
Nymphotomy
() Excision of the nymphae.
Nys
() Is not. See Nis.
N
() A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.
Na
() No, not. See No.
Nab
() The summit of an eminence.
Nab
() The cock of a gunlock.
Nab
() The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
Nabbed
() of Nab
Nabbing
() of Nab
Nab
() To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.
Nabit
() Pulverized sugar candy.
Nabk
() The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.
Nabob
() A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
Nabob
() One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth.
Nacarat
() A pale red color, with a cast of orange.
Nacarat
() Fine linen or crape dyed of this color.
Nacker
() See Nacre.
Nacre
() A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
Nacreous
() Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.
Nad
() Alt. of Nadde
Nadde
() Had not.
Nadder
() An adder.
Nadir
() That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
Nadir
() The lowest point; the time of greatest depression.
Naenia
() See Nenia.
Naeve
() A naevus.
Naevoid
() Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.