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Nearness
() The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
Nearsighted
() Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted.
Nearsightedness
() See Myopic, and Myopia.
Neat
() Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
Neat
() Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
Neat
() Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
Neat
() Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
Neat
() Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
Neat
() Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
Neat
() With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]
Neatherd
() A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd.
Neathouse
() A building for the shelter of neat cattle.
Neatify
() To make neat.
Neatly
() In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.
neatness
() The state or quality of being neat.
Neatress
() A woman who takes care of cattle.
Neb
() The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen.
Nebalia
() A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.)
Neb-neb
() Same as Bablh.
Nebulae
() of Nebula
Nebula
() A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.
Nebula
() A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea.
Nebula
() A cloudy appearance in the urine.
Nebular
() Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula.
Nebulated
() Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.
nebulation
() The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark.
Nebule
() A little cloud; a cloud.
Nebule
() Alt. of Nebuly
Nebuly
() Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.
Nebulization
() The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.
Nebulize
() To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.
Nebulizer
() An atomizer.
Nebulose
() Nebulous; cloudy.
Nebulosity
() The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness.
Nebulosity
() The stuff of which a nebula is formed.
Nebulosity
() A nebula.
Nebulous
() Cloudy; hazy; misty.
Nebulous
() Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.
Nebuly
() A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE
Necessarian
() An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.
Necessarian
() Of or pertaining to necessarianism.
Necessarianism
() The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism.
Necessarily
() In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.
Necessariness
() The quality of being necessary.
Necessary
() Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
Necessary
() Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
Necessary
() Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
Necessaries
() of Necessary
Necessary
() A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
Necessary
() A privy; a water-closet.
