Nativeness () The quality or state of being native.

Nativism () The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

Nativism () The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

Nativist () An advocate of nativism.

Nativistic () Relating to nativism.

Nativies () of Nativity

Nativity () The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.

Nativity () A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.

Nativity () A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.

Natka () A species of shrike.

Natrium () The technical name for sodium.

Natrolite () A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.

Natron () Native sodium carbonate.

Natter () To find fault; to be peevish.

Natterjack () A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.

Natty () Neat; tidy; spruce.

Natural () Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.

Natural () Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.

Natural () Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.

Natural () Conformed to truth or reality

Natural () Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.

Natural () Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.

Natural () Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.

Natural () Connected by the ties of consanguinity.

Natural () Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.

Natural () 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.

Natural () 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 () Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.

Natural () Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.

Natural () Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.

Natural () A native; an aboriginal.

Natural () Natural gifts, impulses, etc.

Natural () One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.

Natural () A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.

Naturalism () A state of nature; conformity to nature.

Naturalism () 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.

Naturalist () One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Naturalist () One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.

Naturalistic () Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Naturalistic () Closely resembling nature; realistic.

Naturality () Nature; naturalness.

Naturalization () 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.

Naturalized () of Naturalize

Naturalizing () of Naturalize

Naturalize () To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

Naturalize () 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 () To receive or adopt as native, natural, or vernacular; to make one's own; as, to naturalize foreign words.

Naturalize () To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions.

Naturalize () To become as if native.

Naturalize () To explain phenomena by natural agencies or laws, to the exclusion of the supernatural.

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