Webster's Dictionary 1828

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NOXIOUSLY

NOX'IOUSLY, adverb Hurtfully; perniciously.

839

NOXIOUSNESS

NOX'IOUSNESS, noun1. Hurtfulness; the quality that injures, impairs or destroys; insalubrity; as the noxiousness of foul air.2. The quality that corrupts or perverts; as the nox...

840

NOYAU

NOYAU, noun A rich cordial.

841

NOZLE

NOZ'LE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.

842

NOZZLE

NOZ'ZLE, noun [from nose.] The nose; the extremity of any thing; the snout.

843

NUBBLE

NUB'BLE, verb transitive [for knubble, from knob, the fist.] To beat or bruise with the fist. [Not used.]

844

NUBIFEROUS

NUBIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin a cloud or fog, and to produce.] Brining or producing clouds.

845

NUBILE

NU'BILE, adjective [Latin to marry.] Marriageable; of an age suitable for marriage.

846

NUBILOUS

NU'BILOUS, adjective Cloudy.

847

NUCIFEROUS

NUCIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin nut and to bear.] Bearing or producing nuts.

848

NUCLEUS

NU'CLEUS, noun [Latin a nut.]1. Properly, the kernel of a nut; but in usage, any body about which matter is collected.2. The body of a comet, called also its head, which appears...

849

NUDATION

NUDA'TION, noun [Latin to make bare.] The act of stripping or making bare or naked.

850

NUDE

NUDE, adjective1. Bare.2. In law, void; of no force.

851

NUDITY

NU'DITY, noun1. Nakedness.2. Nudities, in the plural, naked parts which decency requires to be concealed.3. In painting and sculpture, the naked parts of the human figure, or pa...

852

NUGACITY

NUGAC'ITY, noun [Latin trifles.] Futility; trifling talk or behavior.

853

NUGATION

NUGA'TION, noun [Latin to trifle.] The act or practice of trifling. [Little used.]

854

NUGATORY

NU'GATORY, adjective1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant.2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. The laws are sometimes rendered nugatory by inexecution. Any agreement may...

855

NUISANCE

NU'ISANCE, noun [Latin to annoy. Blackstone writes nusance, and it is desirable that his example may be followed.]1. That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which ...

856

NULLIFIDIAN

NULLIFID'IAN, adjective [Latin none, and faith.] Of no faith; of no religion or honesty. [Not used.]

857

NULLIFIED

NUL'LIFIED, participle passive Made void.

858

NULLIFY

NUL'LIFY, verb transitive [Latin none, and to make.] To annul; to make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy.

859

NULLITY

NUL'LITY, noun1. Nothingness; want of existence.2. Want of legal force, validity or efficacy.

860

NUMB

NUMB, adjective1. Torpid; destitute of the power of sensation and motion; as, the fingers or limbs are numb with cold.2. Producing numbness; benumbing; as the numb cold night. [...

861

NUMBED

NUMBED, participle passive Rendered torpid.

862

NUMBER

NUM'BER, noun [Probably the radical sense is to speak, name or tell, as our word tell, in the other dialects, is to numbernumber may be allied to name, as the Spaniards use nomb...

863

NUMBERED

NUM'BERED, participle passive Counted; enumerated.

864

NUMBERER

NUMBERER, noun One that counts numbers.