Dictionary entry

Natural (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Nat″u‐ral (?; 135), n. 1. A native; an aboriginal. Sir W. Raleigh.

2. pl. Natural gifts, impulses, etc. Fuller.

3. One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot. “The minds of naturals.” Locke.

4. (Mus.) 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.