Webster's Dictionary 1828

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NERVED

NERVED, participle passive1. Armed with strength.2. In botany, having vessels simple and unbranched, extending from the base towards the tip; as a nerved leaf.

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NERVELESS

NERVELESS, adjective Destitute of strength; weak.

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NERVINE

NERVINE, adjective That has the quality of relieving in disorders of the nerves.NERVINE, noun A medicine that affords relief from disorders of the nerves.

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NERVOSE

NERVOSE, adjective In botany [See Nerved, No.2]

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NERVOUS

NERVOUS, adjective1. Strong; vigorous; as a nervous arm.2. Pertaining to the nerves; seated in or affecting the nerves; as a nervous disease or fever.3. Having the nerves affect...

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NERVOUSLY

NERVOUSLY, adverb With strength or vigor.

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NERVOUSNESS

NERVOUSNESS, noun1. Strength; force; vigor.2. The state of being composed of nerves.

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NERVY

NERVY, adjective Strong; vigorous.

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NESCIENCE

NESCIENCE, noun Want of knowledge; ignorance.

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NESH

NESH, adjective Soft; tender; nice. [Not used.]

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NESS

NESS, a termination of appellatives, denotes state or quality, as in goodness, greatness.

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NEST

NEST, noun1. The place or bed formed or used by a bird for incubation or the mansion of her young, until they are able to fly. The word is used also for the bed in which certain...

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NESTEGG

NESTEGG, noun An egg left in the nest to prevent the hen from forsaking it.

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NESTLE

NESTLE, verb intransitive1. To settle; to harbor; to lie close and snug, as a bird in her nest.The king-fisher nestles in hollow banks.Their purpose was to fortify in some stron...

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NESTLING

NESTLING, noun1. A young bird in the nest, or just taken from the nest.2. A nest.NESTLING, adjective Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.

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NESTORIAN

NESTORIAN, noun A follower of Nestorius, a heretic of the fifth century, who taught that Christ was divided into two persons.

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NET

NET, noun1. An instrument for catching fish and fowls, or wild beasts, formed with twine or thread interwoven with meshes.2. A cunning device; a snare. Mich 7.3. Inextricable di...

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NET-WORK

NET-WORK, noun A complication of threads, twine or cords united at certain distances, forming meshes, interstices or open space between the knots or intersections; reticulated o...

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NETHER

NETHER, adjective [This word is of the comparative degree; the positive occurs only in composition, as in beneath. It is used only in implied comparison, as in the nether part, ...

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NETHERMOST

NETHERMOST, adjective Lowest; as the nethermost hell; the nethermost abyss.

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NETTING

NETTING, noun1. A piece of network.2. A complication of ropes fastened across each other, to be stretched along the upper part of a ships quarter to contain hammocks. netting is...

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NETTLE

NETTLE, noun A plant of the genus Urtica, whose prickles fret the skin and occasion very painful sensations.And near the noisome nettle blooms the rose.NETTLE, verb transitive T...

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NETTLE-TREE

NETTLE-TREE, noun A tree of the genus Celtis whose leaves are deeply serrated, and end in a sharp point.

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NETTLED

NETTLED, participle passive Fretted; irritated.

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NETTLER

NETTLER, noun One that provokes, stings or irritates.

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NETTLING

NETTLING, participle present tense Irritating; vexing.

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NEUROLOGICAL

NEUROLOGICAL, adjective [See Neurology.] Pertaining to neurolgy, or to a description of the nerves of animals.