NINETEENTH
NI'NETEENTH, adjective The ordinal of nineteen; designating nineteen.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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NINETIETH
NI'NETIETH, adjective The ordinal of ninety.
NINETY
NI'NETY, adjective Nine times ten; as ninety years.
NINNY
NIN'NY, noun A fool; a simpleton.
NINTH
NINTH, adjective The ordinal of nine; designating the number nine, the next preceding ten; as the ninth day or month.NINTH, noun In music, an interval containing an octave and a...
NIP
NIP, verb transitive [G. a nipping tool; to nip to cut off, to pinch.]1. To cut, bite or pinch off the end or nib, or to pinch off with the ends of the fingers. The word is used...
NIPPED
NIP'PED, participle passive Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted.
NIPPER
NIP'PER, noun1. A satirist. [Not used.]2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four.
NIPPERS
NIP'PERS, noun Small pinchers.
NIPPING
NIP'PING, participle present tense Pinching; pinching off; biting off the end; cropping; clipping; blasting; killing.
NIPPINGLY
NIP'PINGLY, adverb With bitter sarcasm.
NIPPLE
NIP'PLE, noun1. A teat; a dug; the spungy protuberance by which milk is drawn from the breasts of females.2. The orifice at which any animal liquor is separated.
NIPPLEWORT
NIP'PLEWORT, noun A plant of the genus Lapsana.
NIPT
NIPT, participle passive Pinched; bit; cropped; blasted.
NISAN
NIS'AN, noun A month of the Jewish calendar, the first month of the sacred year and seventh of the civil year, answering nearly to our March. It was originally called Abibi, but...
NISIPRIUS
NISIPRIUS, noun In law, a writ which lies in cases where the jury being impaneled and returned before the justices of the bench, one of the parties requests to have this writ fo...
NIT
NIT, noun The egg of a louse or other small insect.
NITENCY
NI'TENCY, noun [Latin to shine.]1. Brightness; luster. [Little used.]2. [Latin to strive.] Endeavor; effort; spring to expand itself. [Little used.]
NITER
NI'TER, noun [In Hebrew, the verb under which this word appears signifies to spring, leap, shake, and to strip or break; in Ch. to strip or to fall off; in Syriac, the same; in ...
NITHING
NITH'ING, noun A coward; a dastard; a poltroon. [See Niding.]
NITID
NIT'ID, adjective1. Bright; lustrous; shining.2. Gay; spruce; fine; applied to persons. [Little used.]
NITRATE
NI'TRATE, noun A salt formed by the union of the nitric acid with a base; as nitrate of soda.
NITRATED
NI'TRATED, adjective Combined with niter.
NITRIC
NI'TRIC, adjective Impregnated with niter. nitric acid is the acid saturated with oxygen, or an acid composed of oxygen and nitrogen or azote.
NITRIFICATION
NITRIFICATION, noun The process of forming niter.
NITRIFY
NITRIFY, verb transitive [Latin] To form into niter.
NITRITE
NI'TRITE, noun A salt formed by the combination of the nitrous acid with a base.