NARD
NARD, noun1. A plant usually called spikenard, spica nardi; highly valued by the ancients, both as an article of luxury and of medicine. It is an odorous or aromatic plant.2. An...
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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NARD, noun1. A plant usually called spikenard, spica nardi; highly valued by the ancients, both as an article of luxury and of medicine. It is an odorous or aromatic plant.2. An...
NARDINE, adjective Pertaining to nard; having the qualities of spikenard.
NARE, noun The nostril.
NARRABLE, adjective That may be related, told, or narrated.
NARRATE, verb transitive1. To tell, rehearse or recite, as a story; to relate the particulars of any event or transaction, or any series of incidents.2. To write, as the particu...
NARRATED, participle passive Related; told.
NARRATING, participle present tense Relating; telling; reciting.
NARRATION, noun1. The act of telling or relating the particulars of an event; rehearsal; recital.2. Relation; story; history; the relation in words or writing, of the particular...
NARRATIVE, adjective1. Relating the particulars of an event or transaction; giving a particular or continued account.2. Apt or inclined to relate stories, or to tell particulars...
NARRATIVELY, adverb By way of narration, story, or recital.
NARRATOR, noun One that narrates; one that relates a series of events or transactions.
NARRATORY, adjective Giving an account of events.
NARROW, adjective I suspect this word and near to be contracted by the loss of g, nig, narrow strait; nigiaw, to narrow; for the D. has naauw, narrow close, G. with a prefix. In...
NARROWED, participle passive Contracted; made less wide.
NARROWING, ppr. Contracting; making less broad.
NARROWINGS, noun The part of a stocking which is narrowed.
NARROWLY, adverb1. With little breadth.2. Contractedly; without much extent.3. Closely; accurately; with minute scrutiny; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly4. Nea...
NARROWNESS, noun1. Smallness of breadth or distance from side to side; as the narrowness of cloth, of a street or highway, of a stream or sea.2. Smallness of extent; contractedn...
NARROWS, noun A strait; a narrow passage through a mountain, or a narrow channel of water between one sea or lake and another; a sound. It is usually in the plural, but sometime...
NARWAL, noun The Monodon monoceros, a cetaceous animal found in the northern seas, which grows to twenty feet in length. The spiracle of this animal is on the anterior part of t...
NAS, for ne has, has not.
NASAL, adjective Pertaining to the nose; formed or affected by the nose; as a nasal sound; a nasal letter.NASAL, noun1. A letter whose sound is affected by the nose.2. A medicin...
NASCAL, noun1. A kind of medicated pessary.2. Pessary made of wool or cotton, to raise the nose when compressed.
NASCENT, adjective [to be born] beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.
NASEBERRY, noun The naseberry tree is a species of the genus Sloanea.
NASICORNOUS, adjective Having a horn growing on the nose.
NASTILY, adverb1. In a nasty manner; filthily; dirtily.2. Obscenely.