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{ , n. [ Mexican conepatl and epatl. ] (Zool.) The skunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. en- (Gr. &unr_;) + epidermic. ] (Med.) Applied to the skin without friction; -- said of medicines.

n. A tropical American tree (Melicocca bijuga) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp. [ Also spelled genip. ]
Syn. -- Spanish lime, Spanish lime tree, honey berry, mamoncillo, Melicocca bijuga, Melicoccus bijugatus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The grandson of one's brother or sister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a son of a niece or nephew.
Syn. -- grandnephew. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. gynh` a woman + fo`bos fear. ] Hatred of women; repugnance to the society of women. Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., Gr. "y`dwr water + &unr_; a kidney.] (Med.) An accumulation of urine in the pelvis of the kidney, occasioned by obstruction in the urinary passages. [1913 Webster]

a. [ L. ineptus; prefix. in- not + aptus apt, fit: cf. F. inepte. Cf. Inapt. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Aristotelian philosophy is inept for new discoveries. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

To view attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ineptitudo. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality of being inept; unfitness; inaptitude; unsuitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

That ineptitude for society, which is frequently the fault of us scholars. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Absurdity; nonsense; foolishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly. [ 1913 Webster ]

None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unfitness; ineptitude. [ 1913 Webster ]

The feebleness and miserable ineptness of infancy. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; a cloud. ] (Phys. Geog.) Having, or indicating, an equal amount of cloudiness for a given period; as, isonephelic regions; an isonephelic line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) See Cowpox.

Kin"e*scope n. See Kinetoscope. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. (Bot.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium), a tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A biennial weed in Europe and America having large pinnate leaves and yellow flowers and a bitter and somewhat poisonous root; the ancestor of cultivated parsnip; called also wild parsnip. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`sos middle + nefro`s kidney. ] (Anat.) The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the metanephros. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; behind + &unr_; kidney. ] (Anat.) The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Abbrev. fr. Nepeta. ] (Bot.) Catnip. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. nepa scorpion. ] (Zool.) A genus of aquatic hemipterous insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Nepal, a kingdom North of India; as, Nepalese troops massed at the border. [ Formerly written Nepaulese. ]
Syn. -- Nepali. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal, or an inhabitant of Nepal. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

prop. adj. same as Nepalese.
Syn. -- Nepalese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Nepal (formerly written Nepaul), a kingdom North of India; same as Nepalese. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Nepal. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family coextensive with the genus Nepenthes.
Syn. -- family Nepenthaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Fr. Gr. &unr_; removing all sorrow; hence, an epithet of an Egyptian drug which lulled sorrow for the day; &unr_; not + &unr_; sorrow, grief. ] A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Nepenthe. ] 1. Same as Nepenthe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A genus of climbing plants found in tropical areas of India, Malaya, Australia, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; soberness, fr. &unr_; sober, &unr_; to drink no wine: cf. F. néphalisme. ] Total abstinence from spirituous liquor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. néphaliste. ] One who advocates or practices nephalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Gr. nefe`lh cloud: cf. F. néphéline. Cf. Nebula. ] (Min.) A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy hexagonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. nefe`lh a cloud + "odo`s way + -meter.] (Meteorol.) An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. nefe`lh a cloud + -meter. ] 1. An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem., Microbiol.) An instrument which measures the degree to which liquid suspensions scatter light, and by inference, the concentration of scattering particles in the suspension. It is used for various purposes, such as to estimate the number of bacteria in suspension in a liquid. [ PJC ]

n. [ OE. neveu, nevou, nevu, fr. F. neveu, OF. also, nevou, L. nepos; akin to AS. nefa, D. neef, G. neffe, OHG. nevo, Icel. nefi a kinsman, Gr. ne`podes, pl., brood, young, Skr. nepāt grandson, descendant. √262. Cf. Niece, Nepotism. ] 1. A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But if any widow have children or nephews [ Rev. Ver. grandchildren ]. 1 Tim. v. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cousin. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Heb. n&ebreve_;phīlīm. ] Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ne`fos a cloud + -scope. ] (Meteorol.) An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ NL. nephralgia, fr. Gr. nefro`s a kidney + &unr_; pain: cf. F. néphralgie. ] (Med.) Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool. & Anat.) Of or pertaining to a nephridium. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Nephridia [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; of the kidneys. ] (Zool. & Anat.) A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. néphrite. See nephritis. ] (Min.) A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. It varies in color from white to dark green. It is the more common and less valuable variety of jade, the other being jadeite. Large deposits are found in Australia. Called also nephritic stone. See also Jade. [ MW10 ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. (Med.) A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , a. [ L. nephriticus, Gr. nefritiko`s: cf. F. néphrétique. See Nephritis. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient. (b) Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to nephrite. [ PJC ]

Nephritic stone (Min.), Nephrite; jade. See Nephrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. nefri^tis (sc. &unr_;), fr. nefro`s a kidney. ] (Med.) An inflammation of the kidneys. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. nefro`s a kidney + -lith + ic. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to kidney stones, or renal calculi. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. nefro`s a kidney + -logy. ] A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family in some classifications coextensive with the Homaridae.
Syn. -- family Nephropsidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. nefro`s a kidney + sto`ma mouth. ] (Zool. & Anat.) The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity. [ 1913 Webster ]