nathemore 
nathemoret, nathinoret (nii'Tiie-iuoi '. n;rni' 
mor'), nilr. |< MK. mi tin- nu>n : see '. tin'-', 
morel, ("f. nalln-li'Kn.\ Not the more; never 
the more. 
But imthrmorr would that coraguinu swayne 
I o In -i ti < 1<I passage gainst his Lord to goc. 
SIH-HMT, V. t)., I. vili. 13. 
nat. hist. An abbreviation of inilin-nl lnxtnri/. 
Naticaumt'i-kii), . (NL., < ML. "milieu, in pi. 
mitica; buttock: see iialeh-. ('f. iiii/ifonii.'] The 
_ typical genus of \ali- 
ridie, containingsome 
200 species, and sub- 
divided into numer- 
ous subgonera. These 
sea-snails are all active, 
predatory, nnd carnivor- 
ous, and several are among 
the largest univalve shells 
found on the coasts of the 
Natiia canrrna. I llitetl States. A Very 
common one along the At- 
lantic coast, ff. (Lunatia) herog, is sometimes 6 inches long 
and 34 broad. Its egg-masses, seen everywhere on the 
beaches, are popularly known as 
sand-saucers. 
Naticidae (na-tis'i-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < Naiica + -toV.] A 
family of gastropods, typified 
by the genus Natica; a con- 
spicuous group of carnivorous 
mollusks, mostly dwelling on 
sandy or gravelly sea-bottoms at moderate 
depths. The animal has a large flat foot provided with 
a distinct fold or propodlum re- 
flected upon the head, tentacles 
slender, eyes abortive, teeth 3.1.3, 
the central one tricnspldate, the 
lateral subrhombiform, dentiger- 
ous, and the marginal unciform. 
The shell is generally subglobu- 
lar, with a semilunar entire aper- 
ture and more or less callous 
about the umbilicus. They have 
sometimes been called sea-tnails. 
naticiform (nat'i-si-form), N " ic " (&***>**< 
a. [< NL. Natica, q. y., + 
L. forma, form.] Having the form or aspect of 
the genus Natica; naticoid. 
Naticina (nat-i-si ' na), n. [NL., as Natica + 
-iwa 1 .] A genus of gastropods of the family 
Natitida;. 
Natieinae (nat-i-si'ne), n. pi. [NL., pi. of Nati- 
<(.] A subfamily of gastropods. Sicaingon. 
1840. 
naticine (nat'i-sin), a. Pertaining or related to 
Natica ; resembling a member of that genus. 
naticoid (nat'i-koid), a. and n. [< NL. Natica, 
q. v., + -oirf.] I. a. Like Natica or the Nati- 
cid*e; naticiform or naticine. 
II. n. A member of the Naticidte. 
natiform (nat'i-form), a. [< L. nate/s, the but- 
tocks, + forma, form.] Like or likened to but- 
tocks, as the urn in i nes of a shell: as, the nati- 
form tubercles of the brain. 
The not^orm protuberance of the temporal lobe. 
Huxley, Anat. Vert, p. 60. 
nation (na'shon), n. [< ME. nation, nacioun, < 
OF. nation, nation, nation, F. nation = Pr. natto, 
naision = Sp. nation = Pg. nac,&o = It. nazione = 
D. tut tie = MLG. natie=G. Sw. Dan. nation, <L. 
nafio(n-), birth, a goddess of birth, a race, a peo- 
ple, < nasti, pp. natug, be born: see nascent.] 1. 
In a broad sense, a race of people ; an aggrega- 
tion of persons of the same etlinic family, and 
speaking the same language or cognate lan- 
guages. 
There arryven Cristene Men and Sarazynea and Men of 
alle Naciimnt. Mandeville, Travels, p. 28. 
Thlslondeof Jherusalem hathheninthehandesof many 
sondry Hacyons, as of Jewes, Cananeis, Assiriens. 
Sir S. QuyVorde, Pylgrymage, p. -J2. 
2. In a narrower sense, a political society com- 
posed of a sovereign or government and sub- 
jects or citizens, and constituting a political 
unit ; an organized community inhabiting a cer- 
tain extent of territory, within which its sov- 
ereignty is exercised. 
A notion may be defined as a body of population which 
its proper history has made one in itself, and us such dis- 
tinct from all oth-'rs. 
A. W. Ward, Eng. Dram. Lit., Int., p. xvl. 
A notion is an organized community within a certain 
territory : or, in other words, there must be a place where 
its sole sovereignty is exercised. 
W oofctey, Introd. to Inter. Law. $ .vj. 
Nation is nearly synonymous with people, and in the 
United States It is applied to the whole body of the peo- 
ple coming iniiler the jurisdiction of the Federal govern- 
ment. Ci,trii, Const. Limit. (5th ed.X Prin. Const. Law, 20. 
Hence 3. A tribe, community, or congrega- 
tion, whether of men or animals. 
I.VI-M HI tin- ,,nii,,,t of unfortunate 
And fatiill birds almut them nocked were. 
<>.. II. xii. :;. 
There his well-woven toils and subtle trains 
lie laid, the brutish nation to enwrap. 
Kpeiurr, Astrophel, I. fit*. 
You are a subtile nation, you physicians ! 
B. Joiaon, Hejanus, I. 2. 
But lawyers are too wise a notion 
T expose their trade to disputation. 
S. Butter, Iludibras, III. 111. 48. 
4. A division of students for voting purposes, 
according to their place of birth, as in the uni- 
versities of Aberdeen and Glasgow, and former- 
ly in that of Paris. 
These several nations (in the university of Paris] first 
came Into existence some time before the year 1219, and 
all belonged to the faculty of arts. . . . Each of the na- 
tions . . . was, like a royal colony, in a great measure self- 
governed. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 836. 
Of. Race ; species ; family; lineage. 
Alias ! that any of my nacioun 
Sholde evere so foulc disparaged be. 
Chaucer, Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 212. 
Ful oftc tyrne he hadde the bord bygonne 
Aboven alle jiacitntiu in Pruce. 
Chaucer, den. Prol. to C. T., L 63. 
6. A great number; a multitude. [Colloq.] 
The French had such a nation of hedges, and copses, and 
ditches. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, v. 21. 
Law of nations. See fowl. Most favored nation 
clause. Seedautc. =Sjrn. 1 and 2. Raft, etc. See people. 
nation (na'shon), adi\ [An adverbial use of 
nation, ., 6 ; prob. also in part an abbr. of dar- 
nation.~\ Very; extremely; by a vast deal: as. 
nation mean; nntto/tpa'ticlar. [Prov. Eng. ann 
New Eng.] 
There, full oft, 'tis notion cold. 
Eaex Dialect, Soakn and Stylet. (BarUett.) 
It ... makes a noise like father's gun, 
Only a nation louder. Yankee Doodle (song). 
national (nash'qn-al), a. [=: F. national = Sp. 
Pg. national = ft. nazionale = D. nationaal = G. 
Sw. Dan. national,^ NL. nationalist L. natio(n-), 
nation: see nation.'] 1. Of or pertaining to a 
nation, or a country regarded as a whole : op- 
posed to local or provincial, and in the United 
States to State : as, national troops, defenses, 
debt, expenditure, etc. ; hence, general ; pub- 
lic: as, national interests; the national wel- 
fare. 
The spirit (of the people] rose against the Interference 
of a foreign priest with their national concerns. 
Mnravlay, llnrlcigli. 
As a national tax levied by the Witan of all England, 
and passing into the hands of the king of all England, this 
tax [the Danegeld] practically brought home the national 
idea as it had never been brought home before. 
J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 389. 
2. Established and maintained by the nation, 
or by authority of its laws : as, national banks ; 
a national system of education; a national 
church. 3. Peculiar or common to the whole 
people of a country: as, national language, cus- 
toms, or dress ; a national trait; a national re- 
ligion ; national pride. 
They, in their earthly Canaan placed, 
Long time shall dwell and prosper, but when sins 
national interrupt their public peace. 
Milt,,,,. P. L., xii. 317. 
To urge reformation of national ill. 
<'nii,*-r. The Flatting Mill. 
4. Characterized by attachment or devotion to 
one's own race or country, or its institutions. 
His high and sudden elevation naturally raised him up 
a thousand enemies among a proud, punctilious, and In- 
tensely national people. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., U. 8. 
National air. See air*. National Assembly, in French 
hist. : (a) See aftembly. (6) The name of the popular assem- 
bly after the revolution of 1848, and again In 1871 after the 
fall of the second empire in 1870. (c) According to the 
Constitution of 1875, the name of the two houses, the Sen- 
ate and the Chamber of Deputies, when in joint session. 
National bank. See banks, 4. National church, the 
church established by law in a country or nation, gener- 
ally representing the prevalent form of religion. In Eng- 
land the national church Is Anglican or Episcopal, and 
In Scotland the national church is Protestant and Presby- 
terian the sovereign being in both countries the tem- 
poral head of the church, and represented at the General 
Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland by n em- 
missioner. National convention, Council, Covenant. 
See the nouns. National Currency Acts. See cur- 
rency. National debt. See rf<*t. - National domain. 
See domain. National ensign, the flag of a nation. 
National guard, (a) An armed force identified with the 
French revolutionary epoch, flrst formed In 1789 under 
tile name of :,,ir,l? bourffcotoe. It was abolished by the gov- 
ernment in 1827, but reorganized in 1830, and formed an 
important part of the armed force of the kingdom under 
Louis Philippe, (b) A name sometimes given to the organ- 
i/e<i militia in some parts of the 1'iiitni States. Attbrevl- 
at,.l.Y.',' National Institute. ateTtutOutfo/fnaut, 
linden'/. stitiitr. - National Liberals, s, , Liberal. Na- 
tional party, in ('. .<r. Ainf., a name of the Greenback-La- 
bor party (which see, under rrrrenoack). National Re- 
publican, salute, schools, etc. see the nouns. 
nationalize 
nationalisation, nationalise, > . 
alizatiim, cti-. 
nationalism (nnnh'on-al-izm), n. [< national + 
-ixw.l 1. National spirit ornspirut ions: devo- 
tion to the nation; desire for national unity. 
indepcii'lrncT. in 1 prosperity. 
The Seaiiani, as the representatives of nationalism, know- 
ing that they could not stand alone, had looked for friends 
elsewhere. f'roude, Cesar, p. 220. 
2. [cai>.] Specifically, in Ireland, the political 
program of the party that agitates for more or 
less complete separation from Great Britain. 
3. An idiom or a phrase peculiar to a nation ; a 
national trait or peculiarity. 
nationalist (nasli'on-al-ist), H. and . [< niilinn- 
nl + -int.~\ I. n. 1. In theol., one who holds to 
the divine election of entire nations as distin- 
guished from that of particular individuals. 
Quarterly Rev. 2. A member of a Jewish politi- 
cal party in the time of Christ ; a zealot. 3. 
[cop.] A supporter of Irish nationalism. 
The Unionists cried out against a remedy for the coer- 
cion of the disloyal Irish Nationalub which would neces- 
sitate the coercion by the latter of the loyal inhabitants of 
Ulster. Appleton't Ann. Cyc., 1880, p. 403. 
II. a. Of or pertaining to nationalists; advo- 
cating or upholding nationalism, 
nationality (nash-o-nari-ti), n.; pi. nationali- 
ties (-tiz). [= F. nationality = Sp. nacionalidad; 
as national + -ity.'] 1. The fact of being a 
member of a particular nation ; birth and mem- 
bership in a particular nation ; relationship by 
birth and race to a particular nation: as, the 
nationality of an immigrant. 2. Relationship 
as property, etc., to a particular nation, or to 
one or more of its members: as, the nationality 
of a ship. 3. The people constituting a par- 
ticular nation; a nation; a race of people. 
When the revolution of 1848 broke out, oppressed na- 
tvnialitie* were heard of everywhere. 
a. S Kdvardt, Polish Captivity, II. vi. (Latham.) 
Hadjis and merchants from all the neighboring countries 
elbow the native Persians, and each natwnatity is easily 
distinguished. O' Donovan, Merv, xL 
The war which established our position as a vigorous 
nationality has also sobered us. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 78. 
4. Separate existence as a nation ; national 
unity and integrity. 
Institutions calculated to Insure the preservation of their 
nationality. 
Quoted In B. S. Edwardt't Polish Captivity, II. yl. 
The partition of Poland . . . was the event that forced 
the idea of natvinality upon the world. 
StuNa, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 2S. 
5. Nationalism; devotion or strong attachment 
to one's own nation or country. 
In antiquity they (the Jews] developed an Intense sen- 
timent of nationality. J. Fitke, Idea of God, p. 72. 
nationalization (nash'qn-al-i-za'shon), n. [< 
nationalize + -ation."] 1. l*he act of rendering 
national in character instead of local. 
Calhonn's letter to Pakenham was the official proclama- 
tion of the nationalization of slavery, only, however, so far 
as It imposed duties upon the Union, but by noTneans 
with regard to any corresponding rights. 
//. twn lloltt, John C. Calhoun (trans.), p. 239. 
2. The act of making national as regards pos- 
session, use, and control; especially, as advo- 
cated by many socialists, the abolition of pri- 
vate property, as in lands, railways, etc., and 
the vesting of it in the nation for national use : 
as, the nationalization of land. 
Without compensation, nationalization of the land is 
flagrantly unjust and quite hopeless ; with compensation, 
its benefits are remote and doubtful. 
Orpen, tr. of Laveleye's Socialism, p. 299. 
ffationalaation of the land makes its appearance in the 
list of many a London Working Men's Club, \atiimali. 
zation of ordinary capital and state regulation of wages 
appear hardly less frequently. 
Contemporary Ken., LIII. 149. 
Also spelled niitioiinlixiition. 
nationalize (nash'on-al-iz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
nationalized, ppr. nationalizing. [< national + 
-i>e.] 1. To make national: as, to nationalize 
an institution. 2. To give the character of a 
nation to ; stamp with the political attachments 
which belong to citizens of the same nation : as, 
to nationalize a foreign colony. 
New England now [1801] contains a million and a half 
of inhabitants : of all colonies that ever were founded the 
largest, the most assimilated, and, to use the modern jar- 
gon, nationalize?. Fishrr Amet, Works, II. 134. 
3. To make the property of the state or nation 
for national uses; abolish private ownership 
in, anil vest in the nation for national use: as. 
to nationalize the land of a country. 
