nature 
My offences being many, I would repent out the re- 
mainder of nature. Shak., All's Well, iv. 3. 272. 
O, sir, you are old ; 
Nature in you stands on the very verge 
Of her confine. Shale., Lear, ii. 4. 149. 
13. In theol., the natural unregenerate state of 
the soul ; moral character in its original condi- 
tion, unaffected by grace. 
We all . . . were by nature the children of wrath, even 
as others. E P n - ii- 3. 
Yet if we look more closely we shall find 
Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind ; 
Nature affords at least a glimmering light ; 
The lines, though touch'd but faintly, are drawn right. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 21. 
The Judgment, umpire in the strife 
That Grace and Nature have to wage through life. 
Coivper, Tirocinium, 1. 30. 
14. Conscience. 
Make thick my blood ; 
Stop up the access and passage to remorse, 
That no compunctious visitings of nature 
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between 
The effect and it ! Shak., Macbeth, i. 5. 46. 
15. Spontaneity; abandon; felicity; truth; 
naturalness. 
With Shakspear's nature, or with Jonson's art. 
Pope, Dunciad, ii. 224. 
Course of nature, crime against nature, debt of na- 
ture, effort of nature, freak of nature. See course! , 
crime, etc. Formal nature. See formal. Good na- 
ture, (at) Due natural affection. 
And therfor alle faders and moders after good nature 
aught to teche her children to leue alle wrong and euelle 
waies, and shew hem the true right weye. 
Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry, p. 4. 
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amander of fire, a gnome of the earth, or an un- 
dine of the water. 
nature-worship (na'tur-wer"ship), n. A re- 
ligion which deifies th"e" phenomena of physical 
nature, such as the heavenly bodies, tire, the 
wind, trees, etc. ; also, the principles or prac- 
tice of such a religion. 
naturism (na'tur-izm), n. [= F. naturisme ; as 
nature + -ism.]" 1 . In med., a view which attrib- 
utes everything to nature. Dunglison. [Rare.] 
2. Worship of the powers of nature: same 
as nature-worship. Encyc. Brit., XX. 367. 
naturist (na'tur-ist), n. [= F. naturiste; as 
nature + -ist.^j" If. See the quotation. 
Those that admit and applaud the vulgar notion of na- 
ture, I must here advertise you, partly because they do so, 
and partly for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter many times 
call naturists. Boyle, Works, V. 168. 
2. A physician who trusts entirely to nature 
to effect a cure, 
naturistic (na-tu-ris'tik), a. [< naturist + -if.] 
Of or pertaining to naturism or nature-worship. 
Encyc. Brit., XX. 366. 
naturityt (na-tu'ri-ti), n. [< nature + -ity.~] 
The quality or state of being produced by na- 
ture. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
naturizet ( n a'|ur-iz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. natu- 
rized, ppr. naturizing. [< nature + -ize.'] To 
endow with a nature * 
Of nature naturized 'gainst all infections. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
nauch, . See - t 
gent spirit. Ill nature, natural bad temper. In a state 
of nature, (a) Naked as when born ; nude. (6) In theol., 
in a state of sin ; unregenerated. Individuand nature. 
See individuand. Individuate nature. See indimdu- 
ate. Interpretation of nature. See interpretation. 
Law of nature, (a) An unwritten law depending upon 
an instinct of the human race, universal conscience, or 
common sense. [This was the usual sense before the mid- 
dle of the seventeenth century.] 
If the young dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no rea- 
son in the law of nature but I may snap at him. 
SAa*.,2Hen. IV., iii. 2. 357. 
(6) The regular course of human life. 
I died whilst in the womb he stayed, 
Attending nature's law. 
Shak., Cymbeline, v. 4. 38. 
from Cu'dworth under def. 2. The nature of things, 
the regular order or constitution of the universe. To go 
(rarely walk) the way of nature, to pay the debt of 
nature, to die. 
He 's walked the way of nature, 
And to our purposes he lives no more. 
Shak., 2 Hen. IV., v. 2. 4. 
To relieve or ease nature, to evacuate the bowels. 
II. a. Natural ; growing spontaneously : as, 
nature grass; nature hay. [Scotch.] 
nature (na'tur), v. t. ; pret. and pp. natured, 
ppr. naturiiig. [< ME. naturen; < nature, .] 
To endow with distinctive natural qualities. 
He which iwtureth every kynde, 
The mighty God, Gower, Conf. Amant., vii. 
Others, similarly natured, will not permit him ... to 
do this. Spencer, Data of Ethics, 97. 
nature-deity (iia'tur-de"i-ti), n. A deity per- 
sonifying a phenomenon or force of physical 
nature. 
nature-god (na'tur-god), n. Same as nature- 
deity. 
naturel, a. If. A Middle English form of nat- 
ural. 2. [F.] In her., same as proper. 
natureless (na'tur-les), a. [< nature + -less.'] 
Not consonant with nature ; unnatural. Milton. 
nature-myth (na'tur-mith), . A myth sym- 
bolical of or supposed to be based on natural 
phenomena. 
nature-print (ua'tur-print), n. An impression 
obtained directly from a natural object, as a 
leaf, by means of one of the processes of na- 
ture-printing. 
nature-printing (na'tur-prin"ting), n. A pro- 
cess invented by Alois Auer, in Vienna, Aus- 
tria, in 1853, by which objects, such as plants, 
mosses, ferns, lace, etc., are impressed on a 
metal plate so as to engrave themselves, copies 
or casts being then taken for printing. The ob- 
a ship, + KAf/pof, lot, property: see clerk."] 1. 
In ornith., a genus of Falconidce, of the sub- 
family Milrinai; the swallow-tailed kites. The 
type is the African N. riocouri, and the genus has often 
also included the American N. furcatui, now usually call- 
ed Elanoides forficatus. See cut under Elanoides. 
2. In ichth., a spurious genus of fishes, based 
on the young of Naucrates, or a stage of de- 
velopment of the young pilot-fish, Naucrates 
ductor, when a first dorsal fin and preopercular 
spines are present. Cuvier and Valenciennes, 
1839. 3. [I. c.] The stage of growth repre- 
sented by the spurious genus Nauclerus, 2, as 
of Seriola or any other genus of carangids. 
sects founded by Leach, in 1818, upon the genus 
Naucoris; the water-scorpions. They are preda- 
ceous aquatic bugs, flat-bodied, and usually oval, living in 
quiet reedy pools, where they swim and creep about in 
search of their prey. They are widely distributed, and 
abound in the southwestern United States and Mexico. 
Naucoris (na'ko-ris), n. [NL. (Geoffroy, 1762), 
< Gr. vavf, a ship, + it6pif, a bug.] The typi- 
cal genus of Naucorida!, formerly referred to 
the Nepidce. The species are Old World, being 
replaced in America by the members of the 
genus Pelocoris. 
Naucrates (na'kra-tez), n. [NL., < Gr. vavupa- 
TW, a fish so called, lit. holding a ship fast (cf. 
Echeneis), < vavi;, a ship, + Kparstv, rule, govern.] 
Pressed lead plate an electrotyped printing-plate is made, 
here are other processes, one of which consists in ob- 
taining an impression from natural objects on sheets of 
softened gutta-percha, from which an electrotype or a 
stereotype may then be taken. Also called physiotypy. 
nature-spirit (na'tur-spir"it), n. An elemen- 
tal ; an imaginary being, supposed to be a spirit 
of some element, as a sylph of the air, a sal- 
Pilot-fish (Naucrates ductor}. 
A genus of fishes of the family Carangidcc; the 
pilot-fish. N. ductor is the type. See pilot-fish. 
naufraget (na'fraj), n. [< F. naufrage = Sp. 
Pg. It. naufragio, < L. naufraglum, a shipwreck, 
< navis, a ship, + frangere (yfrag), break, dash 
to pieces: see nave%, fraction, fragile."] Ship- 
wreck. 
Guilty of the ruin and naufrage and perishing of infi- 
nite subjects. 
Bacon, Speech on taking his place in Chancery. 
naufrageoust, See naufragous. 
naufragiatet (na-fra'ji-at), v. t. [< naufrage 
(L. naufragiuni) + -ate 2 .] To shipwreck. Lith- 
gow, Pilgrim's Farewell (1618). 
naufragOUSt (na'fra-gus), a. [Also naufra- 
geous; = Sp. Pg. It. naufrago, < L. naufragus, 
wrecked, causing shipwreck, < navis, ship, + 
frangere (//'</), break : see naufrage.'] Caus- 
ing shipwreck. 
That tempestuous, and oft naufrageous sea, wherein 
youth and handsomeness are commonly tossed with no 
less hazard to the body than the soul. 
Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomeness, p. 33. 
nauger (na'ger), . [Also nawger; earlier form 
of auger, which is due to misdivision of a nan- 
naughtily 
get- as an auger. See auger.'] An auger. [Ob- 
solete or prov. Eng.] 
They bore the trunk with a nawjer, and ther issueth 
out sweet potable liquor. HoweU, Familiar Letters (1650). 
naught (nat), n. and a. [in two forms: (1) 
naught, < ME. naught, naugt, naut, natct, naght, 
n<tgt, naht, < AS. nawiht, *nawnht, with vowel 
shortened from orig. long, ndwilit, contr. nduht, 
naht; (2) nought, < ME. nout/ht, nougt, nout, 
nowt, noght, nogt, nowiht, etc., < AS. nowiht, 
contr. noht (= OS. neowiht, niowilit = OFries. 
ndwet, naut, nat = MLG. niet = D. niet = OHG. 
neowiht, niewiht, nieht, niht, MHG. nicht, G. 
nicht), nothing; in gen. nahtes = OFries. na- 
wetes, nawetis, nates = D. niets= MHG. nihtes, 
Gr. nichts, used in the predicate, of nothing, of 
no value, nothing; in ace. nawiht, naht, etc., 
as adv., not: see noft, a shorter form of the 
same word; < ne, not, + dwiht, dwuht, owiht, 
owuht, etc., aught, anything: see ne and aught 1 , 
ought 1 .'] I. n. I. Not anything; nothing. 
There was a man that hadde nought; 
There come theuys <ft robbed hym, & toke nought. 
Political Poeim, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 35. 
Mirrors, though decked with diamante, are nought worth, 
If the like forms of things they set not forth. 
B. Jonson, The Barriers. 
Of naught is nothing made. 
Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. 2. 
All human plans and projects come to naught. 
Browning, Ring and Book, vii. 902. 
2. A cipher; zero. [In this sense also com- 
monly nought; but there is no ground for any 
distinction.] 
Cast away like so many Naughts in Arithmetick. 
Milton, Eikonoklastes, xxvii. 
3f. Wickedness. 
Feire lordes, we haue euell and folily spedde of the 
arynes that we haue vndirtake a-gein the tjueenes knyghtes 
for envye and for nought. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 490. 
Be naught t, a familiar malediction, equivalent to "a 
plague (or a mischief) on you " : sometimes followed by 
the words au-hile or the while. 
Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile. 
Shak., As you Like it, i. 1. 39. 
So ; get ye together, and be naught ! 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, v. 3. 
TO call one to naughtt, to abuse one grossly. 
He called them all to naught in his fury, an hundred reb- 
els and traitors. 
N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 120. 
To come to naught, to come to nothing ; fail ; be a 
failure ; miscarry. To Bet at naught, to slight or disre- 
gard ; despise or defy. 
Ye have set at nought all my counsel. Prov. i. 25. 
And Herod with his men of war set him at nought, and 
mocked him, . . . and sent him again to Pilate. 
Luke xxiii. 11. 
To set naught byt. Same as to set at naught. 
The Saisnes ne sette naught ther-by, ne deyned not to 
arme the fourthe part of hem. Merlin(E. E. T. S.), iii. 440. 
II. a. If. Of little or no account or value; 
worthless; valueless; useless. 
Things naught t and things indifferent. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Being past these Islea which are many in number, but 
all naught for habitation, falling with a high land vpon 
the mayne, found a great Pond of fresh water. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, I. 174. 
2t. Lost; ruined. 
Go, get you to your house ; be gone, away ! 
All will be naught else. Shak., COT., iii. 1. 231. 
My cause was naught, for twas about your honour, 
And he that wrongs the innocent ne'er prospers. 
Fletcher, Kule a Wife, T. 3. 
3f. In a moral sense, wicked; bad; naughty. 
See naughty. 
God giveth men plenty of riches to exercise their faith 
and charity, to confirm them that be good, to draw them 
that be naught, and to bring them to repentance. 
Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1560. 
But when his [Pharaoh's] tribulation was withdrawen, 
than was he naught againe. 
Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 11. 
No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller. 
naughtt (nat), adv. [Also nought; < ME. naught, 
naugt, etc., nought, noght, etc., < AS. iiauiht, 
naht, etc., ace. of ndu-ih't, n. : see naught, n. See 
not 1 , a shorter form of the same word.] In no 
degree; not at all; not. See not 1 . 
I saw how that his houndes have him caught. 
And freten him, for that they knew him naught. 
Chaucer. 
Where he hits nought knowes, and whom he hurts nought 
cares. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 7. 
naughtily (na/ti-li), adv. If. Poorly; indif- 
ferently. 
26th. To the Duke's house, to a play. It was indiffer- 
ently done, flosnell not singing, but a new wench, that 
sings naughtily. Pepys, Diary, III. 35. 
