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navy-agent (na'vi-a"jent), n. A disbursing of Nazareth, < Nafa/atfl or Nafaper (LL. Nazara), 
agent of the United States navy. Agents of this < Heb. Nazareth.] Same as Nazarene, 2. 
class were formerly stationed at every large seaport. The Nazarene (naz-a-ren'), n. [< L. XazarniH*, < 
office no longer exists, all disbursements being now made Q r x a ~ a , }t!vuf of Nazareth, < Rafaptd. Nazareth : 
nayy-bKls e L S bil),. 1. A bill drawn by an * ^arean.] 1. An inhabitant of Nazareth, 
officer of the British navy for his pay, etc. 2. 
A bill issued by the British admiralty in payment 
of stores for shi 
near 
TMted 
abroad, to procure money 
for the expenses of the ship or fleet, 
navy-list (na'vi-list), n. A " nffioiiil 
An official account of 
But divers in Italy at this day excell in that kind [mo- 
saic painting] ; yet make the particles of clay, gilt and 
coloured before they be neiled by the fire. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 25. 
II. intrans. To be tempered by heat. See 
anneal 1 . [Hare.] 
Reduction is chiefly effected by fire, wherein, if they 
stand and nele, the imperfect metals vapour away. 
Bacon, Physiological Remains. 
2. A member of a sect of Jewish Christians ne aled-tot (neld'to), a. Having deep soundings 
which continued to the fourth century. They e i ose in : said of a shore. Phillips, 1706. 
observed the Mosaic ritual, and looked for a millennium on _],.;,, /,,s ., i A ;'iV1 n nrnlnn n 4- ir ~\ 
earth. Unlike the Ebionites, they believed in the divinity n al i c , U**""^ Ik )' ; l> nealog-y + 
of Christ. SeeUWonifa. Youthful ; juvenile ; adolescent; ot or pert ain- 
a town in Galilee, Palestine : a name given (in 
the United States navy, their stations, rates of 
pay, etc., with a list of the ships. 
navy-WOrdt (na'vi-werd), . A watchword, pa- 
rol, or countersign. 
navy-yard (na'vi-yard),. A government dock- 
yard ; in the United States, a dockyard where 
government ships are built, repaired, and fitted 
out, and where naval stores and munitions of 
war are laid up. There are such yards at Kittery in 
Maine (near Portsmouth, New Hampshire), at Charlestown 
in Massachusetts, at Brooklyn in New York, at Norfolk in 
Virginia, at Pensacola in Florida, at Mare Island in Cali- 
fornia, etc. 
>K, < Helb. nazar, separate oneself, vow 
abstain.] Among the ancient Hebrews, a re- 
ligious devotee, separated to the Lord by a spe- 
see -ology.] The doctrine of the morphological 
correlations of early adolescent stages of an 
animal, usually derived from the adult of a 
cial vow, the terms of which are carefully pre- more or less closely approximate stock of the 
scribed in Num. vi. They included entire abstinence same division of the animal kingdom. Hyatt. 
from wine and other intoxicating liquors, from all cutting neamt, [ME. neme, a form due to misdivi- 
of the hair, and from all approach to a dead body. The g j on o f niijne erne, thyn erne, as my neme, tliy 
neme, etc.: see earn.] Uncle: same as e/ini. 
vow might be taken either fora limited period or for life. 
Nazarite tresses, long hair. 
With Nazarite-tresses to my crosse will I bind her cross- 
ing frowardness and contaminations. 
Nash, Christes Teares over Jerusalem. 
Nazariteship (naz'a-rit-ship), n. [< Nazarite 
nawab (na-wab'), n. [Hind, nawab, nawwab : + -ship.] The state or condition of being a 
see nabob.] Same as nabob. Nazarite. 
nawger, . See nauger. Nazaritic(naz-a-rit'ik),a. [< Nazarite + -ic.] 
nawlt (nal), n. [Also nail; a form of awl, due Pertaining to a'Nazarite or to Nazaritism. 
to misdivision of an awl as a nawl: see awl] Nazaritism (naz'a-rit-izm), w. [< Nazarite + 
An awl. -ism.] The vows or practices of the Naza- 
Bewar also to spurn agein an nalle. 
Chancer, Truth, 1. 11. 
There shall be no more shoe-mending ; 
Every man shall have a special care of his own sole, 
And in his pocket carry his two confessors, 
"Lo, childe," he saide, "this is thy neme; 
Ther, Father, brother thou may senne in heuen." 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 102. 
Neanderthaloid (ne-an'der-tal-oid), a. [< 
Neanderthal (see def.) + -old.] Pertaining to 
the Neanderthal, in the Rhine Province, Prus- 
sia; resembling a now historic skull, of a very 
low type, found in that locality; noting this 
type of skull. 
A type [of cranium] which has received the name Nean- 
derthaloid, because it reaches the extreme developement 
in the famous skull discovered in the Neanderthal, near 
Bonn. W. U. Flower, Jour. Anthrop. Inst., XVI. 377. 
His lingel and his nawl. 
Fletcher, Women Pleased, iv. 1. 
nazir (na-zer'), n. [Ar. (> Hind.) Jianr.j In 
India, a native official in the Anglo-Indian 
nay (na), adv. [< ME. nay, nai,< Icel. nei (= Sw. courts, who has charge of the treasury, stamps, 
11 ej = Dan. nei), nay, < n-, orig. ne, not, + ci, ever, 
ay, = AS. a, ever: see ne and aye 3 , and cf. no 1 .] 
naze (naz), n. [Var. of ness, perhaps due to Icel. 
nog, Sw. nasa, nose : see ness, nose 1 .'] A promoii- neap 1 (nep), a. and n. [< ME. neep, < AS. nep, 
tory or headland: as, the naze of Norway. scant or lacking (found alone but once, in the 
lazir (na-zer'), n. [Ar. (> Hind.) nazir.] In poet, phrase "forthganges nep," without power 
of advancing), in comp. nepflod, low tide, ebb, 
lit. ' neap flood ' ; cf . Icel. kneppr, neppr, scanty ; 
Sw. l-napp = Dan. knap, scanty, strait, narrow, 
nappe, scarcely; perhaps orig. ' pinched,' being 
appar. connected with nip 1 . But the history is 
obscure.] I. a. Low; lowest: applied to those 
tides which, being half-way between spring 
tides, have the least difference of height be- 
etc., and the issue of summonses and processes. 
Yule and Burnett. 
1. No: an expression of negation or refusal. If. B. An abbreviation of the Latin nota bene, 
"Nai, bi the peril of my soule," quod Pers. literally, mark or note well that is, take par- 
Piers Plowman (AX vi. 47. ticular notice. 
I tell you nay; but, except ye repent, ye shall all like- Jfb. In chem., the symbol for niobium. 
wise perish. Luke xiii. 5. n .dimensional (en'di-menshon-al), a. Having tween flood and ebb. See tide. 
2. Not only so, but; and not only (that which any number, n, of dimensions: as, an n-dimcn- H. . J. A neap tide. 
sional space.-jv-dimensional determinant. See 
determinant. 
ne (ne), adr. [< ME. ne, < AS. ne = OS. ne, ni 
= OFries. ni, ne = MD. ne, en, D. en = MLG. 
ne = OHG. ni, ne, MHG. ne = Icel. ne = Goth. 3 The ebb or lowest point of a tide. 
= Ir. Gael. W. ni = L. ne (> It. ne = OF. 
has just been mentioned), but also ; indeed; in 
point of fact: as, the Lord is willing, nay, he 
desires, that all should repent. 
A'ay, if he take you in hand, sir, with an argument, 
He 11 bray you in a mortar. B. Junmn, Alchemist, ii. 1. 
Come, do not weep : I must, nay, do believe you. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, iii. 2. 
To say (any one) nay, to deny ; refuse. 
The fox made several excuses, but the stork would not 
be said nay. Sir R. L' Estrange. 
nay (na), w. [< nay, adv.] 1. A denial; re- 
fusal. 
There was no nay, but I must in, 
And take a cup of ale. W. Browne. 
2. A negative vote; hence, one who votes in 
the negative: as, the yeas and nays. it Is no 
nayt, there is no denying it. 
Wherfore to hym I will, this is noo naye, 
Where euer he be, I say yow certaynly. 
Qenerydes (E. E. T. S-X 1. 1135. 
To nick With nay. See nick*. 
nay (na), v. [ME. nayen, naien; < nay, adv. Cf. 
nait 2 , nite.] I. intrans. To say nay ; refuse. 
With how deef an ere deth crewel torneth awey fro H6t (ne), COJy. 
wreches and naieth [var. nayteth\ to closyn wepynge eyen. 
Chaucer, Boethius, i. meter 1. 
II. trans. To refuse ; deny. 
The swain did woo ; she was nice ; 
Following fashion, nay'd him twice. 
Greene, Shepherd's Ode. 
Her [the sea's) motion of ebbing and flowing, of high 
springs and dead neapes, are still as certaine and constant 
as the changes of the moone and course of the sunne. 
Hakewitt, Apology, II. viii. 1. 
m 
ne, ni, F. ne, ni) = Gr. v>/-, prefix, = Skt. na, 
not. This negative contracts with certain fol- 
lowing words beginning with a vowel (or h or 
w) to form a word of opposite sense, as in nay, 
no 1 , no'J, none 1 , nor, neither, and, formerly, to 
negative some auxiliary verbs, as nam, ne am, 
nart, ne art, nis, ne is, nab, ne have, nas, ne 
was, ne has, nere, ne were, nill, ne will, etc.] 
Not; never; nay. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Of xiiij M1 that he brought . . . ne myght he not assem- 
ble vj M1 that alle ne were dede or taken, and ne hadde be 
oon a-venture that fill, ther hadde neuer of hem escaped 
oon a-wey. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 237. 
Is 't true? Ne let him runue into the warre, 
And lose what limbes he can : better one branch 
Be lopt away then all the whole tree should perish. 
Chapman, All Fools, i. 
At everie full sea they flourish, but at every dead neape 
they fade. Greene, Carde of Fancie. 
The lowest ebbe may have his flow, and the deadest 
neepe his full tide. Greene, Tullie's Love. 
[In the following passage from "English Gilds" neep ge- 
sons is defined by the editor as "the autumn ;" by Skeat 
as "the neap-tide seasons, when boats cannot come to the 
quay." 
Item, it hath been vsid, the Maire [of Bristol] this quar- 
ter specially to oversee the sale of wodde commynge to 
the bakke and to the key. . . . And that all grete wodde, 
callid Berkley wodde, be dischargid at the key beyond 
the Towre there, and all smalwodde to be dischargid at 
the Bak. Prouydid always that the woddesillers leve not 
the bak all destitute and bare of wodde, ne sofflr not the 
halyers to hale it all awey, but that they leve resonable 
stuff upon the bak fro spryng to spryng, to serue the pouerc 
people of penyworthes and balfpeny worthej in the neep 
sesons. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 42S. [ 
Deep neap, a neap tide shortly before a full or change of 
the moon, when there is a higher flood than at other neaps. 
i 2 n. See nee\ft. 
The tongue 
[< ME. ne, < AS. ne, coiij. ; < ne, 
adv.] Nor! neap . 
For he thoughte nevere evylle ne dyd evylle. neap" (nep), . [Origin obscure.] 
Mandeville, Travels, p. 2. or pole of a wagon or ox-cart. 
No Indian drug had e'er been famed, neaped (uept), a. [<neap 1 + -e(ft.] Leftaground 
Tobacco, sassafras not named; by the spring tides, so that it cannot be floated 
Ne yet of guacum one small stick, sir. until the next spring tide : said of a ship or 
naylet, . and v. An obsolete spelling of nail. , . ... S n ' Volpone ' lL l - boat. Also leneaped. 
naytet f. See naift. near (nef), . [Also (8c.) neif,newe,^ nieve;^< Neapolitan (ne-a-ppl'i-tan), a. and n. [< L. 
nay-wheret, adv. 
A Middle English form of 
nowhere. 
A man no better myght hit employ nay-where, 
For this knight is a worthi baculerc [bachelor]. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1925. 
naywordt (na'werd), n. 
verbial reproach. 
If I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a 
common recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie 
straight in my bed. Shak., T. N., ii. 3. 146. 
2. A watchword. 
ME. nefe, neve, < Icel. hnefi, nefi = Sw. nafve Neapolitans, pertaining'to Neapolis, < Neajio- 
= Dan. nave, the fist.] The fist or hand. [Prov. Us (> It. Nafioli, > F. Naples, E. Naples), < Gr. 
1. A byword; a pro- 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
His face was al^o-hurt and al to-schent, 
His neifis swellyng war and al to-Rent. 
Lancelot of the Laik (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1222. 
And smytand with neiffig hir breist, allace ! 
Gavin Douglas, tr. of Virgil, p. 123. 
Giue me your neafe, Mounsieur Mustardseed. 
Shak., M. N. D. (folio 1623), iv. 1. 19. 
neagert, 
And, in any case, have a nay-word, that you may know nea & Vl 
one another's mind. Shak., M. W. of w., ii. 2. 131. anneal 1 
, Naples, < veof, new (= E. itcir), + 770- 
/Uf, a city: see police.] I. a. Of ,_ 
or pertaining to Naples or its in- /": : - 
habitants. Neapolitan medlar. See * 
azarole. Neapolitan sixth, in mvsic, a *^ 
chord consisting of the sulidominant of a minor tonality 
with its minor third nnd minor sixth (see the cut). Its 
derivation is much disputed. 
II. >i. An inhabitant or a native of the city 
nazard, nazardly. See nasard, etc. 
Nazarean (naz-a-re'an), a. and n. [< L. Naza- 
I'CHK, < Gr. Safopaiof, of Nazareth, an inhabitant 
1, 1 j IT JS 1.1. '< ^-H UU1WIMWM1U J1 tl JlaLlVG J LIIO U1UY 
ft, . An obsolete spelling of nigger f N , f th province ol . the omer killg . 
(nei), r. [Also netl; by apheresis from d f Naples 
P.] I. trans. To temper by heat; anneal. 1 ( } ,1 d [Early mod. E. also 
And then the earth of my bottles, which I dig 
. Jonson, Devil is an Ass, ii. l. 
neei; >trcre,nrrre; 4.tfE.neer, nen ,iit-r, inn; m-m; 
near, < AS. iiciii; ;//. iidv.audprep.,nigher, near, 
contr. of *f((/i/ - (=OS. nuli6r = t). ' = MLG. 
