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net 
or woven with a mesh of any size, designed or 
Theplii 
That, moving, moves the nest and nestling. 
end of a long rope passes through this ferrule, and to it 
Tennyson, Sea Dreams. use d for catching animals alive, either by in- are attached numerous cords extending to the lead-rope. 
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2t The smallest bird in the nest; the weakest closing or by entangling them; a netting o 
network used as a snare or trap. Nets are of high 
antiquity and there are almost as many kinds of them as 
there are ways in which a piece of netting or a network 
can be adapted to the capture of animals. It is character- 
istic of nets to take the game alive, either by surrounding 
or inclosing it as i 
j of ne 
of the brood. 
Second brothers, and poore nestlings, 
Whom more injurious Nature later brings 
Into the naked world. Bp. Hall, Satires, II. ii. 43. 
II. . Being still a nestling; being yet in the 
nest. 
nature of the game, as, bird-nets, butterfly-nets, fish-nets; 
- 
na , , -, , 
I have educated nestling linnets under the three best f rom tne wav m w hich the game is taken, as, gill-net, gul- 
B .Bam>i</ton, S Experiments on Singing Birds. (Encyc. 
Nestor (nes'tor), n. [NL. L., < Gr. Neorwp, in 
inn-net; from the way in which the net is handled or 
worked as beating-net, dip-net, draw-net, drag-net, drift- 
net, drop-net, hand-net, landing-net, eet-net, stake-net, scoop- 
net from the shape of the netting, as, bag-net, purse-net, 
nv9w* \ ~TKTJ> * ^ , ' . .-. s . net: iroin me hiiapc ui me netting, <*o, vv,-. ,.., j-~. 
Greek legend a king of Pylos m Greece, the etc In the fl8 h er ies in which nets are most used, many 
oldest of the chief tains who took part in the O f them takeother names, as fyke, pound, seine,weir,trap. 
siege of Troy.] 1. The oldest and wisest (be . ff^S^ft^t^SRSS? &?SSS 
cause most experienced) man of a class or com- h "^ ze b een made reaching (with the ropes which haul 
panv : in allusion to Nestor in Greek legend, them) 5 miles, and sweeping more than 1,000 acres of 
Hence 2. A counselor; an adviser. 3. In 
water-bottom. The material ranges from the finest silk, 
IMfOOlM ls wie i^ew nawana nuna, ^?. /"i* buoy-lines to float one border 01 tne net or inuicau: nit 
other species. There are several others, some recently w hereabouts of a net under water ; sinkers, leads, or lead- 
dexterous fling of the arm holding the net, this is thrown 
in such a way as to spread out completely, and it is some- 
times hurled to a distance of many feet, so as to fall flat 
on the surface of the water. The leads sink immediately, 
forming a circular inclosure, and imprisoning any fish that 
happen to be under it at the time. The rope is then 
hauled in from the other end, causing the whole circum- 
ference to pucker inwardly, the leads and pucker coming 
together in a compact mass. These nets are extensively 
used in the West Indies and the southern United States. 
Cast-net, a flshing-net that is cast; a casting-net. 
Cherry-net, a net spread over a cherry-tree to keep off 
birds. 
To catch a dragon in a cherry net, 
To trip a tigress with a gossamer, 
Were wisdom to it. Tennyson, Princess, v. 
Clue-net, a purse seine. [New Jersey.] Collecting- 
net, a small seine used for collecting fish for specimens 
of "natural history; a collecting-seine. Darned net, 
any kind, embroidered with either white or colored 
thread of any material. It differs from darned embroi- 
extinct. 
Nestorian (nes-to'ri-an), a. and n. [< LL. 
lines to sink one border of the net to the bottom of the 
water; cords or ropes for setting, stretching, hauling, 
us (see def.).] I. . Of or pertaining to Nes- 
torius (see Nestorianism), or the Nestorians or 
their doctrines. 
The people are of sundry kinds, for there are not only 
Saracens and idolaters but also a few Xestorian Christians. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 760. 
Nestorian liturgy. See liturgy, 3 (3). 
II. n. 1 . A follower of Nestorius ; one who 
denies the hypostatic union of two natures in 
one person in Christ, holding that he possesses 
two distinct personalities, the union between 
BUS the Nestorians obtained possession of 
schools of Edessa, Nisibis, and Seleucia, and were driven 
by imperial edicts into Persia, where they firmly establish- 
ed themselves. Later they spread to India, Bactria, and 
as far as China. About 1400 the greater part of their 
churches perished under the persecutions of Timur, and 
in the sixteenth century a large part of the remainder 
joined the Roman Catholics. These are called Chalde- 
ans. See def. 2, and Nestorianism. 
2. One of a modern Christian body in Persia and 
Turkey, the remnant of the once powerful Nes- 
torian denomination. They number about 140,000, 
are subject to a patriarch (the patriarch of Urumiah) and 
eighteen bishops, recognize seven sacraments, administer 
communion in both kinds, and have many fasts. Another 
community of Nestorian origin still exists on the Malabar 
coast of India, but since the middle of the seventeenth 
century these are said to have become Monophysites. See 
Christians of St. Thomas, under Christian. 
The Persian kings were always more favourable to Nes- 
torians, as believing them to deny the True Divinity of our 
Lord. J. M. Keale, Eastern Church, i. 142. 
Nestorianism (nes-to'ri-an-izm), 11. [< Nes- 
torian + -ism.} In flkeoZ., the doctrine that in 
the God-man the two natures, the divine and 
the human, are not united in one person, and 
that consequently he possesses two distinct 
personalities. Nestorianism is at the opposite extreme 
of Christological doctrine from Monophysitism. It derives 
its name from Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in the 
fifth century, who was condemned by the third and fourth 
ecumenical councils (that of Ephesus in 431 and that of 
Chalcedon in 451) as promulgating teachings which in- 
volved this doctrine and as refusing to assent to the de- 
cision of the Ephesine Council. See Theotocos. 
As Eutychianism is the doctrine that the God-man has 
only the one nature, so Kestorianism is the doctrine that 
He has two complete persons. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 356. 
The celebrated school at Edessa . . . remained firm 
against the Arian heresy, hut gave way to Nestorianism 
about the time of Zeno. 
J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 127. 
Nestoridse (nes-tor'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Nestor 
+ -id(E.~\ A family of parrots represented by 
the genus Nestor, now peculiar to New Zealand. 
A. Newton. 
Nestorinae (nes-to-ri'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Nestor 
+ -MMC.] A subfamily of Fsittacidce, represented 
by the genus Nestor. 
nestorine (nes'to-rin), a. Of or having the 
or stakes for setting, etc. In some kinds of setriiets or 
weirs the staking or paling is so extensive in comparison 
with the netting that the contrivance is converted into a 
wooden trap, and is, in fact, called a trap. See MCI,*, t., 2. 
But as a brid, whiche woll alight 
And seeth the mete, but nought the nette. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., iii. 
And nets of various sorts, and various snares, 
The seine, the cast-net, and the wicker maze, 
To waste the watery tribes a thousand ways. 
Fawkes, tr. of Idylls of Theocritus, xxi. 
2. Figuratively, a snare or device for entrap- 
mental trap or entanglement. 
Hue were laht by the net so bryd is in snare. 
Flemish Insurrection (Child's Ballads, VI. 272). 
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, 
And out of her own goodness make the net 
That shall enmesh them all. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 367. 
Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw 
Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets. 
Milton, P. K., ii. 162. 
dery in giving less solid and uniform opaque surfaces, 
and in depending more upon the outline formed by a 
single thread. carried through the meshes. See darned 
netting, under netting. Diving-net, a net arranged some- 
what like a fyke, for taking rock-fish, perch, etc. [New 
Jersey.] Draft-net, a haul-seine. [New Jersey,] 
Drag-net a small seine dragged or hauled in shoal wa- 
ter, one end of the net being fastened in the mud by 
means of the staff. The drag-net is from 75 to 100 yards 
long, and 25 to 37 meshes deep, with a mesh of from 1J to 
2 inches. The lead-line is provided with heavy lead sink- 
ers, the cork-line with floats. Dredge-net. See rake- 
dredge. Drift-net, a flshing-net which drifts with the 
tide. Drift-nets are arranged on the same principle as 
gill-nets (see gill-net), except that they are allowed to drift 
about with the tide instead of being secured to stakes. 
They are shot or paid out from boats in a straight line, 
and kept perpendicular by buoys along the top and leads 
at the bottom, and are drawn out straight across the cur- 
rent by a boat rowed in the proper direction. Dutch 
nets. See gang. Glade net. See glade -net. Maltese 
net, in lace-making, a ground or reseau in which the Mal- 
tese cross appears, especially one consisting of octagons 
each inclosing a Maltese cross, and alternating with elon- 
gated hexagons and small triangles, producing a very 
complex pattern. Run net, darned netting of a simple 
sort in which the needlework is not elaborately stitched. 
A. S. Cole, Embroidery and Lace. To run the net, to 
feel for fish that may have been caught by handling the 
cork line of a net without further disturbing its set in 
the water; run the cork-line hand over hand. The strug- 
gling of the fish is readily felt in this way, and they are 
unbilled as soon as possible, that they may not injure 
noying insects: as, a mosquito-rift spread over drodictyon. 
abed. 4. Machine-made lace of many kinds. H. n . 1. Made of netting: as, a net fence. 
The varieties of machine-net formerly made were whip- 3 Resembling netting; having a structure 
net, mail-net, ^^^^^'^^cr-net, t >-n. which is like netting that is, one which has 
mesh employed, are "warp-net., point-net, and bobbin-net, open meshes, large in proportion to the thick- 
Broad net is woven as wide as the machine will allow, ness of the threads. 3. Caught in a net; net- 
QuUlings are narrow widths, several being made at one ted . Rg 1iet fl s ] 1- _4_ Reticulate or cancellate: 
time in the breadth of the machine. Fancy net has a gimp , ,,:.,*! ,!,- .. 
pattern worked in by hand (called lace-darning) or by the netted or net-veined, as an insect S wmgs.-Net 
Tarnnard attirhmpiit embroidery, (a) Decorative needlework done upon net 
Jacquaid attachment a8 fomldat * on ; ' (6) DeC orative work done upon net, but 
Here's a bit o net, then, for you to look at before I tie no( . Btrictly Iiee dlework, as muslin applique (which see, 
up my pack: . . . spotted and sprigged, you see, beauti- UI1 ,iertn.M) Net-mackerel. See mackerel^. 
ful, but yallow-'s been lyin' by an' got the wrong colour, "'if '"'',' \ . TjitS ufttnl rmr net Una 
George Eliot, Mill on the Floss, v. 2. net 1 (net), v. , piet. ana pp. lie ,<,, ppr. ne 
.,..,,,,. f< nefl, n.l I. trans. 1. To make as a net: 
5. A light open meshed bag for holding or con- L , J , 
fining the hair. Some are made of threads so 
fine that they are called invisible, nets. 
The hair is usually plaited down on each side of the face 
and inclosed in a net or cowl. Encyc. Brit., VI. 470. 
6. Anything formed with interstices or meshes 
like a net. 
fTets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for ne t WO rk, as any animal. Quadrupeds are not often 
the chapiters. 1 Ki. vn. 17. ne tted, traps or snares or guns being commonly used for 
their capture. Birds are netted in several different ways : 
. 
f form into a netti . mesh; 
knot O r weave in meshes. 
In mediffival times the vestments of the clergy fre- 
quently had netted coverings of silk. 
Drapers' Diet., p. 239. 
2. To capture or take with a net, as game; 
insnare, entangle, or entrap in or by means of 
Now on some twisted ivy-nft, 
Now by some tinkling rivulet, . . . 
Her cream-white mule his pastern set, 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Guinevere. 
7. In anat. and zool., a reticulation or cancel- 
lation; a network of anastomosing or inoscu- 
lating filaments or vessels; a web or mesh; a 
rete. 8. In math., a rectilinear figure drawn 
as follows. For a plane net, four points in a plane are 
assumed, and through pairs of them, and of points sub- 
sequently obtained as intersections of lines, straight lines 
are drawn. For a net in space, five points are assumed, 
through triads of which, and of points subsequently ob- 
characteristics of the Nestorinv; pertaining to L^as^ersectionsof KfiSVESSTK 
the genus Nestor. 
nest-pan (nest'pan), n. A moderately deep pan 
of earthenware, made of convenient size, in 
common use among pigeon-fanciers as a recep- 
tacle for the nests of their brooding birds. 
nest-spring (nest'spring), . A spiral spring 
having one or more coils of springs inclosed. 
net 1 (net), . and a. [< ME. net, < AS. net, nett 
= OS. itctti, net = OFries. nette, nitte = D. net 
Bag-and-stake net, a kind of net-weir similar to that 
form of seine sometimes used to take bluefish. In Eng- 
land the bag-and-stake nets are included in the law for- 
bidding the use of fixed engines for the capture of salmon. 
Massachusetts Keport (1866), p. 28. Baird net, a form 
of collecting-net: named from its designer, Prof. S. F. 
Baird. Bar-net, that part of a stake-net which is hung 
on stakes in a line at right angles with the shore, and with 
which the fish first come in contact. See stake-net. [Cana- 
da.] Brussels net. (a) The pillow-made ground of 
Brussels application lace. (6) A machine-made ground 
captu 
by springing a net over them ; by driving them into a 
winged and tunneled net, as ducks ; by the use of a hand- 
net on a pole, as in taking insects ; and by entangling them 
in the meshes of a spread net. Fishes, including shell- 
fish, are netted by every device which can be put into 
effect by means of network. The use of the net in these 
cases is, however, in one of two leading methods, en- 
tangling and inclosing. In the former of these, the fish 
swims against a vertical sheet of netting, finds the mesh 
too small to go through, and is caught by the gills in 
trying to back out. Insects are netted by collectors in 
one of two ways : with the butterfly-net, which is a very 
light bag of silk, gauze, etc., on a frame and pole; and 
with the beating-net, a bag of stout cloth or light canvas 
on a frame, with a short handle, used to beat or brush the 
grass and bushes. See nei, n. 
3. To take as if with a net; capture by arts, 
wiles, or stratagems; entangle in difficulty; 
beguile. 
And now I am here netted and in the toils. Scott. 
4. To put into or surround with a net for pro- 
tection or safe-keeping; hold in place by 
means of a net, as one's hair; veil or cover, as 
