netted 
I make the netted sunbeam dance 
Against my sandy shallows. 
Tennyaoii, The Brook. 
2. Covered or provided with a net: as, a, netted 
window. 3. Caught in a net, as fish; kept in a 
net, as turtles for sale. 4. Covered or marked 
with a network of intersecting lines; reticulate ; 
cancellated : as, the netted wings of a dragon-fly. 
5. Forming a network; intersecting: as, the 
netted veins of an insect's wings. 
netted-carpet (net'ed-kar"pet), H. A moth, 
Cidaria reticiilnta, 
netted-veined (net'ed-yand), (i. In lot., hav- 
ing a reticulated venation; traversed by fine 
nerves (nervilles) disposed like the threads of 
a net, a character common to most dicotyledons 
and rarely occurring in other plants. See nerva- 
tion. 
netter (net'er), n. One who makes or uses nets. 
The only persons interested in the trade are the export- 
ers, and the netters and snarers employed by them. 
Quarterly Rev., CXLVI. 89. 
nettiet, An obsolete variant of natty. 
netting (net ' ing), n. [Verbal n. of nefl, ?'.] 
1. A net; a piece of network, as of cord or 
wire ; an openwork fabric, as for a hammock, a 
screen, etc. Specifically (a) A fine light fabric, as of 
gauze or muslin: as, mosqviito-nettijig. (b)pl. Naval: (1) 
A network of ropes formerly stretched along the upper 
part of a ship's quarter to hold hammocks when not in 
use : hence sometimes called hammock-nettings. The name 
hammock-nellinys is still applied to the wooden or iron 
compartments or boxes on the upper railing of a ship, 
although the nettings have not been used for many years. 
(2) A stout network ol wire or rope stretched around a ship 
above the rail during an engagement, to keep off boarders : 
hence called boarding-nettings. (3) A network of light rope 
stretched over a ship's deck during an engagement, to pre- 
vent injuries from falling spars, splinters, etc.: specifical- 
ly called splinter-nettings. 
2. The art or process of making nets or net- 
work; net-makiug Darned netting, an imitation 
of darned lace made by embroidering with a darning- 
stitch upon plain netting, and much used for window-cur- 
tains and the like, which are often called lace curtains, 
etc. Diamond netting, netting of the plainest kind, 
in which the meshes are of uniform size, and square or 
lozenge-shaped. Grecian netting, a kind of netting 
used for making small articles of silk, and larger articles, 
such as curtains, of cotton. It consists of flat meshes of 
two different sizes. Diet. Needlework. Mignonette net- 
ting. See mignonette. 
netting-machine (net'ing-ma-shen"), n. 1. A 
net-loom. 2. A machine by means of which 
the action of the hands in netting is imitated, 
and a fabric is produced secured by knots at the 
intersections of the lines. In general, the name net- 
ting-machine is given to any machine producing the net 
or background of lace. 
netting-needle (net'ing-ne"dl), . A kind of 
shuttle used 
in netting. 
Nettion(net'- 
i-on),. [NL., 
< Gr. vi/TTiav, 
a duckling, 
Ancient Egyptian Netting-needles. 
dim. of vijrra, a duck: see Anas."] A genus of 
very small and pretty ducks of the family Ana- 
tida; and the subfamily Anatinie, containing 
such as N. crecca of Europe and the similar 
N. carolmetms of North America; the greeii- 
winged teals. See teal. 
nettle 1 (net'l), n. [< ME. nettle, netle, < AS. 
netele, netle = D. netel = MLG. netele. nettele 
= OHG. nezzila, nezila, MHG. nezzel, G. nessel 
= Dan. nelde (for *>tedle) = Sw. nassla (after 
G., the reg. form being *natla) ; with dim. suf- 
Upper Part of a Fruiting Stem of Nettle (Urlica tHnfea). 
, the male flower; b, the female flower; t. a stinging hair, taken 
from tin: leaf, highly magnified. 
3970 
fix -el (-In), from a simple form seen in OHG. 
n<i;;a, a nettle ; root unknown ; perhaps con- 
nected with Me* 1 . The OPruss. notitix, Lith. no- 
tere, Ir. nenaiil, nettle, appear to be unrelated. 
Skeat assumes an orig. initial It, and com- 
pares Gr. KviSri, a nettle, andE. itifi (AS. hnitu); 
but if there were an orig. initial It, it would 
appear in OHG. and AS., as in other cases.] 1. 
A herbaceous plant of the genus Urtica, armed 
with stinging hairs. U. diaim is the common, great, or 
stinging nettle, native in the northern Old World, natural- 
ized in the United States and elsewhere. This plant is 
now somewhat cultivated in Germany for its fiber, which, 
properly dressed, is fine and silky. The tender shoots are 
not unfrequently used as a pot-herb. This and the small 
nettle, A/, urens, were formerly in use as diuretics and as- 
tringents. The Koman nettle of southern Europe is U.pi- 
Inlifera. U. cannalrina of Siberia is locally utilized as a 
fiber-plant 
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 8. 10. 
The Earth doth not always produce Roses and Lilies, 
but she brings forth also Settles and Thistles. 
HoiveU, Letters, I. vi. 57. 
2. One of several plants of other genera of the 
nettle family ( Urticaccie); any nettle-like plant : 
generally with a qualifying word chill nettle 
See Loasece. False nettle, Bcet,meria cylindrica, [U. S.j 
In dock, out nettle. See rfo<*i . Neilgherry nettle, 
the East Indian Girardinia (Urtica) heterophytta. It yields 
a fine white and glossy strong liber, locally important. 
Nettle broth, nettle porridge, a dish made with nettles 
cut early in the season before they show any flowers. 
There we did eat some nettle porrige, which was made 
on purpose to-day for some of their coming, and was very 
good. Pepys, Diary, Feb. 27, 1661. 
nettle 1 (uet'l), v. t. ; pret. and pp. nettled, ppr. 
nettling. [< ME. netlen; < nettlei, .] Testing; 
irritate or vex ; provoke ; pique. 
I am whipp'd and scourged with rods, 
Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear 
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke. 
Shale., 1 Hen. IV., i. 3. 240. 
She hath so nettled the King that all the doctors in the 
country will scarce cure him. 
Beau, and Fl., Philaster, ii. 4. 
Nay, I know this nettles you now ; but answer me, is it 
not true? B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. 
She was not a little nettled at this my civility, which 
passed over her head. Steele, Lover, No. 7. 
I, tho' nettled that he seemed to slur 
With garrulous ease and oily courtesies 
Our formal compact, yet, not less, . . . 
Went forth again with both my friends. 
Tennyson, Princess, i. 
nettle 2 (uet'l), n. A'aut., same as knittle, 2. 
nettle-bird (net'1-berd), n. A little bird which 
creeps about hedges among the nettles, as the 
whitethroat, Sylvia cinerea, or the blackcap, S. 
atricapilla. [Local, Eng.] 
nettle-blight (net'1-bllt), n. The JEeidium urti- 
cie, a parasitic fungus common on nettles, 
nettle-butterfly (net'l-but"er-fli), n. A com- 
mon European butterfly, Vanessa urticai. The 
cosmopolitan Pyrameis cardui and P. atalanta, whose 
larva) feed on nettles, are also sometimes known by this 
name. 
nettle-cell (net'1-sel), n. A stinging-cell or 
thread-cell, one of the urtieating organs of a 
nettle-fish ; a cnida or nematocyst. 
nettle-cloth (net'l-kloth), n. A thick cotton 
cloth which, when japanned, is used instead of 
leather for waist-belts, vizors for caps, etc. 
nettle-creeper (net'l-kre"per), . Same as 
nettle-bird. 
nettle-fever (net'l-fe"ver), n. Urticaria, 
nettle-fish (net'1-fish), n. A jelly-fish ; a sea- 
nettle : so called from its stinging or urtieating. 
nettle-geranium (net'l-je-ra"ni-um), n. See 
<jera ilium. 
nettle-leaf (net'1-lef), n. In her., a leaf of or- 
dinary rounded form but with the edge very 
deeply serrated in long sharp points, 
nettle-monger (net'l-mung' f 'ger), n. Same as 
nettle-bird. 
nettler (net'ler), n. [< nettle^ + -crl.] One 
who or that which stings, provokes, or irritates. 
These are the nettlers, these are the blabbing Books that 
tell, though not half e, your fellows' feats. 
Milton, On Def. of Humb. Eemonst. 
nettle-rash (net'1-rash), n. An eruption on the 
skin like that produced by the sting of a net- 
tle ; urticaria. 
nettle-springe (net'l-sprinj), . The nettle- 
rash. HaUiwcll [Prov. Eng.] 
nettle-Stuff (net'1-stuf), n. Naut., a thin twist 
of two or three yarns, laid up or twisted by 
hand, and rubbed smooth. It is used for ham- 
mock-clues and stops, 
nettle-tap (net'1-tap), -. A moth, SimaelMx 
Jiiliririniifi. 
nettle-thread (net'l-thred), n. One of the 
stinging hairs of acalephs ; a cnidocil. 
neume 
nettle-tree (net'1-tre), . 1. A tree of the ge- 
nus Celt is of the nettle family, chiefly the Old 
World species C. australis and the North Amer- 
ican C. occidental i>s : so named from the aspect 
of the leaves. The former is a desirable shade-tree, and 
its yellow-tinged wood is hard, dense, and fine-grained, 
suitable especially for turning and carving. Wee hackberry 
and lotus tree, 2. 
2. An Australian tree of the genus Laportea. 
Two species, L. yigas and L. photiniphylla, are large trees, 
more or less stinging ; a third, L. moroides, is a small tree, 
the stinging hairs extremely virulent. Also tree-nettle. 
Jamaica nettle- tree, Trema (Sponia) micrantha. 
nettlewort (net'1-wert), 11. [< nettle^ + wort 1 .] 
A plant of the nettle family ( Crticaceie). 
nettling (net'ling), n. [< nettle 2 + -ing 1 .'} In 
rope-making: (a) A method of spinning ortwist- 
ing together the ends of two ropes so as to unite 
them with a seamless joint. (6) A system of 
tying in pairs the yarns when they are laid on 
the posts in a ropewalk, in order to prevent en- 
tanglement or confusion. 
netty (net'i), a. [< net! + -y 1 .] Resembling 
a net; interlaced or interwoven like network; 
netted. 
This reticulate or net-work was also considerable in the 
inward parts of man, not onely from the first subtegmen, 
or warp of his formation, but in the netty fibers of the 
veins and vessels of life. 
Sir T. Browne, Garden of Cyrus, iii. 
net-veined (net'vand), a. 1. In entont., display- 
ing numerous veins or nerviires tending to form 
a more or less confused network on the surface, 
the principal longitudinal veins being almost 
lost, as in the wings of certain Hemintcra and 
many Orthoptera : opposed to parallel-veined. 
2. In bot., same as netted-rcimtl. 
net-winged (uet'wingd), . In entom., having 
netted or net-veined wings ; specifically, neu- 
ropterous. 
network (net'werk), n. 1. Anything formed 
in the manner or presenting the appearance of 
a net or of netting; work made of intersecting 
lines which form meshes or open spaces like 
those of a net ; an openwork or reticulated fab- 
ric, structure, or appearance; interlacement; 
technically, anastomosis; inosculation; rete: 
as, a network of veins or nerves ; a network of 
railways. See cut under Intticeleaf. 
Her hair, which is plaited in bands within golden net- 
work, is surmounted by a truly beautiful crown. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 469. 
The woven leaves 
Make net-ii'ork of the dark-blue light of day. 
Shelley, Alastor. 
2. Netting decorated with darned work or other 
needlework. Compare net embroidery, under 
net 1 . 3. Work in metal or other tenacious 
and ductile material resembling a net in having 
large openings divided by slender solid parts. 
Compare fretwork. 
Beautiful net-work of perforated steel. 
Hamilton Sale Cat., 1882, No. 985. 
Darned network, (a) Same as darned netting. (6) Or- 
namental threadwork used as a ground for various kinds 
of embroidery, especially when a set of parallel threads are 
made into a netting by other threads worked across them 
with the needle. 
neuettet, . An old spelling of newt. 
neuft, n. An error for neif. See neaf. 
Neufchatel cheese. See cheese^-. 
neuftt, . An obsolete variant of newt. 
neuk (nuk), n. A Scotch form of nook. 
neuma (nu'ma), . [ML. : see neume.'] Same 
as neume. 
neumatic (nu-mat'ik), a. [< neume + -alii-. 
Cf. pneumatic.] In music, of or pertaining to 
neumes Neumatic notation. See notation. 
neume (num), n. [< ME. neume, newme, neme, 
< OF. neume, "a sound, song, or close of song 
after an anthem" (Cotgrave), < ML. pneunia, 
also neupma, neuma, a song, a sign in music, 
< Gr. wvev/ia, breath, breathing: see pnevmu. 
In the sense of ' sign,' some compare Gr. veil/to, 
a nod.] If. Modulation of the voice in sing- 
ing. Nominate MS. (Hal/iirell.) 
Neuine [var. nevme, neme] of a songe, nenpma. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 366. 
2. In music: (a) A sign or character used in 
early medieval music to indicate a tone or a 
phrase. A large number of these characters were used, 
more or less complicated in form and meaning. They were 
first written alone over the text to be sung, but soon one 
and then two or more horizontal lines were added to in- 
dicate some fixed pitch, as F or ('. Neumes were in use as 
early as the eighth century ; their origin is obscure. They 
\vere UK- first important step toward a graphic musical 
notation in which relative pitch should be indicated by 
relative position on a page. They passed over gradually 
into the more definite ligatures and the staff-notation at 
later times. The earlier examples cannot be deciphered 
with entire certainty. (/,) A melodic phrase or 
