newsless 
newsless(nuz'les), . [<<* + -fr-.v.v.l With- 
out news iif information. 
I Hlu iw iirtt-itle&i IIH In the dead of Hummer. 
Walpole, Letters, II. 407. 
news-lettert (nu/.'let 'IT), . A letter or report 
contninin;; news intended for general circula- 
tion, originally circulated in nianiiseripi. Tin 
m-wH-U'ttcr* were the precursors of the later newspapers. 
Thi'y appear to have arisen atxmt the cointnenceinrnt of 
On- seventeenth crntury, t li;i\r irnrhr-l *| ( r.-i:il |M.HI 
ni'Mire about the time of Charles II.. and to have continued 
to the middle of the eighteenth century. 
I love News extreamly. I have read Three Neict Letter* 
to day. I go from Cotfee House to Coffee House all day 
on Purpose. 
Quoted in Ashtoii's Social Life in Kelgnof Uueen Anne, 
II. "111. 
The first English journalists were the writers of neicg- 
letters, originally the dependants of great men, each em- 
ployed in keeping his own master or patron well-inform- 
ed, during his absence from court of all that transpired 
there. Eneye. Hrit., XVII. 4i;t. 
newsman (nuz'mau), n. ; pi. newsmen (-men). 
A man who sells or delivers newspapers. 
newsmonger (nuz'inung'ger), n. A person who 
deals in news ; one who employs much time in 
hearing and telling news ; a retailer of gossip. 
Many tales devised . . . 
By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmongers. 
SAn*.,lHen. IV., ill. 2.25. 
It IB not worth the making a schism betwixt newimon- 
."<'.- to set up an antifame against [a ridiculous report]. 
Fuller, Holy Staff, i& 23. 
newsmongeryt (nuz'mung*ger-i), n. [< news- 
monger + -y (see -ery).] The act of dealing in 
news ; the retailing of news or gossip. 
Wilt thou . . . invest that iu the highest throne of art 
and scholarship which a scrutinie of so nianie millions 
of wel discerning condemnations hath concluded to be 
viler then news mongeryf Nash, Foure Letters Confuted. 
news-pamphlet (nuz'pamf'let), . Formerly, 
a publication issued occasionally when any spe- 
cial event seemed to call for it. Such pamph- 
lets were precursors of newspapers, and ap- 
peared especially in the sixteenth century. 
newspaper (nuz'pa'per), n. A paper contain- 
ing news; a sheet containing intelligence or 
reports of passing events, issued at short but 
regular intervals, and either sold or distribut- 
ed gratis; a public print, or daily, weekly, or 
semi-weekly periodical, that presents the news 
of the day, such as the doings of political, legis- 
lative, or other public bodies, local, provincial, 
or national current events, items of public in- 
terest on science, religion, commerce, as well 
as trade, market, and money reports, advertise- 
mentsand announcements, etc. Newspapers may 
be classed as general, devoted to the dissemination of 
Intelligence on a great variety of topics which are of in- 
terest to the general reader, or special, in which some par- 
ticular subject, as religion, temperance, literature, law, 
etc. , has prominence, general news occupying only a sec- 
ondary place. The first English newspaper is believed to 
be the " Weekly News," issued in London in 1622. The 
beginnings of newspapers in Germany and Italy are said 
to reach back to the sixteenth century, although it is 
often stated that the oldest newspaper is the "Frank- 
furter Journal," founded iu 1615. In the United States 
" Publick Occurrences " was started in Boston in 1690, but 
was suppressed; the Boston " News- Letter " followed in 
1704 ; but the oldest existing newspaper in the country is 
the "New Hampshire Gazette," founded in 1756. 
This month, a certain great Person will be threatened 
with death or sickness. This the News Paper will tell 
them. Isaac Bickerstaff, Predictions for the Year 1708. 
There now exist but two newspaj>ers which were in being 
in Queen Anne's reign, namely the " London Gazette " (but 
that has been kept alive through its official nursing) and 
but one due to private enterprise Berrow's "Worces- 
ter Journal," which was established in 1709. 
.' . Aihton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 66. 
newspaper-Clamp (nuz'pa'per-klamp), n. A 
newspaper-file. 
newspaperdom(iiiiz'pa'per-dum), H. [< news- 
/Hi/icr -r -rfow.] The realm of newspapers; 
newspaper life. The Writer, III. 126. [Colloq.] 
newspaper-file (nuz'pa'per-fil), n. A frame 
for holding newspapers ready for convenient 
reference. It is made in several forms, but consists in 
general of a pair of rods hinged at one end, which are 
opened to receive between them the middle fold of the 
newspaper sheet, and then shut and fastened by means 
of a hook or screw at the end opposite the hinge, so as to 
hold the paper in the frame. Also called a paper-file or 
paper-clamp. 
newsroom (nu/.'riiin), n. A room where news- 
papers, and often also magazines, reviews, etc., 
are kept on file for reading; a reading-room. 
news-vender (nuz'ven'der), n. A seller of 
newspapers. 
Newspapers in London are sold by the publishers to 
newsmen or newscemiers. by whom they are distributed to 
the purchasers in lown or i-ountrv. 
M'Culloch, Diet. Commercf. 
news-writer (nuz'ri'ter), n. A writer of or for 
news-letters. 
I am amazed that the press hlumlii he only made use of 
in this way by neics-imtm, and the zealots of parties 
Spectator, No. ]"i. 
newsy (nii'zi), . (</, -f-yi.] Fullofnews; 
gossipy. [Colloi|.] 
An organ nrirsy, piquant, and attractive. F. Locker. 
news-yacht (nu/.'yoti, . A fast-sailing craft 
formerly employed by the publishers of news- 
papers for such service as intercepting incom- 
ing ships, iu order to obtain news in advance of 
their arrival in port. 
The steamships Bavaria . . . ami tin-china . . . passed 
this point at 11 o'clock this morning, and were boarded by 
thr IK -ir.*- 1/(7(* of the press. 
year York Tribune, June 16, 1862. 
newt (nut), . (X ME. newte, an erroneous form 
ilnc to tnisdivision of an ewte; etcte, ettete, etc., 
Ix'ing the same as eret, eft: see eft*.'] A tailed 
batrachian ; an animal of the genus Iriinn in 
a broad sense, as T. cristatux, the great warty 
Crested Newt ( Triton crittatus}. 
or crested newt, or T. (Lissotriton) punctatug, 
the common smooth newt; an eft; anasker; a 
frit on. They begin life as tadpoles hatched from eggs, 
Inn never lose the tail. They are harmless and inoffen- 
sive little creatures, from 3 to 6 Inches long, living in 
ponds and ditches, sometimes crawling out of the water 
in damp places ; they live on animal food, as water-Insects 
and their larvie, worms, tadpoles, etc. The name ia ex- 
tended to any similar batrachian of small size, as one of 
the AmWystvmidce, I'Uthodontidtt, Salamandrida, etc. 
Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong, 
Come not near our fairy queen. 
Shalt., M. N. D., 1L 2. 11. 
Blind newts, the C&ciliidct. 
Newtonian (uu-to'ni-an), n. and n. [< Newton 
(see def. ) + -ian.~\ I. "n. Pertaining to Sir Isaac 
Newton (1642-1727), or formed or discovered 
by him Kewtonlan criterion. Seecrtterion. New- 
tonian philosophy, the doctrine of Newton that thechief 
phenomena of the heavens are due to an attraction of gravi- 
tation, and that similar attractions explain many molecu- 
lar phenomena. Newtonian potential, a potential vary- 
ing inversely as the distance.like that of gravitation. 
. Newtonian system. See x<>l<u- nfttrw, under solar. 
Newtonian telescope. See telescope. Newtonian 
theory of light. See Kght\, 1. 
II, n. 1. Afollowerof Newton in philosophy. 
2. A Newtonian reflecting telescope. 
The result was a Newtonian of exquisite definition, with 
an aperture of two, and a focal length of twenty feet. 
.1. -V. Clerke, Astron. in 19th Cent., p. 109. 
Newtonic (nu-ton'ik), a. [< Aincfem (see Xew- 
liiiiiini) + -ic.] 8ame as Keirtonian Newtonic 
rays, the visible rays of the spectrum. See spectrum, 
First, we have the visible rays of medium refrangibility, 
ranging from red to violet, and sometimes called the New- 
tonic rays. J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 19. 
Newton's color-diagram, diagram, disk. See 
colo)'-(li(t(/i'nt, etc. 
Newton's law of cooling. See law*. 
Newton's metal. See metal. 
New-year (nu'yeV), n. [Early mod. E. also 
\rirr Ycrre, etc.; <ME. new yere, new %er, etc., 
< AS. iwe gear, new year: see new and year.} 
I. n. 1. The year approaching or newly begun : 
as. it is common to make good resolutions for 
the Xeic-year. 2. New-\ ear's day; the first 
day of the year. 
For hit is 30! [Vulej and mre jer. 
Sir Oaunyne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 284. 
For I would see the sun rise upon the glad yew-year. 
Tennyson, May Queen, New- Year's Eve. 
3t. A congratulation or good wish for the com- 
ing year. 
A scholler presented a gratulatorie nric-yerre unto sir 
Thomas Moore in prose, and he reading it ... ask'd him 
whether hee could turne it into verse? 
Copley, Wits, Kits, and Fancies. (Nares.) 
New- Year's day, the tlrst day of the New-year: tln> 
nrxt lay "f .fanuary. In m:uiy countries the day is a legal 
hnliii:i\. .unl is < , iriinitt'd by the giving of presents and 
irrm-r:il ffstivitii s. 
-Vfic Year's Day, however, was his | Peter Stuyvesant's) 
favorite festival. Ining, Knickerbocker, p. 403. 
next 
New-Yorker ( nu-yor'ker), . [< New York (see 
ilcf.) + -</'.] A native or an inhabitant of 
tin- State or <'ity of New York. 
New York fern. A common shicid-tvn. 
l>nliiiiii \<>i-i hiii-ni-i ii.-i . of tin- eastern t'niti-il 
States. 
New York godwit. See </</in/. 
New-Zealand falcon, flax, subregion, etc. 
SIT iiltntu. etf. 
nexa'llnek'sal). . [<<./(,) + -/.] In Horn. 
Imr, involving or exacting servitude for debt. 
l',v ni the nexal creditor's imprisonment of his defaulting 
ili-lilor, . . . which was not abolished until the fifth ci'ntiiry 
of tlic city, may not unfittingly, in view of tin- rrm-llii's 
that too often attended it, be said to have savoured more 
of private vengeance than either punishment or procedure 
In reparation. Kncyc. Brit., XX. 876. 
Nexal contract, the contract by which a debtor who was 
unable t<> pny iHiiind himself an if he were a ilave to his 
creditor. See nexutn. 
The I'li'tilian law of 42M, abolishing the nrxol contract. 
Kncyc. Brit., XX. 881. 
nexi. . Plural of nexus?. 
nexible (nek'si-bl), . [< LL. nexibilis, tied or 
bound together, < L. nectere, pp. nexus, tie 
together, interlace. Cf. anneet, i-imnn-t. etc.] 
Capable of being knitted together. Bloutit. 
[Rare.] 
next (nekst), arfc. and prep. [< ME. next, necst, 
nest, < AS. nehst, nylmt, next, nedhst = OS. ndlitxt 
= OFries. nest = OHO. nahont, naliist, MHG. 
iidltegt, na'hest, inehyt, ndst, niist, G. nahett = 
Sw. Hiiit = Dan. imxt. next, nearest, uighest, 
superl. of nedh, nigh: see nigh, of whicn next 
is simply the older superlative. Cf. near 1 , the 
older comparative of niyli.'] I. ade. 1. Nighest; 
nearest; in the place, position, rank, or turn 
which is nearest: as, next before; next after 
you. 
Nothing will bring them from theyr uncivil! life sooner 
then learning and discipline, next after the knowledge and 
f care of God. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
Before you, and next unto high heaven, 
I love your son. Shalt., All's Well, I. 8. 199. 
Who knows not that Truth Is strong next to the Al- 
mighty? MiUon, Areopagitica, p. 52. 
2. In theplace or turn immediately succeed- 
ing: as, Who comes nextt 
What Impossible matter will he make easy next? 
Shak., Tempest, ii. 1. 89. 
Our men with what came /(/-/ to hand were forced to 
make their passage among them. 
Quoted in ('apt. John Smith's Works, I. 101. 
Next, her white hand an antique goblet brings 
A goblet sacred to the Pylian kings. 
Pope, Iliad, xl. 772. 
Next to. (a) Immediately after; as second In choice or 
consideration. 
Next to the statues, there Is nothing In Rome more sur- 
prising than that amazing variety of ancient pillars of so 
many kinds of marble. 
Addison, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 476. 
They were never either heard or talked of which, next 
tn being universally applauded, should be the object of 
ambition of all magistrates and rulers. 
Irrimj, Knickerbocker, p. 148. 
(Ii) Almost; within a little of being : as, next to nothing. 
That 's a difficulty next to Impossible. Kmre. 
The Puritans . . . forgot, or never knew, that it [cleri- 
cal subscription] was invented, or next to invented, by the 
episcopal founder of Nonconformity. 
R. W. Dixon, Hist. Church of Eng., xx. 
What is a sad thing is that one man should be dining 
off turtle and ortolans, and another man have next to no 
dinner at all. W. II. Mattock, Social Equality, p. 203. 
Next to nothing. See nothiny. 
II. prep. Nearest to; immediately adjacent 
to. ("Nigh," "near," "next" . . . may be regarded In 
construction as prepositions, or as adjectives with the prep- 
osition "to" understood. Angus, Handbook of the Eng- 
lish Tongue, p. 234. 1 
next (nekst), a. [< ME. nexte (also itfst, > E. 
dial, neest, Sc. neist), < AS. nexta, nehxta, nyhnta 
(= OS. nahisto = OPries. nente = OHG. nahixto, 
MHG. ndheste, nteheste, n(?hst, G. nahrxt, lu'irhxt 
= Sw. ndst = Dan. tuest), next, nighest, < nehst, 
adv., superl. of nedh, nigh: see next, adr. Cf. 
iiii/lt, .] 1. Nighest; nearest in place or posi- 
tion; adjoining: as, the next town; the next 
room. 
I have been with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the 
next village. Shot. , As you Like It, IU. S. 44. 
2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; im- 
mediately succeeding: as, advise me in your 
wrj-Mctti-r: ii'j-ttime; next month. 
The nexten tune that It play'd seen . . . 
Was "Fareweel to my mither the queen." 
The Twa Sisters (Child's Ballads, II. 243). 
Pray let it appear In your arxt what a Proficient you 
are. otherwise some Blame may light on me that placed 
you thi'tv. Hinrell, Letters, I. v. 28. 
