Ninepence (n.) A New England name for the Spanish real, a coin formerly current in the United States, as valued at twelve and a half cents.
Ninepins (n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.
Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty.
Ninescore (n.) The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.
Nineteen (a.) Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.
Nineteen (n.) The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.
Nineteen (n.) A symbol for nineteen units, as 19 or xix.
Nineteenth (a.) Following the eighteenth and preceding the twentieth; coming after eighteen others.
Nineteenth (a.) Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Nineteenth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by nineteen; one of nineteen equal parts of anything.
Nineteenth (n.) The next in order after the eighteenth.
Nineteenth (n.) An interval of two octaves and a fifth.
Ninetieth (a.) Next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Ninetieth (a.) Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.
Ninetieth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by ninety; one of ninety equal parts of anything.
Ninetieth (n.) The next in order after the eighty-ninth.
Ninety (a.) Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
Nineties (pl. ) of Ninety
Ninety (n.) The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
Ninety (n.) A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
Ninnies (pl. ) of Ninny
Ninny (n.) A fool; a simpleton.
Ninnyhammer (n.) A simpleton; a silly person.
Ninth (a.) Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
Ninth (a.) Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.
Ninth (n.) The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
Ninth (n.) An interval containing an octave and a second.
Ninth (n.) A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
Ninthly (adv.) In the ninth place.
Ninut (n.) The magpie.
Niobate (n.) Same as Columbate.
Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
Niobic (a.) Same as Columbic.
Niobite (n.) Same as Columbite.
Niobium (n.) A later name of columbium. See Columbium.
Niopo (n.) A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.
Nip (n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
Nipped (imp. & p. p.) of Nip
Nipt () of Nip
Nipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nip
Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
Nip (v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
Nip (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
Nip (v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
Nip (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Nip (n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
Nip (n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
Nip (n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
Nip (n.) A short turn in a rope.
Nipper (n.) One who, or that which, nips.
Nipper (n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
Nipper (n.) A satirist.
Nipper (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
Nipper (n.) The cunner.
Nipper (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
Nipperkin (n.) A small cup.
Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
Nippers (n. pl.) A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
Nippers (n. pl.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
Nippingly (adv.) In a nipping manner.
Nippitate (a.) Peculiary strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor.
Nippitato (n.) Strong liquor.
Nipple (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Nipple (n.) The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
Nipple (n.) Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.
Nipple (n.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
Nipplewort (n.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.
Nirvana (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
Nis () Is not.
Nisan (n.) The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
Nyseys (pl. ) of Nisey
Nisey (n.) A simpleton.
Nisi (conj.) Unless; if not.
Niste () Wist not; knew not.
Nisus (n.) A striving; an effort; a conatus.
Nit (n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.
Nitency (n.) Brightness; luster.
Nitency (n.) Endeavor; rffort; tendency.
Niter (n.) Alt. of Nitre
Nitre (n.) A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.
Nitre (n.) Native sodium carbonate; natron.
Nithing (n.) See Niding.
Nitid (a.) Bright; lustrous; shining.
Nitid (a.) Gay; spruce; fine; -- said of persons.
Nitranilic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex organic acid produced as a white crystalline substance by the action of nitrous acid on hydroquinone.
Nitraniline (n.) Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.
Nitrate (n.) A salt of nitric acid.
Nitrated (a.) Combined, or impregnated, with nitric acid, or some of its compounds.
Nitrated (a.) Prepared with nitrate of silver.
Nitratine (n.) A mineral occurring in transparent crystals, usually of a white, sometimes of a reddish gray, or lemon-yellow, color; native sodium nitrate. It is used in making nitric acid and for manure. Called also soda niter.
Nitre (n.) See Niter.
Nitriary (n.) An artificial bed of animal matter for the manufacture of niter by nitrification. See Nitrification, 2.
Nitric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.
Nitride (n.) A binary compound of nitrogen with a more metallic element or radical; as, boric nitride.
Nitriferous (a.) Bearing niter; yielding, or containing, niter.
Nitrification (n.) The act, process, or result of combining with nitrogen or some of its compounds.
Nitrification (n.) The act or process of oxidizing nitrogen or its compounds so as to form nitrous or nitric acid.
Nitrification (n.) A process of oxidation, in which nitrogenous vegetable and animal matter in the presence of air, moisture, and some basic substances, as lime or alkali carbonate, is converted into nitrates.