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  • English Word Nep Definition Catnip.
  • English Word Nepa Definition A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.
  • English Word Nepaulese Definition Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan.
  • English Word Nepaulese Definition A native or natives of Nepaul.
  • English Word Nepenthe Definition A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
  • English Word Nepenthes Definition Same as Nepenthe.
  • English Word Nepenthes Definition A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.
  • English Word Nepeta Definition A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.
  • English Word Nephalism Definition Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
  • English Word Nephalist Definition One who advocates or practices nephalism.
  • English Word Nepheline Definition Alt. of Nephelite
  • English Word Nephelite Definition A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elaeolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.
  • English Word Nephelodometer Definition An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.
  • English Word Nephelometer Definition An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.
  • English Word Nephew Definition A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant.
  • English Word Nephew Definition A cousin.
  • English Word Nephew Definition The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
  • English Word Nephilim Definition Giants.
  • English Word Nephoscope Definition An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.
  • English Word Nephralgia Definition Alt. of Nephralgy
  • English Word Nephralgy Definition Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter.
  • English Word Nephridia Definition of Nephridium
  • English Word Nephridial Definition Of or pertaining to a nephridium.
  • English Word Nephridium Definition A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.
  • English Word Nephrite Definition A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.
  • English Word Nephritic Definition Alt. of Nephritical
  • English Word Nephritic Definition A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.
  • English Word Nephritical Definition Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.
  • English Word Nephritical Definition Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.
  • English Word Nephritical Definition Relieving disorders of the kidneys; affecting the kidneys; as, a nephritic medicine.