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- English Word Nerita Definition A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.
- English Word Nerite Definition Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.
- English Word Neritina Definition A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.
- English Word Nero Definition A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.
- English Word Neroli Definition An essential oil obtained by distillation from the flowers of the orange. It has a strong odor, and is used in perfumery, etc.
- English Word Neropteral Definition Of or pertaining to the Neuroptera.
- English Word Nerre Definition Nearer.
- English Word Nervate Definition Nerved.
- English Word Nervation Definition The arrangement of nerves and veins, especially those of leaves; neuration.
- English Word Nerve Definition One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body.
- English Word Nerve Definition A sinew or a tendon.
- English Word Nerve Definition Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor.
- English Word Nerve Definition Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution.
- English Word Nerve Definition Audacity; assurance.
- English Word Nerve Definition One of the principal fibrovascular bundles or ribs of a leaf, especially when these extend straight from the base or the midrib of the leaf.
- English Word Nerve Definition One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects.
- English Word Nerve Definition To give strength or vigor to; to supply with force; as, fear nerved his arm.
- English Word Nerve-shaken Definition Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.
- English Word Nerved Definition of Nerve
- English Word Nerved Definition Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.
- English Word Nerved Definition Having nerves, or simple and parallel ribs or veins.
- English Word Nerveless Definition Destitute of nerves.
- English Word Nerveless Definition Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
- English Word Nervelessness Definition The state of being nerveless.
- English Word Nervimotion Definition The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves.
- English Word Nervimotor Definition Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
- English Word Nervine Definition Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
- English Word Nervine Definition A nervine agent.
- English Word Nerving Definition of Nerve
- English Word Nervomuscular Definition Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.