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- English Word Netting Definition The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.
- English Word Netting Definition A piece of network; any fabric, made of cords, threads, wires, or the like, crossing one another with open spaces between.
- English Word Netting Definition A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding.
- English Word Netting Definition Urine.
- English Word Nettle Definition A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
- English Word Nettle Definition To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
- English Word Nettlebird Definition the European whitethroat.
- English Word Nettled Definition of Nettle
- English Word Nettler Definition One who nettles.
- English Word Nettles Definition The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
- English Word Nettles Definition Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
- English Word Nettles Definition Reef points.
- English Word Nettling Definition of Nettle
- English Word Nettling Definition A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.
- English Word Nettling Definition The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.
- English Word Nettling Definition Stinging; irritating.
- English Word Netty Definition Like a net, or network; netted.
- English Word Network Definition A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.
- English Word Network Definition Any system of lines or channels interlacing or crossing like the fabric of a net; as, a network of veins; a network of railroads.
- English Word Neura Definition of Neuron
- English Word Neurad Definition Toward the neural side; -- opposed to haemad.
- English Word Neural Definition relating to the nerves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal.
- English Word Neuralgia Definition A disease, the chief symptom of which is a very acute pain, exacerbating or intermitting, which follows the course of a nervous branch, extends to its ramifications, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion.
- English Word Neuralgic Definition Of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.
- English Word Neuralgy Definition Neuralgia.
- English Word Neurapophyses Definition of Neurapophysis
- English Word Neurapophysial Definition Of or pertaining to a neurapophysis.
- English Word Neurapophysis Definition One of the two lateral processes or elements which form the neural arch.
- English Word Neurapophysis Definition The dorsal process of the neural arch; neural spine; spinous process.
- English Word Neurasthenia Definition A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.