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  • English Word Ninety Definition Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.
  • English Word Ninety Definition The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.
  • English Word Ninety Definition A symbol representing ninety units, as 90 or xc.
  • English Word Ninnies Definition of Ninny
  • English Word Ninny Definition A fool; a simpleton.
  • English Word Ninnyhammer Definition A simpleton; a silly person.
  • English Word Ninth Definition Following the eight and preceding the tenth; coming after eight others.
  • English Word Ninth Definition Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.
  • English Word Ninth Definition The quotient of one divided by nine; one of nine equal parts of a thing; the next after the eighth.
  • English Word Ninth Definition An interval containing an octave and a second.
  • English Word Ninth Definition A chord of the dominant seventh with the ninth added.
  • English Word Ninthly Definition In the ninth place.
  • English Word Ninut Definition The magpie.
  • English Word Niobate Definition Same as Columbate.
  • English Word Niobe Definition 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.
  • English Word Niobic Definition Same as Columbic.
  • English Word Niobite Definition Same as Columbite.
  • English Word Niobium Definition A later name of columbium. See Columbium.
  • English Word Niopo Definition A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.
  • English Word Nip Definition A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
  • English Word Nip Definition To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  • English Word Nip Definition To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  • English Word Nip Definition Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  • English Word Nip Definition To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
  • English Word Nip Definition A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
  • English Word Nip Definition A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  • English Word Nip Definition A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  • English Word Nip Definition A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  • English Word Nip Definition A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  • English Word Nip Definition A short turn in a rope.