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- English Word Niagara period Definition A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
- English Word Nias Definition A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person.
- English Word Nib Definition A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
- English Word Nib Definition The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
- English Word Nib Definition The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.
- English Word Nib Definition One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.
- English Word Nib Definition To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.
- English Word Nibbed Definition Having a nib or point.
- English Word Nibbing Definition of Nib
- English Word Nibble Definition To bite by little at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits.
- English Word Nibble Definition To bite upon something gently or cautiously; to eat a little of a thing, as by taking small bits cautiously; as, fishes nibble at the bait.
- English Word Nibble Definition A small or cautious bite.
- English Word Nibbled Definition of Nibble
- English Word Nibbler Definition One who, or that which, nibbles.
- English Word Nibbling Definition of Nibble
- English Word Nibblingly Definition In a nibbling manner; cautiously.
- English Word Niblick Definition A kind of golf stick used to lift the ball out of holes, ruts, etc.
- English Word Nicagua Definition The laughing falcon. See under laughing.
- English Word Nicaragua wood Definition Brazil wood.
- English Word Niccolite Definition A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.