1. An embassador from the pope to some catholic prince or state, or who attends some congress or assembly as the pope’s representative. NWAD NUNCIO.2
2. A messsenger; one who brings intelligence. NWAD NUNCIO.3
1. Nominal; existing only in name. NWAD NUNCUPATIVE.2
2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. NWAD NUNCUPATIVE.3
3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing. NWAD NUNCUPATIVE.4
1. Nominal; existing only in name. NWAD NUNCUPATORY.2
2. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. NWAD NUNCUPATORY.3
3. Verbal, not written. A nuncupative will or testament is one which is made by the verbal declaration of the testator, and depends merely on oral testimony for proof, though afterwards reduced to writing. NWAD NUNCUPATORY.4
1. Pertaining to a fair or to a market day. NWAD NUNDINAL.2
2. A nundinal letter, among the Romans, was one of the eight first letters of the alphabet, which were repeated successively from the first to the last dya of the year. One of these always expressed the market days, which returned every nine days. NWAD NUNDINAL.3
1. Pertaining to marriage; done at a wedding; as nuptial rites and ceremonies; nuptial torch. NWAD NUPTIAL.2
2. Constituting marriage; as the nuptial knot or band. NWAD NUPTIAL.3
The Bible has mitigated the horrors of war; it has given effectual obligation to the nuptial vow. NWAD NUPTIAL.4
1. A woman that has the care of infants, or a woman employed to tend the children of others. NWAD NURSE.2
2. A woman who suckles infants. NWAD NURSE.3
3. A woman that has the care of a sick person. NWAD NURSE.4
4. A man who has the care of the sick. NWAD NURSE.5
5. A person that breeds, educates or protects; hence, that which breeds, brings up or causes to grow; as Greece, the nurse of the liberal arts. NWAD NURSE.6
6. An old woman; in contempt. NWAD NURSE.7
7. The state of being nursed; as, to put a child to nurse. NWAD NURSE.8
8. In composition, that which supplies food; as a nurse-pond. NWAD NURSE.9
1. To tend, as infants; as, to nurse a child. NWAD NURSE.11
2. To suckle; to nourish at the breast. NWAD NURSE.12
3. To attend and take care of in child-bed; as, to nurse a woman in her illness. NWAD NURSE.13
4. To tend the sick; applied to males and females. NWAD NURSE.14
5. To feed; to maintain; to bring up. Isaiah 60:4. NWAD NURSE.15
6. To cherish; to foster; to encourage; to promote growth in. We say, to nurse a feeble animal or plant. NWAD NURSE.16
By what hands has vice been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion? NWAD NURSE.17
7. To manage with care and economy, with a view to increase; as, to nurse our national resources. NWAD NURSE.18
1. The place or apartment in a house appropriated to the care of children. NWAD NURSERY.2
2. A place where young trees are propagated for the purpose of being transplanted; a plantation of young trees. NWAD NURSERY.3
3. The place where any thing is fostered and the growth promoted. NWAD NURSERY.4
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts. NWAD NURSERY.5
So we say, a nursery of thieves or of rogues. Ale houses and dram-shops are the nurseries of intemperance. NWAD NURSERY.6
Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven. NWAD NURSERY.7
4. Taht which forms and educates. Commerce is the nursery of seamen. NWAD NURSERY.8
5. The act of nursing. [Little used.] NWAD NURSERY.9
6. That which is the object of a nurse’s care. NWAD NURSERY.10
1. An infant; a child. NWAD NURSLING.2
2. One that is nursed. NWAD NURSLING.3
1. That which nourishes; food; diet. NWAD NURTURE.2
2. That which promotes growth; education; instruction. Ephesians 6:4. NWAD NURTURE.3
1. To feed; to nourish. NWAD NURTURE.5
2. To educate; to bring or train up. NWAD NURTURE.6
He was nurtured where he was born. NWAD NURTURE.7
1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pericarp of the fruit. Various kinds of nuts are distinguished; as walnut, chestnut, hazlenut, butternut. NWAD NUT.2
2. In mechanics, a small cylinder or other body, with teeth or projections corresponding with the teeth or grooves of a wheel. NWAD NUT.3
3. The projection near the eye of an anchor. NWAD NUT.4
1. An instrument for cracking nuts. NWAD NUT-CRACKER.2
2. A bird of the genus Corvus; the nut-breaker. NWAD NUT-CRACKER.3
1. That which nourishes; that which promotes the growth or repairs the natural waste of animal bodies, or that which promotes the growth of vegetables; food; aliment. NWAD NUTRIMENT.2
2. That which promotes enlargement or improvement; as the nutriment of the mind. NWAD NUTRIMENT.3
1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables. NWAD NUTRITION.2
2. That which nourishes; nutriment. NWAD NUTRITION.3
Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. NWAD NUTRITION.4
There is no nutrition in ardent spirits. NWAD NUTRITION.5
1. The hard shell of a nut; the covering of the kernel. NWAD NUT-SHELL.2
2. Proverbially, a thing of little compass or of little value. NWAD NUT-SHELL.3
1. One that sees best in the night. NWAD NYCTALOPS.2
2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning. NWAD NYCTALOPS.3
1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds. NWAD NYCTALOPY.2
2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sight as night approaches, and remains blind till morning. NWAD NYCTALOPY.3
1. In mythology, a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows and waters. According to the ancients, all the world was full of nymphs, some terrestrial, others celestial; and these had names assigned to them according to their place of residence, or the parts of the world over which they were supposed to preside. NWAD NYMPH.2
2. In poetry, a lady. NWAD NYMPH.3