Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: navigation – Nebo
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navigation, n. [Fr. < L. 'to sail'.]
- Journey; migration; exploration; flight through air.
- Piloting; sailing; gradual descent; systematic movement.
navy (navies), n. [OFr < L. 'ship'.]
- Company of sailors; group of mariners; [fig.] flock; troop.
- Boat; ship; galleon; water-born vessel.
- Fleet of vessels; ships of war belonging to a country; [fig.] sunset; dark-blue dusk.
nay, adv. [ON, ne + ei, not ever.]
- Assuredly; certainly; beyond doubt.
- Not only this; in other words; [suggesting that something is to be added by way of amplification.]
- No; absolutely not; I deny; I refuse; [expressing negation.]
- More precisely; [emphatic statement than the one first made.]
Nazarene, proper n. [Gk Nazōraios, inhabitant of Nazareth < Heb. nzr, separate, prince.] (webplay: Christianity).
Christ; Messiah; Savior; Redeemer; one from Nazareth; [fig.] sufferer; atoning one; (see Matthew 2:23).
Nazareth, proper n. [see Nazarene, proper n.; possibly < Hebrew netzer, consecrated prince, untrimmed shoot, flourishing branch; see Isaiah 11:1.] (webplay: Christianity).
City in Northern Israel; place where Jesus was raised; agricultural village between the Jezreel Valley and the mountainous regions of Galilee; (see Matthew 2:23 and ED letters).
near (-er, -est), adj. [see near, adv.]
- Close; not far in distance.
- Immediate; significant; essential; important; [fig.] dear to the heart.
- Nigh; close in family relation.
- Next; subsequent.
- Recent; close in time.
- Next door; [fig.] intimate; emotionally close; similar in spirit.
near (-er), adv. [OE.]
- Close in space.
- Almost; just about.
- Close in time.
- Close in distance.
- Present; around; in proximity; close in presence.
- Close in amount.
- Intense; extreme.
- Real; actual; soon to happen.
- Loud; close in sound; high in volume.
- Familiar; close by; [fig.] well-known.
- Full; complete; perfect; better.
- Phrase. “As near as”: like; similar to; as much as.
nearly, adv. [see near, adv.]
Almost; nigh; close to; just about.
nearness, n. [see near, adv.]
- Reality; immediacy; inevitability; inescapable potential for happening.
- Closeness; proximity; communion; remembrance.
- Likeness; similarity; approximation; equivalent.
Nebo, proper n. [Nabu, speaker, announcer, prophet, Mesopotamian god of wisdom and agriculture, patron of scribes and schools).]
Mountain in Israel; peak within sight of Jerusalem; high place that overlooks the promised land (see Deuteronomy 34:1).