Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NE-O-LOG'IC-AL-LY, adv.

In a neological manner.

NE-OL'O-GISM,

n: A new word or expression.

NE-OL'O-GIST, n.

One who introduces new words into a language. Lavoisier has been a successful neologist. Med. Repos.

NE-OL-O-GI-ZATION, n.

The act of neologizing. Jefferson.

NE-OL'O-GIZE, v.i.

To introduce or use new terms.

NE-OL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, new, and {foreign}, a word.]

The introduction of a new word or of new words into a language. The present nomenclature of chimistry is a remarkable instance of neology.

NE-O-NOSMI-AN, n. [Gr. {foreign}, new, and {foreign}, law.]

One who advocates new laws, or desires God's law to be oltered. Scott.

NE'O-PHYTE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, new, and {foreign}, a plant]

1. A new convert or proselyte; a name given by the early Christians to such heathens as had recently embraced the Christian faith, and were considered as regenerated by baptism. Encyc.
2. A novice; one newly admitted to the order of priest.
3. A tyro; a beginner in learning.

NE-O-TERIC, or NE-O-TER'IC-AL, a. [Gr. {foreign}, young, from {foreign}, new; Low L. neetericus.]

New; recent in origin; modern. Bacom.

NE-O-TERIC, n.

One of modern times. Burton.

NEO-TRAL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Destroying or rendering inert the peculiar properties of a substance; reducing to indifference or inactivity.

NEP, n.

A plant of the genus Nepeta; catmint.

NE-PEN'THE, n. [Gr. {foreign}; {foreign}, not, and {foreign}, grief.]

A drug or medicine that relieves pain and oxhilarates. [Little used.] Milton.

NEPH'E-LIN, or NEPH'E-LINE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a cloud,]

A mineral found mixed with other substances, primitive or volcanic, in small masses or veins, granolamellar and in hexahedral crystals. It is white or yellow. Dict. Nat. Hist. Ure.

NEPHEW, n. [Fr. never; L. nepos; It. nepote; D. neef; G. neffe; Sans. naptri; W. nai, contracted.]

1. The son of a brother or sister. Dryden.
2. A grandson; also, a descendant. [Not much used.] Hooker.

NE-PHRALGY, n.

Disease or pain in the kidneys.

NEPHRITE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, the kidneys.]

A mineral, a subspecies of jade, of a leek green color, massive and in rolled pieces. It occurs in granite and gneiss, and is remarkable for its hardness and tenacity. It wa formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, but is now cut into handles of sabers and daggers. Cleaveland. Ure. Cyc.

NE-PHRIT'IC, or NE-PHRIT'IC-AL, a. [Gr. {foreign}, from {foreign}, the kidneys.]

1. Pertaining to the kidneys or organs of urine; as, nephritic disease.
2. Affected with a disease of the kidneys; as, a nephritic patient.
3. Relieving disorders of the kidneys in general; as, a nephritic medicine.
4. Nephritic stone, a stone of the silicious kind, called jade.
5. Nephritic wood, a species of compact wood of a fine grain brought from New Spain, which gives a blue color to spirit of wine and to water; which color is changed to yellow by acids, and again to blue by alkalies. Supposed to be the Hyperanthera Moringa. Nicholson. Encyc.

NE-PHRIT'IC, n.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure tin diseases of the kidneys, particularly the gravel or stone it the bladder. Cyc.

NE-PHR-I'TIS, n.

In medicine, an inflammation of the kidneys.

NE-PHROT'O-MY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a kidney, and {foreign}, cutting.]

1. In surgery, the operation of extracting a stone front the kidney, by cutting. Cyc.
2. Ne plus ultra. [L. no further.] To the utmost extent. It is customary to omit the last word and say Ne plus.

NEPO-TISM, n. [Fr. nepotisme, from L. nepos, nephew.]

1. Fondness for nephews. Addison.
2. Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to nephews and other relations.

NEP-TU'NI-AN, a. [from Neptunus, the fabled deity of the ocean.]

1. Pertaining to the ocean or sea.
2. Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, neptunian rocks.

NEP-TUNI-AN, or NEPTU-NIST, n.

One who adopts the theory that the whole earth was once covered with water, or rather that the substances of the globe were former from aqueous solution; opposed to the Plutonic theory. Pinkerton. Good.

NE'RE-ID, [Gr. {foreign}, plur. of {foreign}, from Napes, marine deity; Sans. tiara, water; Ar. and Heb. {foreign}, to flow See Narrate.]

In mythology, a sea nymph. In ancient monuments, the Nereids are represented as riding on sea horses, sometime with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail a fish. They were the daughters of Nereus, and constantly attended Neptune. Encyc.