Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NU'TRI-TIVE-NESS, n.

Quality of nourishing. Ellis.

NU'TRI-TURE, n.

The quality of nourishing. [Not used.] Harvey.

NUT'-SHELL, n.

1. The hard shell of a nut; the covering the kernel.
2. Proverbially, a thing of little compass or of little value. L'Estrange.

NUT'TAL-LITE, n.

A mineral found in Bolton, Mass., occurring in prismatic crystals; an alumino-silicate of lime, potash, and iron.

NUT'TING, ppr.

Gathering nuts.

NUT'-TREE, n.

A tree that bears nuts.

NUZ'ZLE, v.i. [qu. from nose.]

To go with the nose near the ground, or thrusting the nose into the ground like swine. Arbuthnot. Pope.

NUZ'ZLE, v.t. [qu. from noursle.]

To nurse; to foster [Vulgar.]

NUZ'ZLE, v.t. [qu. from nose or noursle.]

To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom.

NUZ'ZLE, v.t. [qu. noursle or nestle.]

To nestle; to house as in a nest.

NYC'TA-LOPS, n. [Gr. νυκταλωψ; νυξ, night, and ωψ, the eye.]

1. One that sees best in the night. Coles.
2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning.

NYC'TA-LO-PY, n.

1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds. Todd.
2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sight as night approaches, aud remains blind till morning.

NYE, n.

A brood or flock of pheasants.

NYL'GAU, or NEEL'GHAU, n.

A ruminant mammal of the Caprid tribe, as large as, or larger than a stag. The horns are short and bent forward; there is a beard under the middle of the neck; the hair is grayish; there are strongly marked rings on all the feet, just above the hoofs; the female has no horns. It is the Damalis Risia, of modern naturalists, and the Antilope picta, of the older ones. It inhabits Northern India.

NYMPH, n. [L. nympha; Gr. νυμγη.]

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, of the parts of the world over which they were supposed to preside. Encyc.
2. In poetry, a lady. Waller.

NYMPH, or NYMPH'A, n.

Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect passing to its perfect form.

NYMPH-E'AN, a.

Pertaining to nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as, a nymphean cave. Faber.

NYMPH'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to nymphs. Pausanias, Trans.

NYMPH-IP'A-ROUS, a. [L. nympha and pario.]

Producing nymphs. [1841 Addenda: NYM-PHIP'A-ROUS.]

NYMPH'ISH, a.

Relating to nymphs; lady-like. Drayton.

NYMPH'LIKE, or NYMPH'LY, a.

Resembling nymphs. Dryton.

NYMPH'O-MA-NY, n.

Morbid and incontrollable sexual desire in females, breaking the bounds of modest demeanor; always attended with agitation both of body and mind, and constituting a true and proper disease, which is no more under the control of the will than tetanus.

NYS, v. [ne and is.]

None is; is not. [Obs.] Spenser.    

NYS-TAG'MUS, n. [Gr. νυστγμος.]

Nictation or winking of the eye, as in a drowsy person.