Dictionary: NAPH'EW – NARD

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NAPH'EW, n. [L. napus, a turnep; Sax. cnæp, a knob.]

A plant.

NAPH'THA, n. [L. Gr. Ch. Syr. and Ar. from نَفَطَ nafata, to push out, as pustules, to throw out, to boil, to be angry. In Amharic, neft or nepht, from this sense, signifies a gun or musket.]

A volatile limpid bituminous liquid, of a strong peculiar odor, and generally of a light yellow color; but it may be rendered colorless by careful distillation. It is very inflammable, and burns with a white flame, mixed with much smoke. It is insoluble in water, but unites in every proportion with absolute alcohol. Turner. By long keeping it hardens into a substance resembling vegetable resin, and becomes black. Naphtha exsudes from the earth in Persia, and, as is said, in the neighborhood of Babylon. Naphtha may be obtained by the distillation of asphalt from the Dead Sea, and of petroleum from Trinidad. Naphtha consists of carbon and hydrogen, in equal equivalents. Thomson.

NAPH-THAL'IC-AC'ID, n. [NAPH-THAL'IC AC'ID.]

A crystaline product, in appearance resembling benzoic acid, obtained from naphthaline. Brande.

NAPH'THA-LINE, n.

A peculiar white crystalizable substance, deposited from naphtha distilled from coal tar, consisting of hydrogen and carbon. It is heavier than water, has a pungent aromatic taste, and a peculiar faintly aromatic odor not unlike that of the Narcissus. Brande.

NA'PI-FORM, a. [L. napus, a turnep, and forma, form.]

Having the shape of a turnep, swelled in the upper part and becoming more slender below. Beck.

NAP'KIN, n. [Fr. nape, cloth; of which napkin is a diminutive.]

  1. A cloth used for wiping the hands; a towel.
  2. A handkerchief. [Obs.] Shak.

NAP'LESS, a.

Without nap; threadbare. Shak.

NA'PO-LITE, n.

A blue mineral from Vesuvius.

NAP'PAL, n.

Soap rock. Pinkerton.

NAP'PI-NESS, n.

  1. The quality of being sleepy or inclined to take naps.
  2. The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap; as on cloth.

NAP'PING, ppr.

Having a short sleep.

NAP'PY, a. [from nap.]

Frothy; spumy; as, nappy beer. Guy.

NAP'TAK-ING, a.

Taking naps.

NAP'TAK-ING, n.

A taking by surprise, as when one is not on his guard; unexpected onset when one is unprepared. Carew.

NAR'CE-INA, or NAR'CE-INE, n. [Gr. ναρκη.]

An alkaloid obtained from opium, in the form of a white crystaline solid, with a slightly bitter and galvanic taste.

NAR-CIS'SUS, n. [L.; Gr. ναρκισσος.]

In botany, a genus of plants of several species. They are bulbous-rooted, perennial in root, but with annual leaves and flower-stalks. Encyc.

NAR-CO'SIS, n. [Gr. infra.]

The effect of a narcotic, whether medicinal or poisonous.

NAR-COT'IC, a. [Gr. ναρκωτικος, from ναρκοω, to render torpid.]

In medicinal doses allaying morbid susceptibility, relieving pain, and producing sleep. In poisonous doses producing stupor, coma, and convulsions; and, if pushed to a sufficient extent, death.

NAR-COT'IC, n.

A medicine which, in medicinal doses, allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, convulsions, and, if pushed far enough, death.

NAR-COT'IC-AL-LY, adv.

Operating after the manner of a narcotic. Whitlock.

NAR-COT'IC-NESS, n.

The quality of operating as a narcotic. [Not used.]

NAR-COT'IC-O-AC-RID, a.

In medicine, acrid-narcotic; a combination of acrid and narcotic properties.

NAR'COT-INE, n.

An alkaloid obtained from opium, and one of its active narcotic principles. It is a white crystaline solid, nearly destitute of taste.

NAR'CO-TISM, n.

The effect of a narcotic, whether medicinal or poisonous. [Little used.]

NARD, n. [L. nardus, nardum; Gr. ναρδος; from the Arabic, Phenician, Syriac or Persian, probably the latter.]

  1. A plant usually called spikenard, spica nardi; highly valued by the ancients, both as an article of luxury and of medicine. It is odorous or aromatic.
  2. An unguent prepared from the plant.