Nap-taking
(Nap"-tak`ing) n. A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack. Carew.
Napu
(||Na*pu") n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) A very small chevrotain (Tragulus Javanicus), native of Java.
It is about the size of a hare, and is noted for its agility in leaping. Called also Java musk deer, pygmy
musk deer, and deerlet.
Napus
(||Na"pus) n. [L.] (Bot.) A kind of turnip. See Navew.
Narceine
(Nar"ce*ine) n. [L. narce numbness, torpor, Gr. : cf. F. narcéïne.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found
in small quantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It
is a narcotic. Called also narceia.
Narcissine
(Nar*cis"sine) a. Of or pertaining to Narcissus.
Narcissus
(Nar*cis"sus) n.; pl. Narcissuses [L. narcissus, and (personified) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos,
Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor, in allusion to the narcotic properties of the flower. Cf. Narcotic.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown
within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.
2. (Classical Myth.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a
fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.
Narcosis
(||Nar*co"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. na`rkwsis. See Narcotic.] (Med.) Privation of sense or consciousness,
due to a narcotic.
Narcotic
(Nar*cot"ic) a. [F. narcotique, Gr. fr. to benumb, na`rkh numbness, torpor.] (Med.) Having
the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.
— Nar*cot"ic*ness, n.
Narcotic
(Nar*cot"ic) n. (Med.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility,
relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions,
and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium belladonna and
conium.
Nercotykes and opye (opium) of Thebes.
Chaucer. Narcotical
(Nar*cot"ic*al) a. Narcotic.
— Nar*cot"ic*al*ly, adv.
Narcotine
(Nar"co*tine) n. [Cf. F. narcotine. Cf. Cotarnine.] (Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium,
and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; — called
also narcotia.
Narcotinic
(Nar`co*tin"ic) a. Pertaining to narcotine.
Narcotism
(Nar"co*tism) n. [Cf. F. narcotisme.] Narcosis; the state of being narcotized. G. Eliot.
Narcotize
(Nar"co*tize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Narcotized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Narcotizing ] To imbue with,
or subject to the influence of, a narcotic; to put into a state of narcosis.
Nard
(Nard) n. [AS., fr. L. nardus, Gr. cf. Heb. nêrd, Per. nard, Scr. nalada.]
1. (Bot.) An East Indian plant (Nardostachys Jatamansi) of the Valerian family, used from remote ages
in Oriental perfumery.
