Chapter Nargile to Natal of N by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.

2. (Phon.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.

Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. — Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

Nasal
(Na"sal), n.

1. An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.

2. (Med.) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine. [Archaic]

3. (Anc. Armor) Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.

4. (Anat.) One of the nasal bones.

5. (Zoöl.) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.

Nasality
(Na*sal"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. nasalité.] The quality or state of being nasal.

Nasalization
(Na`sal*i*za"tion) n. The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.

Nasalize
(Na"sal*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nasalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Nasalizing ] To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

Nasalize
(Na"sal*ize), v. t. To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.

Nasally
(Na"sal*ly), adv. In a nasal manner; by the nose.

Nascal
(Nas"cal) n. [F. nascale.] (Med.) A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.

Nascency
(Nas"cen*cy) n. [L. nascentia. See Nascent.] State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

Nascent
(Nas"cent) a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.]

1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

Nascent passions and anxieties.

Berkley.

2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced.

Nascent state (Chem.), the supposed instantaneous or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound acid, and not yet united with another, — a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer.

Naseberry
(Nase"ber`ry) n. [Sp. nispero medlar and naseberry tree, fr. L. mespilus. See Medlar.] (Bot.) A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. [Written also nisberry.]

Nash
(Nash) a. [Etymol. uncertain.] Firm; stiff; hard; also, chilly. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.