2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless.
A kingless people for a nerveless state.
Byron.
Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream.
Hawthorne. Nervelessness
(Nerve"less*ness), n. The state of being nerveless.
Nerve-shaken
(Nerve"-shak`en) a. Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome
by some violent influence or sensation; shocked.
Nervimotion
(Ner`vi*mo"tion) n. [Nerve + motion.] (Physiol.) The movement caused in the sensory
organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
Nervimotor
(Ner`vi*mo"tor) n. [Nerve + motor.] (Physiol.) Any agent capable of causing nervimotion.
Dunglison.
Nervine
(Nerv"ine) (?; 277) a. [L. nervinus made of sinews: cf.F. nervin. See Nerve.] (Med.) Having
the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement. — n. A nervine agent.
Nervomuscular
(Ner`vo*mus"cu*lar) a. [Nerve + muscular.] (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to both nerves
and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.
Nervose
(Ner*vose") a. [See Nervous.] (Bot.) Same as Nerved.
Nervosity
(Ner*vos"i*ty) n. [L. nervositas strength.] Nervousness. [R.]
Nervous
(Nerv"ous) a. [L. nervosus sinewy, vigorous: cf. F. nerveux. See Nerve.]
1. possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous. "Nervous arms." Pope.
2. Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as,
a nervous writer.
3. Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.
4. Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of
the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.
Poor, weak, nervous creatures.
Cheyne. 5. Sensitive; excitable; timid.
Our aristocratic class does not firmly protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is
nervous about the land.
M. Arnold. Nervous fever (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system,
as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc. — Nervous system (Anat.), the specialized
coördinating apparatus which endows animals with sensation and volition. In vertebrates it is often divided
into three systems: the central, brain and spinal cord; the peripheral, cranial and spinal nerves; and the
sympathetic. See Brain, Nerve, Spinal cord, under Spinal, and Sympathetic system, under Sympathetic,
and Illust. in Appendix. — Nervous temperament, a condition of body characterized by a general
predominance of mental manifestations. Mayne.
