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n. See Bone black, under Bone, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thicket of canes. Ellicott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (MIcrobiol.) Any member of the genus Corynebacterium, consisting of gram-positive usually nonmotile irregularly rod-shaped bacteria, some of which are pathogenic or parasitic in humans and domestic animals, such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, which causes diphtheria. [ PJC ]

n. (Zool.) The puffin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The ancient battle standard of Denmark, bearing figures of cross and crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Order of Dannebrog, an ancient Danish order of knighthood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. de + tenebrare to make dark, fr. tenebrae darkness. ] To remove darkness from. [ Obs. ] Ash. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. funebris belonging to a funeral, fr. funus funeral. ] Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funeral; funereal. [ Obs. ] [ Written also funebral. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Funebrial. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inebrians, p. pr. of inebriare. See Inebriate. ] Intoxicating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Anything that intoxicates, as opium, alcohol, etc.; an intoxicant. Smart. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inebriated p. pr. & vb. n. Inebriating ] [ L. inebriatus, p. p. of inebriare; pref. in- in + ebriare to make drunk, fr. ebrius drunk. See Ebriety. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To make drunk; to intoxicate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cups
That cheer but not inebriate. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate or elate as if by spirituous drink; to deprive of sense and judgment; also, to stupefy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The inebriating effect of popular applause. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become drunk. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inebriatus, p. p. ] Intoxicated; drunk; habitually given to drink; stupefied. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus spake Peter, as a man inebriate and made drunken with the sweetness of this vision, not knowing what he said. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is drunk or intoxicated; esp., an habitual drunkard; as, an asylum for inebriates. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some inebriates have their paroxysms of inebriety. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. under the influence of alcohol; intoxicated; drunk.
Syn. -- besotted, bibulous, blind, blind drunk, drunk, drunken, inebriate, sottish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. inebriatio. ] The condition of being inebriated; intoxication; figuratively, deprivation of sense and judgment by anything that exhilarates, as success. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Preserve him from the inebriation of prosperity. Macaulay.

Syn. -- See Drunkenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Inebriate, Ebriety. ] Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Intoxicated, or partially so; intoxicating. [ R. ] T. Brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) (a) The small applelike berry of American trees of genus Amelanchier; -- also called service berry. (b) The shrub or tree which bears this fruit; -- also called shad bush, and shad tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ D. kleen little, small + bok buck. ] (Zool.) An antelope (Cerphalopus pygmæus), found in South Africa. It is of very small size, being but one foot high at the shoulder. It is remarkable for its activity, and for its mild and timid disposition. Called also guevi, and pygmy antelope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Major von Knebel. ] (Min.) A mineral of a gray, red, brown, or green color, and glistening luster. It is a silicate of iron and manganese. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. nebb head, face; akin to D. neb, Icel. nef, beak of a bird, nose, Dan. naeb beak, bill, Sw. näbb, näf, and prob. also to D. sneb, snavel, bill, beak, G. schnabel, Dan. & Sw. snabel, and E. snap. Cf. Nib, Snap, Snaffle. ] The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen. [ Also written nib. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., of uncertain origin. ] (Zool.) A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.) [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Yiddish, nebekh poor, unfortunate. ] A person who is ineffectual, timid, and often luckless; a person of no significance. [ PJC ]

n. Same as Bablh. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Babylonian mythology) The Babylonian god of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
Syn. -- Nabu. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. A resident of the state of Nebraska.
Syn. -- Cornhusker. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Nebulae [ L., mist, cloud; akin to Gr. nefe`lh, ne`fos, cloud, mist, G. nebel mist, OHG. nebul, D. nevel, Skr. nabhas cloud, mist. Cf. Nebule. ] 1. (Astron.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. The term was originally applied to any diffuse luminous region. Now, technically, it is applied to interstellar clouds of dust and gases (diffuse nebula). However distant galaxies and very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope, such as the spiral nebula in Andromeda, known now to be a distant galaxy. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. (Med.) (a) A white spot or a slight opacity of the cornea. (b) A cloudy appearance in the urine. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to nebulae; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally in the form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesis according to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system have been evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. nébule. See nebula. ] A little cloud; a cloud. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

O light without nebule. Old Ballad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The act or process of nebulizing; atomization. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Nebula. ] To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An atomizer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nebulous; cloudy. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nebulositas: cf. F. nébulosité ] 1. The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; haziness; mistiness; nebulousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The nebulosity . . . of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) (a) The stuff of which a nebula is formed. (b) A nebula. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nebulosus: cf. F. nébuleux. See Nebula. ] 1. Cloudy; hazy; misty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, a. [ F. nébulé. ] (Her.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Her. & Arch.) A line or a decoration composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resemble a cloud. See Nébulé [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. obtenebrate to make dark. ] The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) The herb Paris. See Herb Paris, under Herb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A merganser. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Snib. ] To reprimand; to sneap. [ Obs. ] “Scold and sneb the good oak.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A fish having spines in, or in front of, the dorsal fins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of Australian birds of the genus Acanthorhynchus. They are related to the honey eaters. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Sternebrae [ NL., fr. sternum + -bra of vertebra. ] (Anat.) One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral a. [1913 Webster]

n. The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]