2. 3. He called their names after the names his father Gen. xxvi. 18.5. Celestial, whether among the thrones, or nam'd The term by which any kind or species NAMELESS. adj. [from name.] What's in a name? That which we call a rose, They list with women each degen'rate name, Milton. 1. Not distinguished by any discriminative appellation. The king's army was the last enemy the west What men of name resort to him? A hundred knights name. 2. Simply; merely; barely; in the ab- 6. Power delegated; imputed character. stract. Daniel. So blinds the sharpest counsels of the wise My face I'll grime with filth; Spies, to see the nakedness of the land are come. 3. Plainness; evidence; want of conceal ment. 7. In the name of the people, Fictitious imputation. When Ulysses with fallacious arts, I'll to him again, in the name of Brook; Shakesp 9. An opprobrious appellation. Ecclus. The husband I mention here a son of the king's whom Florizel Accustom not thy mouth to swearing: neither 3. To specify; to nominate, Did my father's godson seek your life? On the cold earth lies th' unregarded king, Fram'd of many nameless stars. Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair shrine we trust Little credit is due to accusations of this kind, when they come from suspected, that is, from nameless pens. Atterbury. Such imag'ry of greatness ill became Harte. NAMELY. adv. [from name.] Particularly; specially; to mention by name. It can be to nature no injury, that of her we say the same which diligent beholders of her works have observed; namely, that she provideth for all living creatures nourishment which may suffice. Hooker. Which of these sorrows is he subject to? -To none of these, except it be the last; Namely, some love that drew him oft from home. Shakesp. The council making remonstrances unto queen Elizabeth, of the continual conspiracies against her life; and namely, that a man was lately taken, who stood ready in a very suspicious manner to do the deed; advised her to go less abroad weakly attended. But the queen answered, that she had rather be dead, than put in custody. Bacon. For the excellency of the soul, namely, its power of divining in dreams; that several such divinations have been made, none can question. Addison. Solomon's choice does not only instruct us in that point of history, but furnishes out a very fine moral to us; namely, that he who applies his heart to wisdom, does at the same time take the most proper method for gaining long life, riches, and reputation. Addison's Guardian. NA'MER. n. s. [from name.] One who calls or knows any by name. NAMESAKE. n. s. One that has the same name with another. Nor does the dog-fish at sea, much more make out the dog of land, than that his cognominal, or Brown's Vulg. Err. namesake in the heavens. One author is a mole to another: it is impossible for them to discover beauties; they have eyes only for blemishes: they can indeed see the light, as is said of their namesakes; but immediately shut their eyes. Audison. NAP. n. s. [pnceppan, Sax. to sleep.] Mopsa sat swallowing of sleep with open mouth, making such a noise, as no body could lay the stealing of a nap to her charge. Sidney. Let your bounty take a nap, and I will awake Jack Cade the clothier meaus to dress the commonwealth, and set a new nap upon it, Shakesp. Plants, though they have no prickles, have a kind of downy or velvet rind upon their leaves; which down or nap cometh of a subtil spirit, in a soft or fat substance. Bacon. Ah! where must needy poet seek for aid, When dust and rain at once his coat invade; His only coat! where dust confus'd with rain Roughens the nap, and leaves a mingled stain. Swift. To NAPP. v. a. [pnoppan, Sax.] To sleep; to be drowsy or secure; to be supinely careless. They took him napping in his bed. Hudibras. What is seriously related by Helmont, that foul linen, stopt in a vessel that hath wheat in it, will in twenty-one days time turn the wheat into mice; without conjuring, one may guess to have been the philosophy and information of some housewife, who had not so carefully covered her wheat, but that the mice could come at it, and were there taken napping just when they had made an end of their good chear. Bentley. NAPTAKING. n. s. [nap and take.] Surprize; seizure on a sudden; unexpected onset, like that made on men asleep. Naptakings assaults, spoilings, and firings, have in our forefathers' days, between us and France, been common. Carew. NAPE. n. s. [Of uncertain etymology. Skinner imagines it comes from nap, the hair that grows on it; Junius, with his usual Greek sagacity, from váwn a hill; perhaps from the same root with knob.] The joint of the neck behind. Turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. Shakesp. Domitian dreamed, the night before he was slain, that a golden head was growing out of the nape of his neck. Bacon. NA PERY. n. s. [naperia, Ital.] linen. NA PHEW. n. s. [napus, Lat.] herb. NAPHTHA. n. s. [naphtha, Lat.] Table Dict. An Naphtha, is a very pure, clear, and thin mineral fluid, of a very pale yellow, with a cast of brown in it. It is soft and oily to the touch, of a sharp and unpleasing taste, and of a brisk and penetrating smell of the bituminous kind. It is extremely ready to take fire. Hill's Mat. Med. Strabo represents it as a liquation of bitumen. It swims on the top of the water of wells and springs. That found about Babylon is in some springs whitish, tho' it be generally black, and differs little from Petroleum. Woodward. NAPPINESS. n. s. [from nappy.] The quality of having a nap. NAPKIN. n. s. [from nap; which etymology is oddly favoured by Virgil, Tonsisque ferunt mantilia villis; naperia, Ital.] 1. A cloth used at table to wipe the hands. 1 am glad I have found this napkin; This was her first remembrance from the Moor. Shakesp. NA'PLESS. adj. [from nap.] Wanting nap; threadbare. Were he to stand for consul, ne'er would he Nor Narcissus fair Thomson. Into the blissful field, thro' groves of myrrh, Smelt, o' the bud o' the briar Or the nard in the fire. Ben Jonson's Underwoods. not NARE. n. s. [naris, Lat.] A nostril; used, except as in the following passage, in affectation. n. s. Tatler. Cyntho was much taken with my narrative. NA'RRATIVELY. adv. [from narrative.' By way of relation. The words of all judicial acts are written narratively, unless it be in sentences wherein dispositive and enacting terms are made use of. Ayliffe's Parergon. NARRATOR. n. s. [narrateur, Fr. from narro, Lat.] A teller; a relater. Consider whether the narrator be honest and faithful, as well as skilful; whether he hath no peculiar gain or profit by believing or reporting it. Watts's Logick. NA'RROW. adj. [neanu, Sax. from. nyn.] 1. Not broad or wide; having but a sma.. distance from side to side. Edward from Belgia, Hath pass'd in safety through the narrow sea. Shakesp. The angel stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left. Numbers, ii. 26. In a narrow bottom'd ditch cattle cannot turn. Mortimer. By being too few, or of an improper figure and dimension to do their duty in perfection, they become narrow and incapable of performing their native function. Blackmore. 2. Small; of no great extent: used of time as well as place. From this narrow time of gestation may ensue a smallness in the exclusion; but this inferreth no informity. Brown. Though the Jews were but a small nation, and confined to a narrow compass in the world, yet the first rise of letters and languages is truly to be ascribed to them. Wilkins. 3. Covetous; avaricious. ungenerous. Nothing more shakes any society than mean divisions between the several orders of its members, and their narrow-hearted repining at other's gain. Spratt. To narrow breasts he comes all wrapt in gain, To swelling hearts he shines in honour's fire. There is a Machiavelian plot, Sidney. Though every nare olfact it not. Hudibras. 4. Contracted; of confined sentiments, NA'RWHALE. A species of whale. Those long horns preserved as precious beauties, are but the teeth of narwhales. Brown's Vul. Err. NA'RRABLE. adj. [from narro, Lat.] Capable to be told or related. NARRATE. v. a. [narro, Lat.] To relate; to tell a word only used in Scotland. NARRATION. n. 8. [narratio, Lat. narration, Fr.] Account; relation ; history. He did doubt of the truth of that narration. Abbot. They that desire to look into the narrations of the story, or the variety of the matter, we have been careful might have profit. 2 Muc. ii. 24. This commandment, containing, among other things, a narration of the creation of the world, is commonly read. White. Homer introduces the best instructions, in the midst of the plainest narrations. Broome on the Odyssey. 5. How The greatest understanding is narrow. much of God and nature is there, whereof we never had any idea? Grew. The hopes of good from those whom we gratify, would produce a very narrow and stinted charity. Smallridge. A salamander grows familiar with a stranger at first sight, and is not so narrow-spirited as to observe, whether the person she talks to, be in Addison. breeches or in petticoats. It is with narrow-soul'd people as with narrowneck'd bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pouring it out. Swift. Near; within a small distance. Then Mnestheus to the head his arrow drove, NA'RRATIVE. adj. [narratif-ve, Fr. from 6. Close; vigilant; attentive. 1. Relating; giving an account. By art were weaved napkins, shirts, and coats, 2. inconsumptible by fire. Brown's Vulg. Err. The same matter was woven into a napkin at Louvain, which was cleansed by being burnt in the fire. Wilkins. Napkins, Heliogabalus had of cloth of gold, but they were most commonly of linen, or soft wool, Arbuthnot. 2. A handkerchief. Obsolete. This sense is retained in Scotland. To judicial acts credit ought to be given though the words be narrative. Ayliffe's Parergon. Storytelling; apt to relate things past. Age, as Davenant says, is always narrative. Dryden. The poor, the rich, the valiant, and the sage, And boasting youth, and narrative old age. Pope. NA'RRATIVE. n. s. A relation; an account; a story. In the instructions I give to others, concerning what they should do, take a narrative of what you have done. South. By reason of the great continent of Brasilia, the needle deflecteth toward the land twelve degrees; but at the Straits of Magellan, where the land is narrowed, and the sea on the other side, it varieth about five or six. Brown. A government, which by alienating the affections, losing the opinions, and crossing the interests of the people, leaves out of its compass the greatest part of their consent, may justly be said, in the same degrees it loses ground, to narrow its bottom. Temple. 4. 2. To contract; to impair in dignity of extent or influence. One science is incomparably above all the rest, where it is not by corruption narrowed into a trade, for mean or ill ends, and secular interests; I mean, theology, which contains the knowledge of God and his creatures. Locke. 3. To contract in sentiment or capacity of knowledge. Desuetude does contract and narrow our facul ties, so that we can apprehend only those things in which we are conversant. Government of the Tongue. The most learned and ingenious society in Europe confess the narrowness of human attainGlanville. ments. Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords The Latin, a severe and compendious language, often expresses that in one word, which either the barbarity or the narrowness of modern tongues cannot supply in more. Dryden. Meanness; poverty. If God will fit thee for this passage, by taking off thy load, and emptying thy bags, and so suit the narrowness of thy fortune to the narrowness of the way thou art to pass, is there any thing but South. mercy in all this? 5. Want of capacity. Another disposition in men, which makes them improper for philosophical contemplations, is not so much from the narrowness of their spirit and understanding, as because they will not take time to extend them. Burnet's Theory. NAS. [from ne has, or has not.] Obsolete. For pity'd is mishap that nas remedy, But scorn'd been deeds of ford foolery. Spenser. How hard it is to get the mind, narrowed by a NASAL. adj. [nasus, Lat.] Belonging scanty collection of common ideas, to enlarge it self to a more copious stock. Lo! ev'ry finish'd son returns to thee; Bounded by nature, narrow'd still by art, A trifling head, and a contracted heart. 4. To confine; to limit. Locke. Pope. I most find fault with his narrowing too much his own bottom, and his unwary sapping the Waterland. foundation on which he stands. By admitting too many things at once into one question, the mind is dazzled and bewildered; whereas by limiting and narrowing the question, you take a fuller survey of the whole. Watts. Our knowledge is much more narrowed, if we Watts. confine ourselves to our own solitary reasonings, without much reading. [In farriery.] A horse is said to narrow, when he does not take ground enough, and does not bear far enough out to the one hand or to the other. Farrier's Dict. NA'RROWLY. adv. [from narrow.] 1. With little breadth or wideness; with small distance between the sides. 2. Contractedly; without extent. The church of England is not so narrowly calculated, that it cannot fall in with any regular species of government. Swift. 3. Closely; vigilantly; attentively. My fellow-schoolmaster Doth watch Bianca's steps so narrowly. Shakesp. If it be narrowly considered, this colour will be reprehended or encountered, by imputing to all excellencies in compositions a kind of poverty. Bacon. For a considerable treasure hid in my vineyard search narrowly when I am gone. L'Estrange. A man's reputation draws eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him. Addison. 4. Nearly; within a little. Some private vessels took one of the Aquapulca ships, and very narrowly missed of the other. 5. Avariciously; sparingly. NA'RROWNESS. n. s. [from narrow.] 1. Want of breadth or wideness. Swift to the nose. The most pernicious infection next the plague, is the smell of the jail, when prisoners have been long and close and nustily kept. Bacon's Nat Hist. 2. Obscenely; grossly. NAʼSTINESS. n. s. [from nasty.] 1. Dirt; filth. This caused the seditious to remain within their station, which by reason of the nastiness of the beastly multitude, might more fitly be termed a kennel than a camp. Hayward. Haughty and huge, as High Dutch bride, 2. Obscenity; grossness of ideas. Pope. Their nastiness, their dull obscene talk and ribaldry, cannot but be very nauseous and offensive to any who does not baulk his own reason, out of love to their vice. South, A divine might have employed his pains to better purpose, than in the nastiness of Plutus and Aristophanes. Dryden. NATAL. adj. [natal, Fr. natalis, Lat.] Native; relating to nativity. NA'THLESS. adj. [na, that is, not, the less, Sax.] Nevertheless: formed thus, natheless, nath'less. Obsolete. Nath less, my brother, since we passed are Unto this point, we will appease our jar. Spenser The torrid clime Smote on him sore besides, vaulted with fire. Nath less he so endur'd, 'till on the beach Of that inflamed sea he stood, and call'd His legions. Milton's Par. Lost. NATHMORE. adv. [na the more.] Never the more. Obsolete. Yet nathmore by his bold hearty speech, Could his blood-frozen heart embolden'd be. Spenser. NATION. n. s. [nation, Fr. natio, Lat.] 1. A people distinguished from another people; generally by their language, original, or government. 2. If Edward III. had prospered in his French wars, and peopled with English the towns which he won, as he began at Calais driving out the French, his successors holding the same course, would have filled all France with our nation. Raleigh. A nation properly signifies a great number of families derived from the same blood, born in the same country, and living under the same governTemple. ment. A great number: emphatically. When after battle I the field have seen Spread o'er with ghastly shapes, which once were men; A nation crusht! a nation of the brave! A realm of death! and on this side the grave Are there, said I, who from this sad survey, This human chaos, carry smiles away? Young. NATIONAL. adj. [national, Fr. from nation.] 1. Publick; general; not private; not particular. They in their earthly Canaan plac'd, Long time shall dwell and prosper: but when sins National interrupt their public peace. Milton. Such a national devotion inspires men with sentiments of religious gratitude, and swells their hearts with joy and exultation. Addison. The astonishing victories our armies have been crowned with, were in some measure the blessings returned upon that national charity which has been so conspicuous. Addison. God, in the execution of his judgments, never visits a people with public and general calamities, but where their sins are public and national too. 2. Bigotted to one's own country. Rogers. national.] The term adulterous chiefly relates to the Jews, who being nationally espoused to God by cove nant, every sin of theirs was in a peculiar manner spiritual adultery. South. NATIONALNESS. n. s. [from national.] Reference to the people in general. NATIVE. adj. [nativus, Lat. natif-re. Fr.] 1. Produced by nature; natural, not artıficial. 2. The In progressive motion the arms and legs move successively, but in natation both together. Brown. She more sweet than any bird on bough Would oftentimes amongst them bear a part, And strive to pass, as she could well enough, Their native musick by her skilful art. Spenser. This doctrine doth not enter by the ear, But of itself is native in the breast. Davies. Natural; such as is according to nature; original. The members retired to their homes, reassume the native sedateness of their temper. Swift. 3. Conferred by birth; belonging by birth. But ours is a privilege ancient and native, Hangs not on an ordinance, or power legislative; And first, 'tis to speak whatever we please. Denham. 4. Relating to the birth; pertaining to the time or place of birth. If these men have defeated the law, and outrun native punishinent; though they can outstrip men, Shakesp they have no wings to fly from God. Many of our bodies shall, no doubt, Find native graves. Shakesp. Henry V. 5. Original; that which gave being. NATIVE. n. s. Milton. 15. 6. things natural. Following the stated course of things. [2. To make natural; to make easy like Consonant to natural notions. He rises fresh to his hammer and anvil; custom has naturalized his labour to him. NATURALLY. adv. [from natural.] Such unnatural c nnections become, by custom, 7. Discoverable by reason, not revealed. 1. One born in any place; original inha-8. bitant. Bacon's Advice to Villiers. Tully, the humble mushroom scarcely known, The lowly native of a country town. Dryden's Juvenal. There stood a monument to Tacitus the historian, to the emperors Tacitus and Florianus, natives of the place. Addison. NATURAL. n. s. [from nature.] Our natives have a fuller habit, squarer, and more extended chests, than the people that be be-1. An idiot; one whom nature debars yond us to the south. Blackmore. from understanding; a fool. That a monster should be such a natural Shak. Take the thoughts of one out of that narrow compass he has been all his life confined to, you will find him no more capable of reasoning than a Locke. perfect natural. Not in 2. Native; original inhabitant. use. The inhabitants and naturals of the place should he in a state of freemen.Abbot's Desc. of the World. Oppression, in many places, wears the robes of justice, which domineering over the naturals may not spare strangers, and strangers will not endure it. Raleigh's Essays. their nativity, wherein they were freed from the 3. Gift of nature; nature; quality. Not pains and sorrows of a troublesome world. Nelson. 2. Time, place, or manner of birth. My husband, and my children both, Shakesp. When I vow, I weep; and vows so born, 3. State or place of being produced. Milton. NATURAL. adj. [naturalis, Lat. naturel, Fr.] 1. Produced or effected by nature; not artificial. There is no natural motion of any particular aeavy body, which is perpetual, yet it is possible! from them to contrive such an artificial revolution as shall constantly be the cause of itself. Wilkins. 2. Illegitimate; not legal. This would turn the vein of that we call natural, to that of legal propagation; which has ever been encouraged as the other has been disfavoured by ali institutions. Temple. 3. Bestowed by nature; not acquired. Swift. 4. Not forced; not farfetched; dictated by nature. I will now deliver a few of the properest and naturallest considerations that belong to this piece. Wotton. VOL. II. in use. The wretcheder are the contemners of all helps; To consider them in their pure naturals, the Admirable artifice! wherewith Galen, though a mere naturalist, was so taken, that he could not but adjudge the honour of a hymn to the wise Creator. More. It is not credible, that the naturalist could be NATURALIZATION. n. s. [from natural- The Spartans were nice in point of naturaliza- Encouragement may be given to any merchants that shall come over and turn a certain stock of their own, as naturalization, and freedom from customs the two first years. Temple. Enemies, by taking advantage of the general To NATURALIZE. v. a. [from natural.] The lords informed the king, that the 1rish South. According to the power or impulses of unassisted nature. Our sovereign good is desired naturally; God, the author of that natural desire, hath appointed natural means whereby to fulfill it; but man having utterly disabled his nature unto these means, hath had other revealed, and hath received from heaven a law to teach him, how that which is desired naturally, must now supernaturally be attained. Hooker. If sense be not certain in the reports it makes of things to the mind, there can be naturally no South. such thing as certainty of knowledge. When you have once habituated your heart to a serious performance of holy intercession, you have done a great deal to render it incapable of spite and envy, and to make it naturally delight in the happiness of mankind. Law. 2. According to nature; without affectation; with just representation. He must understand what is contained in the temperament of the eyes, in the naturalness of the eyebrows. Dryden. Horace speaks of these parts in an ode that may be reckoned ameng the finest for the naturalness of the thought, and the beauty of the expression. Addison. NATURE. n. s. [natura, Lat. nature, 1. An imaginary being supposed to pre- Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy law Let the postillion nature mount, and let At home all riches that wise nature needs.Cowley. What ail'd them their fix'd natures to forsake? Cowley. Between the animal and rational province, some animals have a dark resemblance of the influxes of reason. so between the corporeal and intellectual world, there is man participating much of both natures. Hale's Origin of Mankind. The nature of brutes, besides what is common to them with plants, doth consist in having such faculties, whereby they are capable of ap, rehending external objects, and of receiving pain or pleasure from them. Wilkins. 3. The constitution of an animated body. When nature, being opprest, commands the mind 4. Disposition of mind; temper. Nothing cou'd have subdu'd nature Shakesp. A credulous father, and a brother noble, Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he sus ects none; on whose foolish honesty My practises ride easy. Shakesp. King Lear. 5. The regular course of things. My end Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence.Shak. 6. The compass of natural existence. If their dam may be judge, the young apes are the most beautiful things in nature. Glanville. 7. The constitution and appearances of things. The works, whether of poets, painters, moralists, or historians, which are built upon general nature, live for ever, while those which depend for their existence on particular customs and habits, a partial view of nature, or the fluctuation of fashion, can only be coeval with that which first raised them from obscurity. Reynolds. 8. Natural affection or reverence; native sensations. Nature and Homer were, he found, the same. Pope. 12. Physicks; the science which teaches the qualities of things. Nature sometimes means what belongs to a living creature as its nativity, or accrues to it by its birth, at when we say, a man is noble by nature, or a child is naturally forward. This may be expressed by saying, the man was born so; or, the thing was generated such. Nature sometimes means an internal principle of local motion, as we say, the stone falls, or the flame rises by nature; for this we may say, that the motion up or down is spontaneous, or produced by its proper cause. Nature sometimes means the established course of things corporeal; as, nature makes the night succeed the day. This may be termed established order or settled course. Nature means sometimes the aggregate of the powers belonging to a body, especially a living one; as when physicians say, that nature is strong. or nature left to herself will do the cure. For this may be used, constitution, temperament, or structure of the body Nature is put likewise for the system of the corporeal works of God; as there is no phoenix or chimera in nature. For nature thus applied, we may use the world, or the universe. Nature is sometimes indeed commonly taken for a kind of semi-deity. In this sense it is best not to use it at all. Boyle's Free Inquiry into the received Notion of Nature. NATURITY. n. s. [from nature.] The state of being produced by nature. A word not used. This cannot be allowed, except we impute that unto the first cause which we impose not on the second; or what we deny unto nature we impute unto naturity. Brown. NAVAL. adj. [naval, Fr. navalis, Lat.] 1. Consisting of ships. Encamping on the main, Our naval army had besieged Spain; They that the whole world's monarchy design'd, Are to their ports by our bold fleet confin'd. Waller. As our high vessels pass their watry way, Let all the naval world due homage pay. Prior. 2. Belonging to ships. Masters of such numbers of strong and valiant men, as well as of all the naval stores that furnish the world. Temple. NAVE. n. s. [naf, Sax.] 1. The middle part of the wheel in which the axle moves. 2. Out, out, thou strumpet fortune! all you gods In general synod take away her pow'r ;' Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heav'n, As low as to the fieuds. Shakesp. Hamlet. In the wheels of waggons the hollows of the naves, by their swift rotations on the ends of the axle-trees, produce a heat sometimes so intense as to set them on fire. Ray. [From navis, nave, old Fr.] The middle part of the church distinct from the aisles or wings. It comprehends the nave or body of the church, together with the chancel. Ayliffe's Parergon. NA'VEL. n. s. [nafela, navela, Sax.] Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night, God said, let Newton be, and all was light. Pope. 13. Of this word which occurs so fre-1. quently, with significations so various, and so difficultly defined, Boyle has given an explication, which deserves to be epitomised. Nature sometimes means the Author of Nature, or natura naturans; as, nature hath made man partly corporeal and partly immaterial. For nature in this sense may be used the word creator. Nature sometimes means that on whose account a thing is what it is, and is calied, as when we efine the nature of an angle. For nature in this sease may be used essence or quality. The point in the middle of the belly, by which embryos communicate with the parent. Imbrasides addrest His javeline at him, and so ript his navill, that the wound, As endlessly it shut his eyes so open'd on the ground, Chapman. It powr'd his entrailes. The use of the navel is to continue the infant unto the mother, and by the vessels thereof to convey its aliments. Brown 2. Me from the womb the midwife muse did take, She cut my navel. Cowley. There is a superintending Providence, that some animals will hunt for the teat before they are quite gotten out of the secundines and parted from the navelstring. Derham The middle; the interiour part. Even when the navel of the state was touch'd, Within the navel of this hideous wood, Immur'd in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. NA'VELGALL. n. s. Milton. Narelgall is a bruise on the top of the chine of the back, behind the saddle, right against the navel, occasioned either by the saddle being split behind, or the stuffing being wanting, or by the crupper buckle sitting down in that place, or soms hard weight or knobs lying directly behind the saddle. NAVELWORT. n.s. [cotyledon.] A plant. It hath the appearance of houseleek. Miller. NA'VEW. n. s. [napus, Lat navet, naveau, Fr.] A plant. It agrees in most respects with the turnep; but has a lesser root, and somewhat warmer in taste. In the isle of Ely the species, which is wild, is very much cultivated, it being the cole seed from which they draw the oil. Miller. NAUGHT. [nape, nappipe, Sax. that is, ne aught, not any thing.] Bad; corrupt; worthless it is now hardly used but in ludicrous language. With them that are able to put a difference between things naught and things indifferent in the church of Rome, we are yet at controversy about the manner of removing that which is naught. Hooker. Thy sister's naught: Oh, Regan! she hath tied Sharp-tooth'd unkinduess like a vulture here. Shakesp NAUGHT. n. s. Nothing. This is commonly, though improperly, written nought. See AUGHT and OUGHT. Be you contented To have a son set your decrees at naught, Shakesp NAUGHTILY. adv. [from naughty. Wickedly; corruptly. NAUGHTINESS. n. s. [from naughty. Wickedness; badness. Slight wicked ness or perverseness, as of children. No remembrance of naughtiness delights bu mine own; and methinks the accusing his trap might in some manner excuse my fault, whic certainly I loth to do. Sidney NAUGHTY. adj. The same with naughi 1. Bad; wicked; corrupt. tered A prince of great courage and beauty, but fo up in blood by his naughty father. Sidne These naughty times Put bars between the owners and their rights. Shakes How far that little candle throws his beans! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shakes 2. It is now seldom used but in ludicro |