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Of or pertaining to one's birth; accompying or dating from one's birth; native. Princes' children took names from their natal places. Camden. Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour. Prior.

= Aleppo boil.

The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).

Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity. [Obs.] "Natalitial poplar." Evelyn. "Natalitious fire." W. Cartwright.

A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

One's birth, or the circumstances attending it. [Obs.] Fitz- Geffry.

Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.

In a floating manner; swimmingly.

The act of floating on the water; swimming. Sir T. Browne.

The swimming birds.

Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.

Adapted for swimming; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

A swimming bath.

Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs.

The rump of beef; esp., the lower and back part of the rump. Natch bone, the edgebone, or aitchbone, in beef.

A tribe of Indians who formerly lived near the site of the city of Natchez, Mississippi. In 1729 they were subdued by the French; the survivors joined the Creek Confederacy.

An annual grass (Eleusine coracona), cultivated in India as a food plant.

The buttocks.

hath not. [Obs.]

Nevertheless. [Archaic] Chaucer. Milton. E. Arnold.