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Not the more; never the more. [Obs.] penser.

Any one of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia, Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidæ.) They burrow beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.

Like or belonging to Natica, or the family Naticæ.

nguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii. 9.

Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.

The act of nationalizing, or the state of being nationalized.

To make national; to make a nation of; to endow with the character and habits of a nation, or the peculiar sentiments and attachment of citizens of a nation.

In a national manner or way; as a nation. "The jews ... being nationally espoused to God by covenant." South.

The quality or state of being national; nationality. Johnson.

See Legislature.

Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.] Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.

By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.

The quality or state of being native.

The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

An advocate of nativism.

Relating to nativism.