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ending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. Chaucer. I have served him from the hour of my nativity. Shak. Thou hast left ... the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

A species of shrike.

The technical name for sodium.

ls, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.

Native sodium carbonate. [Written also anatron.]

To find fault; to be peevish. [Prov. Eng. or Scot.]

A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.

Neat; tidy; spruce. [Colloq.] -- Nat"ti*ly, adv. -- Nat"ti*ness, n.

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or dispos…

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Nature; naturalness. [R.]

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay.

Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.