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Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.

A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

See Neurocord.

Nerve force.

The central canal and ventricles of the spinal cord and brain; the myelencephalic cavity.

A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. -- Neu`ro*cor"dal, a.

A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, a French chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light in rendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated, insoluble.

Nitrate of calcium, a substance having a grayish white color, occuring in efforescences on old walls, and in limestone caves, especially where there exists decaying animal matter.

See Nitromethane.

See Gun cotton, under Gun.

Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloric acids. Nitrohydrochloric acid, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids, usually in the proportion of one part of the former to three of the latter, and remarkable for its solvent action on gold and platinum; -- called also nitromuriatic acid, and aqua regia.…

An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.

The art of interpreting dreams.

See Oneirocritic.

ide the occipital condyle or the occipital bone; paramastoid; -- applied especially to a process of the skull in some animals.

Of or pertaining to a parish; restricted to a parish; as, parochial duties. "Parochial pastors." Bp. Atterbury. Hence, limited; narrow. "The parochial mind." W. Black.

The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.

The state of being parochial. [R.] Sir J. Marriot.

To render parochial; to form into parishes.