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The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.

A contrivance, as a band, pin, snap, or the like, to hold the skirt of a woman's dress from the ground.

A projection in the throat of such flowers as the snapdragon.

A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.

The almost inappreciable time which elapses between the systole and the diastole of the heart.

rly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip; masked, as in the flower of the snapdragon.

iderable range of products, including benzine and ligroin. The terms petroleum ether, and naphtha, are sometimes applied to the still more volatile products, including rhigolene, gasoline, cymogene, etc.

Nap of cloth. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances. Phthalic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.

s (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

A hair; hence, the fiber of wool, cotton, and the like; also, the nap when thick or heavy, as of carpeting and velvet. Velvet soft, or plush with shaggy pile. Cowper.

Having a pile or nap. "Three-piled velvet." L. Barry (1611).

The top of the head of a bird, from the bill to the nape.

igh place." Jer. xlviii. 35. -- In place, in proper position; timely. -- Out of place, inappropriate; ill-timed; as, his remarks were out of place. -- Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. -- Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. -- To giv…

A manstealer; a kidnaper. [Obs.]

Manstealing; kidnaping.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to an extensive marshy district between Rome and Naples. [Written also Pomptine.]