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Recent in origin; modern; new. "Our neoteric verbs." Fitzed. Hall. Some being ancient, others neoterical. Bacon.

Recently; newly.

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

One ho introduces new word Fitzed Hall.

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

Belonging to, or designating, a region of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.

More recent than the Paleozoic, -- that is, including the Mesozoic and Cenozoic.

Catnip.

A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

ve been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

Same as Nepenthe. Milton.

A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.] But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren,]. 1 Tim. v. 4. If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor.

Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33.