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An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain.

of or pertaining to a nephridium.

A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.

An inflammation of the kidneys.

of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. Dunglison.

A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.

Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.

Of or relating to a nephew.

Of or pertaining to npotism. The nepotic ambition of the ruling pontiff. Milman.

Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim. From nepotism Alexander V. was safe; for he was without kindred or relatives. But there was another perhaps more fatal nepotism, which turned the ti…

One who practices nepotism.

The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years. Neptune powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin…

Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks. Neptunian races (Ethnol.), the Malay and Polynesian races. -- Neptunian theory (Geol.), the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory.

One who adopts the neptunian theory.

As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.