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A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name. Nanny goat, a female goat. [Colloq.]

See Sheepberry.

A fool; a simpleton. Shak.

A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.

A silly fellow; a ninny.

The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

Any one of a series of metameric, unsaturated hydrocarbons C9H18 of the ethylene series.

Of, pertaining to, related to, or designating, nonylene or its compounds; as, nonylenic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, nonyl or its compounds; as, nonylic acid.

The condition of being obdiplostemonous.

Generetion, or mode of development, of the teeth.

Prognostication by the letters of a name.

ion of the germ; the development of an individual organism, -- in distinction from phylogeny, or evolution of the tribe. Called also henogenesis, henogeny.

Any. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The precious stone called onyx. [R.]

A whitlow.

Divination by the nails.

Malacopoda.

Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground. Onyx marble, a banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.

Same as Meconin.