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A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks. T. S. Hunt.

Nurse. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cormorant. [Prov. Eng.]

A Japanese covered litter, carried by men. B. Taylor.

A granular crystalline rock consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar (as labradorite) and hypersthene.

A supposed metal alleged to have been discovered in zircon.

The land in the north; north country. [Chiefly Poetic]

A northener; a person from the north country.

A rule or authoritative standard; a model; a type.

A norm; a principle or rule; a model; a standard. J. S. Mill.

According to an established norm, rule, or principle; conformed to a type, standard, or regular form; performing the proper functions; not abnormal; regular; natural; analogical. Deviations from the normal type. Hallam.

The quality, state, or fact of being normal; as, the point of normalcy. [R.]

Reduction to a standard or normal state.

In a normal manner. Darwin.

Of or pertaining to Normandy or to the Normans; as, the Norman language; the Norman conquest. Norman style (Arch.), a style of architecture which arose in the tenth century, characterized by great massiveness, simplicity, and strength, with the use of the semicircular arch, heavy round columns, and a great variety of o…

A Norman idiom; a custom or expression peculiar to the Normans. M. Arnold.

One of the three Fates, Past, Present, and Future. Their names were Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the aromatic series obtained from opianic acid.

The most northern of the English Kings-at-arms. See King-at- arms, under King.