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Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]

Irritable; touchy. [Colloq.]

A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.

Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel.

(Her.) See Natant. Crabb.

Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chætopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochæta.

Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; -- called also nail-head…

A brush for cleaning the nails.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

A women who makes nailes.

A manufactory where nails are made.

Without nails; having no nails.

A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

See Naiad.

Same as Jessant.

Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naïve manners; a naïve person; naïve and unsophisticated remarks.