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ade by mixing indigo or other blue some warm color. the shades vary greatly. -- Neutral vowel, the vowel element having an obscure and indefinite quality, such as is commonly taken by the vowel in many unaccented syllables. It is regarded by some as identical with the û in up, and is called also the natural vowel, as…

as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. To cut it off in the very nick. Howell. This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gainger of a point. L'Estrange.

To make a nest. Where are the fishes which nidificated in trees Lowell.

d; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium. [Obs.] He is worthy to be called a niding. Howell.

Same as Nowel.

No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbro…

. dove, AS. dufe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre. The letter o has several vowel sounds, the principal of which are its long sound, as in bone, its short sound, as in nod, and the sounds heard in the words orb, son, do (feod), and wolf (book). In connection with the other vowels it forms several digraphs…

See Stupefaction. [Obs.] Howell.

To shade; to darken; to cloud. [R.] Howell.

of occluding, or the state of being occluded. Constriction and occlusion of the orifice. Howell.

Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the än fär is open as compared with the a in say.

Of or pertaining to a town. Howell.

Government by the nobility. [R.] Howell.

To form into an orb or circle. [Poetic] Milton. Lowell.

Restitution for cattle; a penalty for taking away cattle. Cowell.

ent next a hall, where certain persons were accustomed to dine; a sort of recess. [Obs.] Cowell.

hat which goes out, or is paid out; outlay; expenditure; -- the opposite of Ant: income. Lowell.

To outweigh. Howell.

Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.

To fill too full. [Obs.] Howell.