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

An inflammation of the kidneys.

A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.

Any mollusk of the genus Nerita.

A genus including numerous species of shells resembling Nerita in form. They mostly inhabit brackish water, and are often delicately tinted.

Inflammation of a nerve.

One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.

Blackness; the state of being black. Lamb.

A salt of nitrous acid. Amyl nitrite, a yellow oily volatile liquid, used in medicine as a depressant and a vaso-dilator. Its inhalation produces an instantaneous flushing of the face.

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

Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious. [Obs.] Chapman.

That which nourishes; nutriment. Fixed like a plant, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. Pope.

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.

Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. -- Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. -- Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries. Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. -- Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive c…

Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] Harvey.

rkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty. Yuo are not for obscurity designed. Dryden. They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be contemplated by artists with admiration and despair. Macaulay.

Titanium dioxide occurring in acute octahedral crystals.