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The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

One who believes in, or conforms to, the theory of naturism. Boyle.

Rationalism.

An innovation or novelty; a neoteric word or phrase.

One ho introduces new word Fitzed Hall.

Nerve force. See Vital force, under Vital.

An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have been found from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.

The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.

and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14.

Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew.

One who, or that which, nourishes. Milton.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

Nutritively; cherishingly.

The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition.

One who deals in numbers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The character or manners of an ogre.

One who is skilled in or practices optometry.

Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.