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Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, N. speciosa. [Written also Nelumbium.]

of the earth's surface which comprises most of South America, the Antilles, and tropical North America.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.

Fresh from anything; newly come. New from her sickness to that northern air. Dryden. New birth. See under Birth. -- New Church, or New Jerusalem Church, the church holding the doctrines taught by Emanuel Swedenborg. See Swedenborgian. -- New heart (Theol.), a heart or character changed by the power of God, so as to b…

An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.

A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.

The northern butcher bird.

A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.

ia) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing in the saline plains of Asia and Northern Africa.

Indian corn parched, and beaten to powder, -- used for food by the Northern American Indians.

To anoint. [Obs.] Sir T. North.

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

A northener; a person from the north country.

A native or inhabitant of Normandy; originally, one of the Northmen or Scandinavians who conquered Normandy in the 10th century; afterwards, one of the mixed (Norman-French) race which conquered England, under William the Conqueror.

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

One of the ancient Scandinavians; a Northman.

Of or pertaining to ancient Numidia in Northern Africa. Numidian crane. (Zoöl.) See Demoiselle, 2.

A genus of plants found in the fresh-water ponds or lakes of Europe, Asia, and North America; the yellow water lily. Cf. Nymphaea.