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A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

ogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

One who murmurs.

Musculation.

world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay.

Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.

Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. [Obs.] Milton.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

One of the nerves of leaves.

Of or pertaining to both the neuron and the enteron; as, the neurenteric canal, which, in embroys of many vertebrates, connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

any particular branch of science or art, or by any school or individual; as, the nomenclature of botany or of chemistry; the nomenclature of Lavoisier and his associates.

Insecurity. [Obs.]

A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.

Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.

The office of a nuncio. Clarendon.

The act of nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton.

Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] Harvey.

To harden. [Obs.] Milton.

Obdurate; hard. [Obs.] This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.

Hardness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.