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A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or dispos…

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A state of nature; conformity to nature.

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Nature; naturalness. [R.]

The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

e 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.

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.

The quality or state of being produced by nature. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To endow with a nature or qualities; to refer to nature. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

An office of devotion, or act of religious service, by night.