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Low. Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

A smooth-skinned variety of peach. Spanish nectarine, the plumlike fruit of the West Indian tree Chrysobalanus Icaco; -- also called cocoa plum. it is made into a sweet conserve which a largely exported from Cuba.

of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -- Needle gun, a firearm loaded at the breech with a cartridge carrying its own fulminate, which is exploded by driving a slender needle, or pin, into it. -- Needle loom (Weaving…

A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

very disagreeable flavor. -- negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. see Durra. McElrath. -- Negro fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath.…

A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

Of or pertaining to the New World, or Western Hemisphere.

Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.

style. See Style. -- New testament. See under Testament. -- New world, the land of the Western Hemisphere; -- so called because not known to the inhabitants of the Eastern Hemisphere until recent times.

To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.

Toward the north; nearer to the north than to the east or west point.

Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.

Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

leeper shark, and ground shark. (b) A large shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum), native of the West Indies and Gulf of Mexico, having the dorsal fins situated behind the ventral fins. -- To put to nurse, or To put out to nurse, to send away to be nursed; to place in the care of a nurse. -- Wet nurse, Dry nurse. See Wet nu…

flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.

The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.

A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies. [Written also obe and obeah.] De Quincey. B. Edwards.

lor. The Theodosian code, several hundred years after Justinian's time, did obtain in the western parts of Europe. Baker.

To occasion. [Obs.] The lowest may occasionate much ill. Dr. H. More.