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an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also malefeasance.]

The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, or Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do. Bouvier. Wharton.

One of an extinct order of reptiles, including Mosasaurus and allied genera. See Mosasauria.

hey are, essentially, fossil sea serpents with paddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.

A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

nts m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion,…

The quality or state of being nasal.

The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.

To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.

In a nasal manner; by the nose.

An omission or neglect to do something, esp. that which ought to have been done. Cf. Malfeasance.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.

The gemsbok.

A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.

Rude; clownish; illiterate.

Peasantlike. [Obs.] Milton.