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An atomizer.

Nebulous; cloudy. Derham.

The state or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli.

Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike. -- Neb"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Neb"u*lous*ness, n.

A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NÉbulÉ

An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. Hixley.

In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.

The quality of being necessary.

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile.

The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp. Bramhall.

In a state of want; necessitous. [Obs.] Shak.

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

See Nicker nut.