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A murderer. [Obs. or Prov.]

One who mutters.

A women who makes nailes.

A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid [so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at least two witnesses. T…

Were not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.

Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridæ or allied families.

A Nereid. See Nereid.

Fossil tracks of annelids.

A genus of gigantic seaweeds.

A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.

Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.

Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.

One who numbers.

One who offers; esp., one who offers something to God in worship. Hooker.

An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oögonium.

A short, light, musical drama.

One who puts in order, arranges, methodizes, or regulates.

The aard-vark.