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An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger. The princes were so nettled at the scandal of this affront, that every man took it to himself. L'Estrange.

ttle at a time; to seize gently with the mouth; to eat slowly or in small bits. Thy turfy mountains, where live nibbling sheep. Shak.

An apparatus for determining the amount of nitrogen or some of its compounds in any substance subjected to analysis; an azotometer.

To cause to bend. [Poetic] By every wind that nods the mountain pine. Keats.

A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton.

blique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis. Olympic games, or Olympics (Greek Antiq.), the greatest of the national festivals of the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four…

A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

o trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. Cowper.

ce. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound.

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.