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Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.

l for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young. The birds of the air have nests. Matt. viii. 20.

As much or many as will fill a nest.

To make and occupy a nest; to nest. [Obs.] The kingfisher ... nestles in hollow banks. L'Estrange.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining that the divine and the human natures were not merged into one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one of the sect estab…

The doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.

The plea of the general issue in an action of debt on bond.

The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county. Bouvier.

The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.

A storm or gale from the northwest; a strong northwest wind.

Toward the northwest, or from the northwest.

Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.

Toward the northwest.

To protest. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

The act of obtesting; supplication; protestation. [R.] Antonio asserted this with great obtestation. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to the gadflies. -- n.

Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence.

The state of being under oestrual influence, or of having sexual desire.