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Land consisting of a moor or moors.

Moorland.

Moorland. [Obs.]

The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. See Note under Multiplication.

A thing which is to be changed; something which must be altered; -- used chiefly in the plural.

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

Any one of three species of South American ostriches of the genera Rhea and Pterocnemia. See Rhea. [Written also nandow.]

Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is esti…

Like, or pertaining to, the Neanderthal skull, or the type of man it represents.

Near; near at hand; closely. [Obs. or Scot.] Bacon.

A band which goes around the neck; often, the part at the top of a garment.

A neck of land. [Obs.]

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] "Nefand adominations." Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." Cotton Mather.

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptosp…

An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.

Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. That no-man's land of twilight. W. Black.

The land in the north; north country. [Chiefly Poetic]

A northener; a person from the north country.

That part of the headstall of a bridle which passes over a horse's nose.