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One who labors at night and sleeps in the day.

A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.

n atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Any free-swimming gonophore of a hydroid; a hydroid medusa.

A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

g a siphon, or siphons, to convey water to the gills; belonging or pertaining to the Siphonobranchiata. -- n.

eally is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. Thackeray. Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White.

The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness.

Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- Snob"bish*ly, adv.

lgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob.

Snobbery.

Snobbish. [R.] E. B. Ramsay.

A little snob. [Jocose] Thackeray.

Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] C. Kingsley.

Ignoble. Shak.

Ignobly. J. Fletcher.

Disobedience. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Disobedient. [Obs.] Milton.