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The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.

To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.

In a natural manner or way; according to the usual course of things; spontaneously.

The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.

rves or nervous system; taining to, situated in the region of, or on the side with, the neural, or cerebro-spinal, axis; -- opposed to hemal. As applied to vertebrates, neural is the same as dorsal; as applied to invertebrates it is usually the same as ventral. Cf. Hemal. Neural arch (Anat.), the cartilaginous or bony…

s, and seems therefore to be seated in the nerve. It seems to be independent of any structural lesion. Dunglison.

of or pertaining to, or having the character of, neuralgia; as, a neuralgic headache.

Neuralgia.

Pertaining or according to a nomenclature.

Not natural; unnatural.

Pictorial. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Relating to pisciculture.

Of or pertaining to the pleura or pleuræ, or to the sides of the thorax.

Pain in the side or region of the ribs.

Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word. Plural faith, which is too much by one. Shak. Plural number (Gram.), the number which designates more than one. See Number, n., 8.

The quality or state of being plural, or in the plural number.

an one ecclesiastical benefice. [Eng.] Of the parochial clergy, a large proportion were pluralists. Macaulay.

The state of being plural, or consisting of more than one; a number consisting of two or more of the same kind; as, a plurality of worlds; the plurality of a verb.

The act of pluralizing. H. Spencer.

To make plural by using the plural termination; to attribute plurality to; to express in the plural form.