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Having neither acid nor basic properties; unable to turn red litmus blue or blue litmus red; -- said of certain salts or other compounds. Contrasted with Ant: acid, and Ant: alkaline. Neutral axis, Neutral surface (Mech.), that line or plane, in a beam under transverse pressure, at which the fibers are neither stretche…

Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay.

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

ii. 27. He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned. Milton.

A short turn in a rope. Nip and tuck, a phrase signifying equality in a contest. [Low, U.S.]

The back part of the head or neck. [Obs.] For occasion ... turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken. Bacon.

Sound of any kind. The heavens turn about in a most rapid motion without noise to us perceived. Bacon.

Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd.

A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.

-- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every way." Massinger -- Nose piece, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a microscope body, to which an objective is attached. -- To hold, put, or bring one's nose to the grindstone. See under Grind…

A variety of siliceous slate, of which hones are made; razor stone; Turkey stone; hone stone; whet slate.

stinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor L'Estrange. Why should he live, now nature bankrupt is Shak. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a robber. John xviii. 40. The other great and undoing mischief which befalls men is, by their being misrepresented. Now, by ca…

nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

Turned so as to resemble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.

Turning or bending at night into special positions.

A shortened form of of or on. "At the turning o' the tide." Shak.

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

. [Obs.] In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. Bacon.

The act of turning toward or downward.