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No, not. See No. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The summit of an eminence. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Pulverized sugar candy. Crabb.

The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe. [Written also nubk.] See Lotus (b), and Sadr.

Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. " A bilious old nabob." Macaulay.

A pale red color, with a cast of orange. Ure.

A small boat. [Obs.]

See Nacre. Johnson.

es the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

Had not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An adder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The lowest point; the time of greatest depression. The seventh century is the nadir of the human mind in Europe. Hallam. Nadir of the sun (Astron.), the axis of the conical shadow projected by the earth. Crabb.

See Nenia.

A nævus. [Obs.] Dryden.

Resembling a nævus or nævi; as, nævoid elephantiasis. Dunglison.

Spotted; frecled.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fret pertinaciously. [Colloq.] "She never nagged." J. Ingelow.

The disease caused by the tsetse fly. [South Africa]