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Am not. [Obs.]

Capable of being named.

A distraining or levying of a distress; an impounding. Burrill.

A large North American lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush). It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.

Affectedly pretty; weakly sentimental; finical; insipid. Thackeray. Namby-pamby madrigals of love. W. Gifford.

r of an individual or a class. Whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. Gen. ii. 19. What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. Shak.

Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller.

In a nameless manner.

By name; by particular mention; specifically; especially; expressly. [Obs.] Chaucer. The solitariness of man ...God hath namely and principally ordered to prevent by marriage. Milton.

One who names, or calls by name.

One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.

No more. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.

Considerable debility of the vital powers, as in typhoid fever. Dunglison.

Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

Adynamia. [R.] Morin.

Pertaining to the force of air in motion.

The science which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.

Acting by the force of air and water; as, an aërohydrodynamic wheel.

Named before. Peacham.