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h; accompying or dating from one's birth; native. Princes' children took names from their natal places. Camden. Propitious star, whose sacred power Presided o'er the monarch's natal hour. Prior.

= Aleppo boil.

The drupaceous fruit of two South African shrubs of the genus Arduina (A. bispinosa and A. grandiflora).

Of or pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity. [Obs.] "Natalitial poplar." Evelyn. "Natalitious fire." W. Cartwright.

A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

One's birth, or the circumstances attending it. [Obs.] Fitz- Geffry.

Before birth. Shelley.

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

Being or happening before birth.

n in the United States to various species of siluroid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.…

ony, the name being now specifically applied to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.

Of or pertaining to the time of death. Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour. Pope.

Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.

tain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

t important members of the South African, or Bantu, family of languages, spoken partly in Natal and partly in Zululand, but understood, and more or less in use, over a wide territory, at least as far north as the Zambezi; -- called also Zulu- Kaffir.