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essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. With strong natural sense, and rare force of will. Macaulay.…

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one…

One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals.

Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.

Nature; naturalness. [R.]

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.

Connected by nature; united in nature; inborn; inherent; natural. These affections are connatural to us. L'Estrange.

Participation of the same nature; natural union or connection. [R.] A congruity and connaturality between them. Sir M. Hale.

To bring to the same nature as something else; to adapt. [Obs.] Dr. J. Scott.

By the act of nature; originally; from birth. Sir M. Hale.

Participation of the same nature; natural union. I. Walton.

Opposed to or against nature; unnatural. [R.] Bp. Rust.

Contrary to nature. [R.] Harvey.

To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.

To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth. Locke.

Not natural; unnatural.