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Catnip.

A genus of aquatic hemipterus insects. The species feed upon other insects and are noted for their voracity; -- called also scorpion bug and water scorpion.

Of or pertaining to Nepaul, a kingdom in Northern Hindostan. -- n. sing. & pl.

ve been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting. Lulled with the sweet nepenthe of a court. Pope. Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe. Poe.

Same as Nepenthe. Milton.

A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.

Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

One who advocates or practices nephalism.

A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

An instrument for reckoning the distances or velocities of clouds.

An instrument for measuring or registering the amount of cloudiness.

son or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.] But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren,]. 1 Tim. v. 4. If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor.

Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33.

An instrument for observing the clouds and their velocity.

Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the latter. Quain.

of or pertaining to a nephridium.

A segmental tubule; one of the tubules of the primitive urinogenital organs; a segmental organ. See Illust. under Loeven's larva.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.

Of or pertaining to the kidneys or urinary organs; renal; as, a nephritic disease.