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Eight and one more; one less than ten; as, nine miles. Nine men's morris. See Morris. -- Nine points circle (Geom.), a circle so related to any given triangle as to pass through the three points in which the perpendiculars from the angles of the triangle upon the opposite sides (or the sides produced) meet the sides.…

A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spiræa, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.

The lamprey.

The northern butcher bird.

Nine times repeated.

A game in which nine holes are made in the ground, into which a ball is bowled.

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. -- n.

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.

Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

A white crystalline base, C3H7NO2, derived from aldehyde ammonia.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.

The condition or quality of being bony.

The quality of being bonny; gayety [R.]

The quality or state of being brawny.

The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.