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385 words match “NUL”

NUL a.
No; not any; as, nul disseizin; nul tort.
NULL a. 5 definitions
efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.
NULLAH n.
A water course, esp. a dry one; a gully; a gorge; -- orig. an East Indian term. E. Arnold.
NULLED a.
Turned so as to resemble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.
NULLIBIETY n.
The state or condition of being nowhere. [Obs.]
NULLIFICATION n.
The act of nullifying; a rendering void and of no effect, or of no legal effect. Right of nullification (U. S. Hist.), the right claimed in behalf of a State to nullify or make void, by its sovereign act or decree, an enactment of the general government which it deems unconstitutional.
NULLIFIDIAN a. 2 definitions
Of no faith; also, not trusting to faith for salvation; -- opposed to Ant: solifidian. Feltham.
NULLIFIER n.
One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.
NULLIFY v.
render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.
NULLIPORE n.
A name for certain crustaceous marine algæ which secrete carbonate of lime on their surface, and were formerly thought to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.
NULLITY n. 3 definitions
The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.
ACTINULA n.
A kind of embryo of certain hydroids (Tubularia), having a stellate form.
ANNUL v. 2 definitions
. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.
ANNULAR a. 2 definitions
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a ring; forming a ring; ringed; ring-shaped; as, annular fibers.
ANNULARITY n.
Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.
ANNULARRY adv.
In an annular manner.
ANNULARY a.
Having the form of a ring; annular. Ray.
ANNULATA n.
A class of articulate animals, nearly equivalent to Annelida, including the marine annelids, earthworms, Gephyrea, Gymnotoma, leeches, etc. See Annelida.
ANNULATE n.
One of the Annulata.
ANNULATE; ANNULATED a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the Annulata.
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