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- English Word Naiad Definition Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc.
- English Word Naiad Definition One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph.
- English Word Naiad Definition Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel.
- English Word Naiad Definition A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.
- English Word Naiant Definition See Natant.
- English Word Naid Definition Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.
- English Word Naif Definition Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
- English Word Naif Definition Naive; as, a naif remark.
- English Word Naik Definition A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.
- English Word Nail Definition To spike, as a cannon.
- English Word Nail Definition To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap.
- English Word Nail Definition To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
- English Word Nail Definition To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
- English Word Nail Definition A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
- English Word Nail Definition the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
- English Word Nail Definition The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
- English Word Nail Definition The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
- English Word Nail Definition A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.
- English Word Nail-headed Definition Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail.
- English Word Nailbrush Definition A brush for cleaning the nails.