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nacelle [Fr], enclosure for protecting an engine.
Nachbeterei [Ger], blind adherence; unquestioning fidelity.
nach Canossa gehen wir nicht [Ger], we are not going to Canossa:
Bismarck (referring to the humiliating submission of Emperor Henry
IV to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa, Italy, in 1077).
nach Christo or nach Christi Geburt [Ger], after Christ; A.D.: abbr.
n.Ch.
Cf. VOR CHRISTO.
Nachdruck [Ger], emphasis: music.
nacheifern ist beneiden [Ger], to emulate is to envy: Lessing.
nachlässig [Ger], negligent; careless.
Nachmittag [Ger], afternoon: abbr. Nm.
nachmittags [Ger], in the afternoon; p.m.: abbr. Nm.
nach reiflicher Überlegung [Ger], after mature consideration.
Nachspiel [Ger], postlude.
Nacht [Ger], night.
Nachtmusik [Ger], serenade.
nach und nach [Ger], by degrees; little by little.
nacré [Fr], nacreous; pearly.
nage [Fr], swimming.
naïf [Fr; fern, naïve], artless; ingenuous; unaffected; natural.
naik [Hind], leader; chief; in a native regiment, a corporal: India.
naissance [Fr], birth; origin; dawn.
naissant [Fr], being born; beginning to be.
naïveté [Fr], native simplicity; ingenuousness; naturalness.
nämlich [Ger], namely; to wit.
nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet [L], when your neighbor's
house is on fire, you are in danger yourself; "no time for sleeping
with a fire next door": Horace (tr. by Conington).
nanook [Esk], polar bear.
nao há de que [Pg], don't mention it: said in reply to "thanks."
nao saber 1er [Pg], not to know reading; not to know black from white.
nao sei [Pg], I do not know.
napoleon [Fr], a pastry.
nat [Burmese], a spirit of the forest and the stream, believed in by the
animists of India and Burma.
natale solum [L], native soil.
natio comoeda est [L], it is a nation of comic actors: Juvenal (of the
decadent Greeks).
natura abhorret a vacuo [L], nature abhors a vacuum: Descartes.
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