<B>natant, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>swimming; floating. <DD><B> 2. </B>floating on the surface of water, as a lily pad. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Heraldry.) represented as swimming, or horizontally, as a fish. </DL>
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<B>natation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or art of swimming. </DL>
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<B>natational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with swimming. </DL>
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<B>natatorial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having to do with swimming. <BR> <I>Ex. the natatorial powers of a champion swimmer.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>adapted for swimming. <BR> <I>Ex. Fins and flippers are natatorial organs.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>characterized by swimming. <BR> <I>Ex. Fishes are natatorial animals.</I> </DL>
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<B>natatorium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toriums,</B> <B>-toria.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a swimming pool, especially one in a gymnasium or other building. </DL>
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<B>natch, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) naturally; of course. </DL>
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<B>Natchez, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ez.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an Indian of an extinct Muskhogean tribe that lived along the southern Mississippi River. <DD><B> 2. </B>the language of this tribe. </DL>
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<B>nates, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=buttocks.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>the anterior, larger pair of the optic lobes of the brain. </DL>
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<B>Nathan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a prophet who rebuked King David for having Uriah killed (in the Bible, II Samuel 12:1-14). </DL>
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<B>Nathanael, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> one of the followers of Jesus (in the Bible, John 1:45-51;21:2). </DL>
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<B>natheless, </B>adverb, preposition.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) <DD><I>adv. </I> nevertheless. <BR> <I>Ex. The torrid clime Smote on him sore ... Natheless he so endured (Milton).</I> <DD><I>prep. </I> notwithstanding. </DL>
<B>natica, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cas,</B> <B>-cae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a widespread group of predatory, carnivorous marine snails, having a globose shell with a flattened spire. </DL>
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<B>nation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>the people occupying the same country, united under the same government, and usually speaking the same language. <BR> <I>Ex. The Americans, British, and French are nations. The President appealed to the nation to support his policy.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a sovereign state; country. <BR> <I>Ex. the nations of the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France are nations.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a people, race, or tribe; those having the same descent, language, and history. <BR> <I>Ex. the Armenian nation, the Scottish nation.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a tribe of North American Indians, especially one belonging to a confederacy. <BR> <I>Ex. the Sioux nation.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) a great number; host. <BR> <I>Ex. What a nation of herbs he had procured (Laurence Sterne).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the nations,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>(in the Bible) the heathen nations, or Gentiles. </I> <I>Ex. For all the gods of the nations are idols (Psalms 96:5).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the peoples of the earth. </DL>