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+<h1>N</h1>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nectar</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A drink
+served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is
+lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a
+knowledge of its chief ingredient.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">Juno drank a cup of nectar,</p>
+<p class="poetry">But the draught did not affect her.</p>
+<p class="poetry">Juno drank a cup of rye—</p>
+<p class="poetry">Then she bad herself good-bye.</p>
+<p class="citeauth">J. G.</p>
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+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">negro</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The <i>piece de resistance</i> in the American
+political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to
+build their equation thus: “Let n = the white man.” This, however, appears to
+give an unsatisfactory solution.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">neighbor</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> One
+whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to
+make us disobedient.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nepotism</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Appointing
+your grandmother to office for the good of the party.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">Newtonian</span>, <span class="pos">adj.</span> Pertaining
+to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an
+apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and
+disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nihilist</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+Russian who denies the existence of anything but Tolstoi. The leader of the
+school is Tolstoi.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">Nirvana</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> In the
+Buddhist religion, a state of pleasurable annihilation awarded to the wise,
+particularly to those wise enough to understand it.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nobleman</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> Nature’s
+provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and
+suffer high life.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">noise</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A stench
+in the ear. Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of
+civilization.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nominate</span>, <span class="pos">v.</span> To
+designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable
+person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nominee</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently
+seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">non-combatant</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A
+dead Quaker.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nonsense</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The
+objections that are urged against this excellent dictionary.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">nose</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The
+extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have
+great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose
+the organ of quell. It has been observed that one’s nose is never so happy as
+when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have
+drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.</p>
+
+<div class="poem">
+<p class="poetry">There’s a man with a Nose,</p>
+<p class="poetry">And wherever he goes</p>
+<p class="poetry">The people run from him and shout:</p>
+<p class="poetry">“No cotton have we</p>
+<p class="poetry">For our ears if so be</p>
+<p class="poetry">He blow that interminous snout!”</p>
+<p class="poetry">So the lawyers applied</p>
+<p class="poetry">For injunction. “Denied,”</p>
+<p class="poetry">Said the Judge: “the defendant prefixion,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Whate’er it portend,</p>
+<p class="poetry">Appears to transcend</p>
+<p class="poetry">The bounds of this court’s jurisdiction.”</p>
+<p class="citeauth">Arpad Singiny</p>
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+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">notoriety</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The
+fame of one’s competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible
+and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob’s-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage,
+with angels ascending and descending.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">noumenon</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> That
+which exists, as distinguished from that which merely seems to exist, the
+latter being a phenomenon. The noumenon is a bit difficult to locate; it can be
+apprehended only be a process of reasoning—which is a phenomenon. Nevertheless,
+the discovery and exposition of noumena offer a rich field for what Lewes calls
+“the endless variety and excitement of philosophic thought.” Hurrah (therefore)
+for the noumenon!</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">novel</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> A short
+story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature
+that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the
+impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the
+panorama. Unity, totality of effect, is impossible; for besides the few pages
+last read all that is carried in mind is the mere plot of what has gone before.
+To the romance the novel is what photography is to painting. Its distinguishing
+principle, probability, corresponds to the literal actuality of the photograph
+and puts it distinctly into the category of reporting; whereas the free wing of
+the romancer enables him to mount to such altitudes of imagination as he may be
+fitted to attain; and the first three essentials of the literary art are
+imagination, imagination and imagination. The art of writing novels, such as it
+was, is long dead everywhere except in Russia, where it is new. Peace to its
+ashes—some of which have a large sale.</p>
+
+<p class="entry"><span class="def">November</span>, <span class="pos">n.</span> The
+eleventh twelfth of a weariness.</p>
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