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One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each
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One of the whitish and elastic bundles of fibers, with the accompanying tissues, which transmit nervous impulses between nerve centers and various parts of the animal body. Note: An ordinary nerve is made up of several bundles of nerve fibers, each bundle inclosed in a special sheath and all bound together in a connective tissue sheath and framework containing blood vessels and lymphatics. 2. A sinew or a tendon. Pope. 3. Physical force or steadiness; muscular power and control; constitutional vigor. he led me on to mightiest deeds, Above the nerve of mortal arm. Milton. 4. Steadiness and firmness of mind; self-command in personal danger, or under suffering; unshaken courage and endurance; coolness; pluck; resolution. 5. Audacity; assurance.
Related words: (words related to NERVE)
- ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - TRANSMITTER
One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - NERVELESSNESS
The state of being nerveless. - ANIMALCULIST
1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism. - ANIMAL
1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - ORDINARY
1. According to established order; methodical; settled; regular. "The ordinary forms of law." Addison. 2. Common; customary; usual. Shak. Method is not less reguisite in ordinary conversation that in writing. Addison. 3. Of common rank, quality, - NERVELESS
1. Destitute of nerves. 2. Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne. - TRANSMITTIBLE
Capable of being transmitted; transmissible. - NERVOUSLY
In a nervous manner. - ANIMALCULE
An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - ELASTIC
1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. - SEVERAL
1. Each particular taken singly; an item; a detail; an individual. There was not time enough to hear . . . The severals. Shak. 2. Persons oe objects, more than two, but not very many. Several of them neither rose from any conspicuous family, nor - SEVERALITY
Each particular taken singly; distinction. Bp. Hall. - UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity. - SUBORDINARY
One of several heraldic bearings somewhat less common than an ordinary. See Ordinary. Note: Different writers name different bearings as subordinaries, but the bar, bend, sinister, pile, inescutcheon bordure, gyron, and quarter, are always - UNNERVE
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak. - INELASTICITY
Want of elasticity. - ENERVE
To weaken; to enervate. Milton. - QUINTUPLE-NERVED; QUINTUPLE-RIBBED
The same as Quinquenerved.