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1: a narcotic antagonist (trade name Nalline) that counteracts the effects of narcotics (especially the effects of poisoning by morphine) [syn: {Nalline}]

1: a potent narcotic antagonist (trade name Narcan) especially effective with morphine [syn: {Narcan}]

1: an oral antagonist against the action of opiates

1: weak in willpower [syn: {spineless}, {wishy-washy}] n : an insipid weakling who is foolishly sentimental

1: a language unit by which a person or thing is known; "his name really is George Washington"; "those are two names for the same thing" 2: by the sanction or authority of; "halt in the name of the la...

1: written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location [syn: {address}, {destination}]

1: verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument [syn: {names}]

1: the feast day of a saint whose name one bears

1: someone who pretends that famous people are his/her friends

1: the role of the character after whom the play is named [syn: {title role}]

1: a tag showing the name of the person who wears it

1: the practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress your listener; "the hard thing about name-dropping is to avoid being too obvious about it"

1: given or having a specified name; "they called his name Jesus"; "forces...which Empedocles called `love' and `hate'"; "an actor named Harold Lloyd"; "a building in Cardiff named the Temple of Peace...

1: refer to people that one assumes one's interlocutors admire in order to try to impress them

1: one of the most important fungi cultivated in Japan [syn: {viscid mushroom}, {Pholiota nameko}]

1: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: {unidentified}, {unknown}, {unnamed}]

1: the state of being anonymous [syn: {anonymity}]

1: as follows [syn: {viz.}, {that is to say}, {videlicet}]

1: a plate bearing a name

1: a person who gives a name or names; "the owner is usually the namer of a boat"

1: verbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument [syn: {name calling}]

1: a person with the same name as another

1: a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean

1: a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia form part of the high...

1: of or relating to Namibia or its people n : a native or inhabitant of Namibia

1: inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites" [syn: {appellative}, {naming(a)}] n 1: the verbal act of na...

1: an embroidered rug made from a coarse Indian felt [syn: {numdah}, {numdah rug}]

1: goddess personifying the primeval sea; mother of the gods and of heaven and earth

1: a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River [syn: {Namoi River}]

1: a river in southeastern Australia that flows generally northwest to join the Darling River [syn: {Namoi}]

1: a town in southwestern Idaho

1: a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind [syn: {Namtaru}]

1: a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind [syn: {Namtar}]

1: a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II

1: your grandmother 2: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: {Nan River}] 3: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped l...

1: a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west

1: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: {Nan}]

1: a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang [syn: {Nanchang}]

1: an industrial city in southern China [syn: {Nanning}]

1: a town in southwestern British Columbia on Vancouver Island west of Vancouver

1: Indian religious leader who founded Sikhism in dissent from the caste system of Hinduism; he taught that all men had a right to search for knowledge of God and that spiritual liberation could be at...

1: offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: {fagot}, {faggot}, {fag}, {fairy}, {pansy}, {queen}, {queer}, {poof}, {poove}, {pouf}]

1: a Chadic language spoken in Chad

1: a walled city in southeastern China on the Gan Jiang [syn: {Nan-chang}]

1: a city in northeastern France in Lorraine

1: English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) [syn: {Mitford}, {Nancy Mitford}]

1: English writer of comic novels (1904-1973) [syn: {Mitford}, {Nancy Freeman Mitford}]

1: British politician (born in the United States) who was the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons (1879-1964) [syn: {Astor}, {Viscountess Astor}]

1: a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate [syn: {NAND gate}]

1: a logic gate that produces an output that is the inverse of the output of an AND gate [syn: {NAND circuit}]

1: a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,660 feet high)

1: an androgen (trade names Durabolin or Kabolin) that is used to treat testosterone deficiency or breast cancer or osteoporosis [syn: {Durabolin}, {Kabolin}]

1: smaller of two tall fast-running flightless birds similar to ostriches but three-toed; found from Peru to Strait of Magellan [syn: {rhea}, {Pterocnemia pennata}]

1: a mountain in the Himalayas in Kashmir (26,660 feet high)

1: a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature [syn: {dwarfism}]

1: a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s [syn: {Nanking}]

1: a durable fabric formerly loomed by hand in China from natural cotton having a yellowish color

1: a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s [syn: {Nanjing}]

1: (Norse mythology) wife of Balder 2: god of the moon; counterpart of the Akkadian Sin

1: an industrial city in southern China [syn: {Nan-ning}]