Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Net

an open fabric made of thread, twine, or cord, woven into meshes of

Net

an open fabric made of thread, intersections. Nets are used for a great variety of purposes, as for protecting fruit trees, for collecting insects, for hammocks, screens, etc., but chiefly for hunting and fishing. The chief kind of nets used in fishing are the trawl, the hunting and fishing. The chief kind of the trammel or set nets.

Netherlands

THE, or HOLLAND the trammel or set nets.

Neuritis

a term applied to inflammation of the nerves. The The symptoms are those of neuralgia, with impairment of sensation, or localized paralysis, according as sensory or motor nerves are affected.

Neuroptera

in entomology, an order of the class Insecta, in which the older entomologists included all insects possessing four membranous wings, more order of the class Insecta, in which the older entomologists included all insects NEUROPTERA, in entomology, an the peculiar arrangement of cells which occurs in the Hymenoptera.

Neurosis

a name common to disof the nervous system unaceases the peculiar arrangement of cells which occurs in the Hymenoptera. in structure, that is to say, functional diseases of the nervous system. Hysteria, for example, is a neurosis; catalepsy, some forms of mental disease, such as melancholia, various forms of neuralgia and spasm, are called neuroses.

Neurotic

a term introduced into medicine to indicate some relationship to the nervous system. Thus a neurotic disease is a nervous disease. Medicines that affect the nervous system, as opium, strychnine, etc., are called neurotics.

New Amsterdam

the name conferred on the present city of New York by its original Dutch settlers.

Newcastle-Under-Lyme

a parſiamentary and municipal borough of Staffordshire, England, on the Lyme brook, 147 miles N. W. by N. of London.

Brewing, malting, and the making of paper and army clothing are the principal industries, while the surrounding district is noted for its potteries, and numerous coal mines are worked. Pop. about 21,000.

New England

a collective name given to the six Eastern States of the United States of America, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, embracing an area of 66,400 square miles. The area of New England is one-fiftieth of the total area of the United States.

New Hanover

an island of the Bismarck archipelago; off the N. E. coast of New Guinea, with an area of 530 square miles.

New Leon

or NUEVO LEON (nūa-vē lā-ōn), an inland State of Mexico; area, 25,032 square miles. It is mountainous but fertile, and lead, gold, silver, and salt are worked; capital Monterey, about 75,000. Pop. about 380,000.

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