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Nepenthe
- - A drug used by the ancients to give relief from pain and sorrow; -- by some supposed to have been opium or hasheesh. Hence, anything soothing and comforting.
Nereites
- - Fossil tracks of annelids.
Nevelson
- noun - United States sculptor (born in Russia) known for massive shapes of painted wood (1899-1988)
Oedemata
- noun - swelling from excessive accumulation of watery fluid in cells, tissues, or serous cavities
Pederast
- noun - a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
Pederero
- - A term formerly applied to a short piece of chambered ordnance.
Pedestal
- noun -
- A bone in the sternum of a dromedary
- a position of great esteem (and supposed superiority); "they put him on a pedestal"
- an architectural support or base (as for a column or statue)
Pelecoid
- - A figure, somewhat hatched-shaped, bounded by a semicircle and two inverted quadrants, and equal in area to the square ABCD inclosed by the chords of the four quadrants.