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[NOTHING.] *næve, *nēve, s. [Lat. nævus=a spot.; Fr. neve. Anævus; a spot or blemish on the skin. [NEVUS.] "So many spots, like næves, our Venus soil?" Dryden: Upon the Death of Lord Hastings. næ-vōse, a. [Eng. nav(e); -ose.] Spotted, freckled. năg, v. t. & i. [Sw. nagga =to nibble, to peck; Dan. nage; Icel. naga =to gnaw (q. v.).] A. Trans.: To find fault with constantly; to scold continually; to be continually pestering with complaints or fault-finding. "Which describes Agnes as having 'nagged' the painter to death."-Athenœum. B. In trans.: To be continually finding fault or scolding. "Forgive me for nagging : I am but a woman."- Reade : Cloister and Hearth , ch. xcvii.