nitty (1)

[Eng. nit; -y.] Abounding with nits; lousy. ( Ben Jonson: Poetaster, iii. 1.) *nit-tỹ (2), *nit-tie, a. [Lat. nitid us shining; niteo to shine.] Shining, spruce, elegant, neat. "O dapper, rare, complete, sweet nittie youth." Marston: Satires, iii. (1598.) nitzsch-i-a, s. [Named after Prof. Nitzsch of Halle, who studied the Anoplura, .] 1. Bot.: A genus of Diatomacese 2. Entom.: A genus of Anoplura. Nitzschia bur meister i is the Louse of the Common Swift. 3. Zool .: A genus of Annul at a. pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, põt, The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia IMG:content-0076.png:[blocks in formation] "To whom we gave place by subjection, no , not for an hour."- Galatians ii. 5. (3) When it introduces an amplification of a previous negation. ""The devil himself could not pronounce a title More hateful to mine ear.' ' No , nor more fearful." Shakesp.: Macbeth , v. 7. (4) To strengthen a following negative. " No , not the bow which so adorns the skies, So glorious is, or boasts so many dyes." Waller: On a Brede of Divers Colors. 3. No is used as equivalent for not , when standing as the correlative of whether or if . "Is she wedded or no?"-Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , ii. B. As substantive: 1. The word of denial or refusal; a denial, a refusal. 2. A person who votes in the negative; a negative vote; as, The noes have it.