Nethinim

pl. [Heb. Nethinim, from nathan to give, to dedicate.] Jewish Antiq .: An order of hereditary attendants on the Levites in the services of the second Temple. They were to do the more menial part of the work. It is supposed that the Gibeonites originally held a similar office (Joshua, ix. 21-27.) At the return from Babylon. 392 accompanied Zerubbabel (Ezra ii. 58, Neh. vii. 60), and 220 came with Ezra (Ezra viii. 17, 20); 612 in all. *nět'-l-fy, v. t. [Eng. net, a.; -fy.] To make neat; to set or put in order. [NEATIFY.] nětt, a . [NET, a.] foot. net-ta-pus,. [Gr. nett a =a duck, and pous =a Ornith.: A genus of Anatidae, with four species, ranging from tropical Africa, Madagascar, India and Ceylon, to the Malay n peninsula and Australia. Nettapus coromandel nus is the Pigmy goose. nět-tăs-tô-ma, subst. [Gr. nett a =a duck, and stoma the mouth.] Ichthy.: A deep-sea genus of Murænide (q. v.). Scalele , snout much-pr duced; bands of card like teeth on jaws and vomer; nostrils on upper surface of head, valvular. Nett a stoma parviceps , a Japanese species, has been taken at 345 fathoms. N. melanurum , from the Mediterranean, seems to inhabit a similar depth. ( Günther .) nět-těd, a. [Eng.net, s.;- ed.] 1. Ord . Lang .: Made or worked into a net or network; reticulated. 2. Botany ( of leaves, .): (1) Gen.: Having the veins reticulated. All those requisite to constitute a completely developed leaf are present, but with no peculiar combination. It is the common arrangement in an exogenous leaf. (2) Spec .: Covered with reticulated lines which project a little. netted-carpet, s. Entom.: A British moth, Cidaria reticulata. netted mountain-moth, s. Entom.: A British moth, Fidonia carbon aria . C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: IMG:content-0020.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The genus Urtica, containing various stinging plants. (URTICA.] 2. Various plants more or le resembling the net tle in leaf, as the Dead-nettle (q. v.). * Nettle in , dock out : A proverbial expre ion, expre ive of inconstancy or ficklene ; the trying of one thing after another, in allusion to the com mon practice when persons are stung with a nettle, of rubbing the place with a dock-leaf. "Nettle in, dock out, now this, now that, Pandare?" Chaucer: Troilus and Cre ida, bk. iv. nettle-blight, s. Bot.: Æcidium urtica , a parasitic fungus com. mon on nettles. nettle-broth, subst. A dish made with nettles, gathered in March or April, before they show any flowers. nettle-butterfly, s. Entom.: Vane a urtica. nettle-cloth, s. Fabric : A thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather. nettle-creeper, subst. A popular name for the Whitethroat (q.v.). nettle-rash, s. IMG:content-0021.png:[blocks in formation] Bot .: Celtis occidental is. [CELTIS.] nět-tle, v. t. [NETTLE, s.] To sting, to provoke, to irritate, to rouse feelings of displeasure or irritation in. "I've nettled somebody full sore." Fawkes : Theocritus, Idy. 5. nět-tler, s . [Eng. nett i(e), v.; -er.] One who nettles, provokes, or irritates another. "But these are the nettlers , these are the blabbing books that tell."- Milton : Animad . upon the Remonstrant's De fense, .