nereocestis

[Gr. Nereus =a god of the sea, and kystis =a bag, a sac.] Bot.: A genus of Fucaceae, family Lamina ride. Zool .: A large cup-shaped sea sponge, Thala ema The stem, which is filiform, is many fathoms long. neptuni . IMG:content-1645.png:[blocks in formation] Něp-tün-I-an, a. & s. [Lat. Neptunius = pertaining to Neptune.] A. As adjective : 1. Of or pertaining to the god Neptune. 2. Pertaining to the ocean over which he was represented as ruling; also deposited from the sea. B. As subst .: The same as NEPTUNIST (q. v.). Neptunian Theory or Hypothesis: Geol.: An hypothesis devised by Werner (17501817) to account for the aspect of geological strata. He a umed that the globe had at first been invested by a universal chaotic ocean, holding in solution the materials of all rocks. From these the crystalline rocks were first precipitated, what clearing the waters, after which the so-called transition rocks went down next. The secondary rocks then followed. All igneous agency was ig nored in this scheme. The Neptunian hypothesis has been long since disproved. [AQUEOUS ROCKS, GEOLOGY.] Něp-tu-nist, s . [Eng. Neptun (e); -ist.] One who holds the Neptunian theory (q. v.). Něp-tū-ni-ŭm, s . [NEPTUNE.] Chem.: The name given to what Rose considers a mixture of impure niobium and tantalum, discovered in tantalite by Hermann in 1877. ně quid năm'-Is, phr. (Lat.] Let nothing be done to exce . *ner, *nere, a. & adv . [NEAR.] *nëre (1), s . (NEIR.] A kidney. "The hert of schepe, the nere thou take." Liber Cure Cocorum , p. 52. *nëre (2), subst. [See def.) An ear, then of the article being tacked on to the noun. "Helde thi nere to me, and lithe." -Early Eng. Psalter, Ps. xxx. 3. chin, -tion. 178 bench; go, gem; thin, this; -sion = zhun. -tious, -cio us, It is fixed below by root-like proce es, while above it ends in a siphon about a fathom in length, full of fluid, with a bunch of leaf-like proce es extending some feet from its center. It makes floating islands on the northeast coast of America and the opposite shores of Asia, on which the sea-otter finds a home.