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- Nectar
- n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The
secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe
that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient.
Juno drank a cup of nectar,
J.G.
But the draught did not affect her.
Juno drank a cup of rye —
Then she bade herself good-bye. - need
- American slang, to want.
- Negro
- n. The piece de resistance in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: “Let n = the white man.” This, however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.
- Negro Bill
- 1. a campsite in Moab, Utah named after a black outlaw of local infamy.
- 2. an adorable water fowl frequenting the Colorado River, sporting a politically questionable beak.
- 3. an act of Congress which starts with the words, “Negro wasn’t exactly the word they used back then,” and ends with, “That’s just the way folk talk around here.”
- Neighbor
- n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
- neo-Luddite
- The evolutionary state that follows “cutting-edge early adopter.”
- Nepotism
- n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.
- net art
- Any collection of technologies, sensibilities and aesthetics that causes a Web browser to crash.
- never
- the time span between resolution and desperation.
