Nath"less (?), adv. [OE. natheles, na the les, not the less, AS. n
never. See Na, The, conj., and cf. Nevertheless.] Nevertheless.
[Archaic] Chaucer. Milton. E. Arnold.
Nath"more` (?), adv. [OE. na the more.] Not the more; never the more.
[Obs.] penser.
Nat"i*ca (?), n.; pl. Naticas (&?;), L. NaticÆ (- s). (Zoöl.) Any one
of numerous species of marine gastropods belonging to Natica, Lunatia,
Neverita, and other allied genera (family Naticidæ.) They burrow
beneath the sand, or mud, and drill other shells.
Nat"i*coid (?), a. [Natica + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or belonging to
Natica, or the family Naticidæ.
Na"tion (?), n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born,
fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnasci, from the
same root as E. kin. √44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate,
Natal, Native.] 1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the
earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or
institutions; a race; a stock.
All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
Rev. vii. 9.
2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent
government of their own.
A nation is the unity of a people.
Coleridge.
Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
F. S. Key.