None could tell whose turn should be the next.
Gay.
4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next
heir was an infant.
The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
Ruth ii. 20.
Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes
omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a
preposition.
Next friend (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or
any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.
Next, adv. In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately
succeeding; as, this man follows next.
||Nex"us (?), n. [L.] Connection; tie.
Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus . . . extending from the
new-born infant to the superannuated dotard.
De Quincey.
||Nez" Per`cés" (?), pl.; sing. Nez PercÉ (&?;). [F., pierced noses.]
||(Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians, mostly inhabiting Idaho.
||Ngi"na (?), n. [Native name.] The gorilla.
Ni*ag"a*ra pe"ri*od (?). (Geol.) A subdivision or the American Upper
Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The
rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively
distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale
supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually
undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.
Ni"as (?), n. [F. niais. See Eyas.] A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an
unsophisticated person. [Obs.]
Nib (nb), n. [A variabt of neb.] 1. A small and pointed thing or part;
a point; a prong. "The little nib or fructifying principle." Sir T.
Browne.