نژاد nizhād P or nazhād, s. m. Origin, root, seed, race, family, descent, extraction.

نرچهل nir-chhal S (निर् prep. and छल Fraud) adj. Simple, guileless.

نل नल nal S s. m. 1. A tube, spout, joint of bamboo or other hollow wood. 2. The bamboo which fowlers use to entangle game by applying birdlime to the top of it. نل چلانا nal-chalānā, Setting the bamboos in motion, denotes a ma- gical practice adopted for the discovery of theft. Two pieces of split bamboo, of equal lengths, are applied to one another side by side, and held by two men, one at each end. It is said that any persons taken at random may be em- ployed for this purpose. Then the magician pronounces certain incantations, the efficacy of which is pretended to be such, that the bam- boos spontaneously move towards the place where the thief or the stolen goods are, and drag the men along with them. نل در نل nal dar nal, One tube within another. 3. Name of a king, and hero of several poetical works fa- mous among the Hindūs.

نسيلا nasīlā A. adj. 1. (from نس) Veined. 2. (from نسل) Of good breed.

نچوانا nuchwānā H (caus. of نوچنا) v. a. To cause to pinch or to pluck out, &c.

نوسک nau-sik S̱. s. (dakh.) See نوسکهہ nau-sikh, under نو nau.

نهنا nhannā H adj. (dakh.) Small, little, junior: see ننها nannhā.

ناک nāk P (in compos.) Full, affected with, &c. as, غمناک g̠ẖam-nāk, Affected with grief.

نربدهي निर्बुद्धि nir-buddhi S adj. Void of un- derstanding, senseless, irrational.

نيلکنٿهہ नीलकंठ nīl-kanṭh S s. m. 1. Name of a bird. (Coracias bengalensis). 2. A name of Mahādeva. (He is called by this name because his throat was stained blue by swallowing the poison produced by over-churning the ocean, with the mountain Mandara, by the Surs and Asurs, to procure the amr̤ita). 3. A peacock. 4. Name of a plant. (Hyperanthera mo- runga).