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2. A cousin. [Obs.] Shak.

3. The son of a brother or a sister, or of a
brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Chaucer.

||Neph"i*lim (?), n. pl. [Heb.
n&ebreve;phīlīm.] Giants. Gen. vi.
4. Num. xiii. 33.

Neph"o*scope (?), n. [Gr. &?; a cloud +
-scope.] (Meteorol.) An instrument for observing
the clouds and their velocity.

{ ||Ne*phral"gi*a (?), Ne*phral"gy (?) },
n. [NL. nephralgia, fr. Gr. &?; a kidney +
&?; pain: cf. F. néphralgie.] (Med.)
Neuralgia of the kidneys; a disease characterized by pain in the
region of the kidneys without any structural lesion of the
latter. Quain.

Ne*phrid"i*al (?), a. (Zoöl. &
Anat.) Of or pertaining to a nephridium.

||Ne*phrid"i*um (?), n.; pl.
Nephridia (#). [NL., fr. Gr. &?; of the
kidneys.] (Zoöl. & Anat.


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