William Little

N N (en), the fourteenth letter of the modern, and thirteenth of the ancient Roman alphabet, represents historically, and is in form derived from, the Greek nii and the Semitic nun. It usually denotes a voiced nasal consonant with front closure (the point of the tongue touching the teeth or the...

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This Dictionary is an abridgement officially authorized by the Delegates of the Oxford University Press of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, later known as The Oxford English Dictionary. The need for such an abridged form of the great work was...