Being such as one or it is by birth or by nature.By birth merely; not legal; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural son: a use which dates from the beginning of the seventeenth century.Native; native-born; indigenous: as, natural citizens or subjects.Produced or implanted at birth or when constituted or made; conferred by nature; inherent or innate; not acquired or assumed: as, natural disposition; natural beauty; a natural gait.Born; being such as one or it is from birth.In keeping with or proper to the nature, character, or constitution; belonging to birth or constitution; normal: as, the natural position of the body in sleep; the natural color of the hair; hence, as easy, spontaneous, etc., as if constituting a part of or proceeding from the very nature or constitution: as, oratory was natural to him.Hence Not strained or affected; without affectation, artificiality, or exaggeration; easy; unaffected: applied to persons or to their conduct or manners, etc.Obedient to the better impulses of one's nature; affectionate; kindly.In a state of nature; unregenerate; carnal; physical.Formed, produced, or brought about by nature, or by the operations of the laws of nature; real; not artificial or cultivated: as, natural scenery; a natural bridge.Being in conformity with the taws of nature; happening in the ordinary course of things, without the intervention of accident or violence; regulated or determined by the laws which govern events, actions, etc.: as, natural consequences; a natural death.Of or pertaining to nature; connected with or relating to the existing system of things; treating of or derived from nature as known to man, or the world of matter and mind; belonging to nature: as, natural philosophy or history; natural religion or theology; natural laws.Same as naturalistic, 3.In mathematics, having 1 as the base of the system: applied to a function or number belonging or referred to such a system: as, natural numbers (that is, those beginning with 1); natural sines, cosines, etc. (those taken in arcs whose radii are 1).In music, a term applied eitherto the diatonic or normal scale of C (see scale); orto an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, changing gradually or but little into nearly related keys; orto music produced by the voice, as distinguished from instrumental music; orto the harmonics or overtones given off by any vibrating body over and above its original sound.Where two different persons, though no agreement express or implied had been made, came into such a relation that the pretor was induced to impute to it some of the legal characteristics of an obligation: for example, the fact of becoming unduly enriched at another person's expense.Where an obligation was imperfect, so that no action could be maintained on it, and yet certain legal effects, which were not the same in all cases, were attributed to it by law. The equivalent English phrase is imperfect obligation.=Syn. 1, 2, and Natal, etc. See native.n. That which is natural to one; natural quality, disposition, or expression.n. A natural gift or endowment.n. One born without the usual faculty of reasoning or understanding; a fool; an idiot.n. A native; an original inhabitant.n. A production of nature.n. An oyster of natural wild growth, not planted.n. In music:n. On the keyboard, a white key (digital) as distinguished from a. black key.n. In notation, the sign ♮, placed before a note to counteract the effect of a sharp or flat in the signature or previously introduced as an accidental.n. A note affected by a ♮, or a tone thus represented.n. A kind of wig worn in England early in the eighteenth century.n. In gaming, anything which wins the stake immediately, such as a throw of 7 or 11 at craps, showing 21 at vingt-et-un, or holding 8 or 9 at baccara. See nick, n., 3.
