n. A sinew, tendon, or other hard white cord of the body: the original meaning of the word, at the time when nervous tissue was not distinguished from some forms of connective tissue. See aponeurosis.n. In anatomy, a nerve-fiber, or usually a bundle of nerve-fibers, running from a central ganglionic organ to peripheral mechanisms, either active (as glands and muscles) or receptive (sense-organs).n. Something resembling a nerve (either a sinew, as in the earlier figurative uses, or a nerve in the present sense, 2) in form or function.n. Strength of sinew; bodily strength; firmness or vigor of body; muscular power; brawn.n. Force; energy; spirit; dash.n. Assurance: boldness; cheek.n. plural Hysterical nervousness. See nervousness .n. In entomology, a nervure; a vein; a costa; one of the tubular ridges or thickenings which ramify in the wings. See nervure, 3.n. In botany, one of a system of ribs or principal veins in a leaf. See nervation.n. In architecture, same as nervure, 1.n. A technical name applied to the non-porous quality acquired by cork when, in its preparation for use in the arts, its surface is slightly charred by heat, and its pores are thus closed.n. Branches of the pneumogastric to the cardiac plexus, variable in number. Those arising in the neck are called cervical cardiac; in the thorax, thoracic.n. Anterior dental nerve, a branch of the superior maxillary supplying tile upper front teeth and contiguous part of the antrum. Also called superior anterior alveolarn. Inferior dental nerve, the largest branch of the inferior maxillary, running through the inferior dental canal and supplying the teeth of the lower jaw. It, gives off the mylohyoid and mental branches. Also called inferior alveolarn. Posterior dental nerve, a branch of the superior maxillary distributed to the mucous membrane of the cheek and gum and the back teeth of the upper jaw. Also called posterior superior alveolar.n. The glossopharyngeal, vagus, and spinal accessory nerves.n. Of the foot, slender branches of the anterior tibial to the metatarso-phalangeal articulationsn. Posterior, the larger terminal division of the musculospiral. It supplies the short supinator and all the extensor muscles on the back of the arm, except, the long radiocarpal.n. The pars intermedia of the facial nerve.n. The hypoglossal nerve.n. The facial and auditory nerves.To give nerve to; supply strength or vigor to; arm with force, physical or moral: as, rage nerved his arm.