noun. Any of various plants of the genus Urtica, having toothed leaves, unisexual apetalous flowers, and stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact.

noun. Any of various hairy, stinging, or prickly plants.

transitive verb. To sting with or as if with a nettle.

transitive verb. To irritate; vex.

To sting; irritate or vex; provoke; pique.

noun. Nautical, same as knittle, 2.

noun. The white dead-nettle, Lamium album.

noun. A herbaceous plant of the genus Urtica, armed with stinging hairs.

noun. One of several plants of other genera of the nettle family (Urticaceæ); any nettle-like plant: generally with a qualifying word.

transitive verb. To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.

noun. A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracilis is common in the Northern, and Urtica chamædryoides in the Southern, United States. The common European species, Urtica urens and Urtica dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. Urtica pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.

noun. a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and used as a substitute for leather for various purposes.

noun. an eruptive disease resembling the effects of whipping with nettles.

noun. a medusa.

noun. A herb of the genus Urtica, which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

noun. The non-stinging plant deadnettle, also in the nettle family, Urticaceae.

noun. Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea-nettle.

verb. Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

verb. To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.

noun. any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)

verb. cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations

verb. sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation

"He will make over to the ignominy of ignorant and barbaric ages, -- 'for we call a nettle but a nettle,' he will turn into a forgotten pageant of the rude, early, instinctive ages, the yet brutal ages of an undeveloped humanity, that triumphant reception at home, of the Conqueror of Foreign States."

bee-nettle  blind nettle  burning nettle  canada nettle  chili nettle  

deadnettle  grasp the nettle  hemp-nettle  nettle rash  nettled  

bite  burn  sting  

Gretel  betel  kettle  metal  mettle  

asphodel  bramble  briar  catnip  chamomile  

aggravate  agitate  annoy  arouse  badger  

nettled  nettles  nettling