<OL TYPE="1"><LI>nature<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature<LI>as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse<LI>as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature<LI>birth, physical origin<LI>a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature<LI>the sum of innate properties and powers by which one person differs from others, distinctive native peculiarities, natural characteristics: the natural strength, ferocity, and intractability of beasts</OL></OL>