nat

noun

1. 1

   A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.

   They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

adverb

1. 1

   obsoleteNot.

   And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

noun

1. 1

   A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of natatoriumClipping of natatorium.

adjective

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   Variant of naturalslangClipping of natural (“pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result”).

   After rolling a Strength check to move a heavy cabinet, I got a nat 1 and the cabinet fell on me.

   in the Dark Sun campaign I'm playing in, the DM handles crits/fumbles this way: Natural 20: an excellent attack, player gets a bonus attack, if he gets another Nat. 20, he gets a 3rd attack, and so on.

   Almost killed my cleric mage when she was juggling with another bard...missed the juggling check, rolled a nat 20 on the to-hit roll, and rolled maximum damage...and said cleric-mage was already wounded, and recuperating...8P

   But she continued. "I do a Survival check to see if there are any worm people in these puddles... and roll a nat twenty!"

noun

1. 1

   Variant of nationalistClipping of nationalist.

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nats