(historical, originally) A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.

Undomesticated animals; wild beasts.

of a domestic nature. / (law) applied to domestic animals which can be claimed as their property.

From the nature of things; from the nature of the case; from nature; applied to arguments based on observation or experiment, as opposed to pure reason.

The ability of the body to heal itself without intervention.

A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons associated with petroleum deposits; mostly methane with smaller amounts of ethane, propane and butane; principally used as a fuel.

Existing in the nature of a person or thing; innate, not acquired or learned. / Normally associated with a particular person or thing; inherently related to the nature of a thing or creature.

(now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc. / (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental. / (music) The symbol ♮ used to indicate such a natural note.

(colloquial, dialect) Naturally; in a natural manner.

(mathematics) The set of positive integers, {1, 2, 3, ...}. / (mathematics, computer science) The set of non-negative integers, {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.