Nisus
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Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate feces or urine.
(2): ( n.) A striving; an effort; a conatus.
(3): ( n.) The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
A Trojan youth who accompanied Æneas into Italy, and whose friendship for Euryulus is so pathetically immortalised by Virgil in the ninth book of the "Æneid."
