| Nicholas II | |
| —n | |
| 1868--1918, tsar of Russia (1894--1917). After the disastrous Russo- Japanese War (1904--05), he was forced to summon a representative assembly, but his continued autocracy and incompetence precipitated the Russian Revolution (1917): he abdicated and was shot | |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |