1) nature
    1a) the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
        1a) as opposed to what is monstrous, abnormal, perverse
        1b) as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the
            natural branches, i.e. branches by the operation of nature
    1b) birth, physical origin
    1c) a mode of feeling and acting which by long habit has become nature
    1d) 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