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'NOLA, a towo of Italy. in the kingdomofN.ples, fi,u o
ated 16 miles eall of N.ples.
NOLI, a town of Italy in ,he terri,ory of C eno., fituated
on the bay of C.ooa, thiny five miles foulh wel! of
,h.. ei,y.
NOMARCHo-\' in Egyptian antiqui,y, the governor or
eommander of a nome. Egypt was aneientl)' divided inlO
feveral regioos or quarters, called nomes.
NOMRRE DE DIOS, a town of Mexico, in the province
of Oarien, a linle to ,he eaOward of POI 'o Bello: W.
long. 830, and N . lato 100.
NOMBRIL POINT, in heraldry, is the next below
,he (efs painl, or the very centre of lhe ercutcheon.
See POI"T.
Suppofiog the efeuteheon divided ioto two equal part.
below the f<fs, the 6rO of thefe di vifioos is the ootnbril,
and the lower the bare.
NOME, or NAME, ioalgebra, deoo,es aoyquantitywith
• fisn prefixed Or aJded 10 it, whereby i, is eonncEled
with fomeolher quantity, upon wbich lhe whole becomes
a binomial, trinomial, orfhe like. See ALGtBRA .
N OMENCLATOR, in Romao aotiqui", was ufually
a Oave, who atteoded upoo perfon. that Oood eaodidates
for olliees, and promp,ed or fuggeOed 10 them lhe
Dames of all the citiZCDS tbey mel, lhal [hey might caun
them, ' and ..11 them by thdr names; whieh, among
t~at people, was the higheO pieee o( eivility.
NOMENCLATORES , .mong lhe botanieal .uth~,",
are thofe who have employed their labours aboo, feto
t1ing aod adjuOing lhe right names, fyoooymes, a]1d
etymologie. of oames, in regard 10 the whole vegeuble
world.
NOME.NCLATURE, a caJalogoeo( feveral o(¡he more
ufuaJ wards in any Janguage, with their fign ifications,
eompiled in order 'o faeilitate the ufe of fueh words
to thofe who are to learo the tonsue: fueh are our
Latin, Greek, FrcDch, Oc. nomenclatures .
NOMINALS, NOMI~ALlSTS, afeél o(fehool philofo o
phers, Ihe difeiples and followers of Oeeam . or Ocham,
an EngliOl eordelier, in the X1V,h een,ury. They
were greu dealcrs in words, whenee they were ~utgarly
denomioated wordofellers ¡ bOl had the denominatioo
ofnominalifts, beeaufe tbat, in oppofition to the realins,
they maintained lhat words, and not lhings, were the
objeél of di.leBie•.
NOMINATIVE, io grammal, ,he fira cafe of nouns
whieb are dee1inable. 8ee G IlA M \'t1 A R. .
NONACE, in - I,w, generall y fignifies al1 the time a
perron eontinues under lhe age of one and twenry i but"
in a fp.eial feofe, it is all Ihe time a perfoo i. under
the age o( (ourteen.
NONocAPE, in geography, a promonlory on the wea
coa(l o( Afriea, oppofite 10 ,he Canary iO.ods.
NONoENTRY; in SeOl! law. See LAW, Tit. xii . S.
N ONoNATU ..ALS, in medicine, fo cal1ed becaufe by their
abufe ,bey become Ihe eaufe. "f difea fes .
Phylici-tns have divided the non·nalural5- into f'ix
claeres. viz . ,he air, meats and drinks, flcep and
w¡uching, mallan and ren, tbe paffiODs of lhe mind,
ahe relendolls and exer~tions.
VOL.llI. N°, S6. 1.
N O R
~ ON " UIT, fignifies the dropping of a fui, or aélion, or
a reoou ncing ,hereof by ,he plaio,ifl' or de(endan,.
N ONCONFORM1STS. See OISSENTERS .
NONE, one of the feveo eanonieal hou," j n Ihe Romirh
church, anCwering [O three o'clock in the a(lernoon.
No.. s, in ,he R oman kalenda r, the 6(,h day of ,he
moo,hs January, february, April, J une, AuguO, Sep–
tember, November, and December; and the revcotp
of Mareh, Mal', July, and Oélober. March. Mal',
]uly, and OOober, had fix day. io ,heir nones ¡ be–
cauCe lheCe alone, in the ancient eoollilution of lbe
year by Numa, had thirtyoone day. aopiece, the rert
baving only ,weo'Yonine, and February thirty : bu,
wheo Cref.r re(ormed the year, aod made other mon,h.
eontain thirty one days, he did nOI allot them fix day.
of oooes. See K"LENDAR .
NORDEN, a port-town of Germany, io ,be drde of
W eOphalia, and eoun,y of Embden, ,welve mile.
north o( Erobden.
NORFOLK, a eouoty of England, bounded by the
C erman fea on the oorth and eaa ¡ by Suft'olk oa the
[ou,h, aod by the fen, of L incolnfhire and <he iíle of
Ely on the weO.
NORFOLK, a eounly of Virgioia, oorth o( Carolioa.
and contiguous lO that provinee.
NORMANOY, a provinee of France, bouoded by tbe
eall chaonel"o Ihe north, by Pieardy and the iOe of
France on the wea, by Orleanoi. on the fou,h, bY'
Britany aod another part of Ihe ea(l cbaDoe! on tlao
wea.
NORROY, the title of tbe third of <he three kinss at'
arms.
NORTH, ooe o( tbe four cardinal poio". See NAVt–
CATION .
NORTH CVRRY, a market-town of 8omerfttlhire, fe–
venteen miles [ou,howeO o( Wells.
NORTH FOR ELÁN D, a cape in the iOc of Thanet, oo'
the eaO eoaO o( Kent. four miles ean orMargate.
NORTH SEA, a namegiven toall that partof tbeAt.
lanlÍe Ocean which Jie, oorth of Terr. Firma, i...
South America.
NORTHowEST pa.l!ttgr. A oorthowea pall'age by Hud–
foo's Bay, ioto the paei6c oeean, has beco more than
once attempted of late years, but hitherto without
fu ccefs. Some sreatly doubt of Ihe praélieableoef.
of fu eh an t nterprize, and th ink. me obCervatioos madc
by the R umans give us fmall laopes. Some general
things OJal' be feen in Ihe Phil. Traoe N ° 48,.
14' h appean (rom thenee, that the Ruffiaos have
pall'ed bet weeo the laod of Nova Zembl., and the
eoafl o( Afia; aon. as Ihe Du,eh did formerly difco–
ver the Dorthero coaCls of Nova Zembla, we m,tY now
be well ,lI'ured tha' ,hat eouolry is reaUy an .
'NORTHALLERTON, a boroush, lown of Ihe nortb·
riding of Yorkrhire, Iwentyotwo miles northoweO of
York . h rends two members to parliament.
NORTHAMPTON, the capital of Nonhamptonlhire,
liluared 00 ,he river Nen: W.long. SS', aodN. lat "
52° I S'. lt Cends tWO members tO parliament.
NOkTHAMPTON, is alfo aeounty ofVirgini., io No,,!;,
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