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N U M

miles foutl! ean ofPet.,(burg;

E .

long.

34~,

N. lat.

58° .

i. 3n arehbiChop's fee, 20d has I SO ehurehe.

;:¡,nd monaOcries.

NOVOGRODECK, a eity of L i,h"ania, in Poland : E.

long.

25°

30',

N . lat.

53°

45.

NOURISHMENT. S,e NUTRlTION .

NOWE D . in heraldry,

fi~ni6.,

knotted. from the Latio

1JOd:'lluJ

;

being applicd

the tai ls of

fueh

creatures as

are very long, and

Come

times

repre(emed in coar·

~rmour,

tied up in a knot.

IHA,

eouotry of A friea. bounded by the d: fart of

Bare., on the north : by E gypt aod Abyllinia, on th:

ealt; by the L ower Ethiopia. on the fouth ; and by

the def..ts

A frie•. on the \Ven.

NUCHA. \he n' re of the oeck.

NUCIFEROUS T RHS, fu ch as bear nulS .

NUCIFRAGA. io ornithology. See CORVU'.

NUCLEUS, io gener. 1 denotes the keroel of a nut, or

eveo .oy leed ioclofed withio " huO"

Tbe term nuelells is alfo ufed for the body of a eo–

met, otherwif. c..Iled its h!ad.

Se~

A'T RONOM

444·

NUDITIES, io painlÍng and feulpture. denotes thofe

pa"s of aD human figure which are not covered with

any drapery; or thofe parts where the carnation ap·

p" " .

NU LLITY, in law. fignifies aoy thiog that i. null or . oid:

lhus

there

is ..

nullity

muriage,

where

perrons

míilr,.

ry withio the degrees, or where inrants marry without

COnrenl of

their parents or guardiaos.

NUMBER . Seo ARITHMETI C.

Goldm·NuMBER . See ASTRONOMY, p.

49~'

NUM8ER, iD

grammar,amodifi~atlon

of nouns , vcrbs,

&c.

to accommodate them to the varieties in thcir objetls,

eonfidered with regard to oumber. · See GOAMMAR.

NUMBERS,

in poetry. See

V I: RSlfl CAT1 0 N .

0 001

NUMSERS, the fourth book of Ihe Pentateueh,

uking

its

denomination (ro81

Dumbering the (anti–

lie. of !frae!.

A great pan of thi. book is hinorieal, relatiog to

feveral remar\<able palf. ges in the l fraeli le. mareh

through the wildernef. .

eootai o. a dillioét rela–

tion of their feveral movements from one place ro ano–

ther, or the two 2nd forty nages through the ",ilder–

nefs. aod many other thiogs. whereby we." inn rue–

lcd and cODurmed in fome of lhe weightiefi truths that

have immediarc'reference to C ad and his providence

io the world . 13"t the greatell par! of thi. book i.

{pent in enumerating theCe Jaws and ordinances, whe–

lhcr civil or ceremonial, which were given to God , but

not me",iooed before in the

pr~eediog

books.

NOMENIUS, io orni,hology, a genus of birds of the

order of the feolopaees; the be.k of ",hieh i. of a

fi gure approaehing to a ey liodric.1 ODe ; it is obtufe

the pojot, al)d is longer th,fO the toes ; the feet have

eaeh 4 toe., eonoeéted togeth... T hi. geous comp re·

heDds the curlew, the woodcock, tbe grcat plover, and

the foipe. Se< CURLEW,

él•.

~UMERAL LET TE&~,

thofe Im ers of the

alpha~et

N U N

whieh are gcnc ralJy

úrcd

(or figures

on~;

five

X, ten; L,

fi (ty

hundn.d;

fivl!

htm–

ored ; M, • thouraod ;

élc.

N UMERATION, orNoTA 'rJ ON, ioari:hmetie. See

ARITHM ETI C,

P: 366.

NUME R AT O R

oJ' a J'rafiion.

See A RIT II MET IC,

387.

NUME RICAL, N UME ROUS. or NUM ERAL, fometh;o;:

belonging to numbers;

numerical ...Jgebra

tha:

whieh Ol. kes ufe of numbers, inll ead of len ers of

,h~

.Iphabet. Alfo, Dumerie. 1 dilf"enee, i. th : d,ff,.

rence whereby ooe iodividual is dlnioguiO\od from aoo ·

ther. Hence a th ing is (..id

be oUl1lerically the {ame,

wheo it is fo io the Ilriéten fenfe of

~he

word.

NUMIDIA, io orni,hology, a geo'Us beloogi ng tO the

order of gallio",. On eaeh fiJ e of the head th ere is •

kind of eoloured AeChy horo

and the beak ls furniChed

with cere near the noClrils. There is bUI one fp:cies,

a native of Afri, a.

NUMIOIA, the aneient

o.me

ofBilcdulge,id, in Af,ie>.

NUMISMATOGRAPH[A,

term uf<d for Ihe de .

feription aod knowledge of aoeient medals .od eúios,

whether of gold, filoer. Or braf•.

NUMMUS, . mong the R om' Ds, a pieee of mooey

0 -

therwife ealled fe/lenius.

NUN,

a womao, in f<!veral Chrifiian countries, who dl!_

votes herfelf, in a c10iller or nunoery, tu a rcl:g:ous

life.

There \Vere women io the ancient ChriCliaD church

who made public profeffioD of "iróini[y

bef:>r~

t!le

mo~

nafiie life: was known in the world, as appears from

the writings of C ypri.o aod Tertulli. n. Thef:, fo r

d in inétion'. fake, a(e fometime. eall<d eeel<fi.flieJI

virgins, and were com:nonly eorolled in th e: canoo 0:–

ma..icul. of the ehureh. T hey differed froOl the mo–

nafije virgio ehieAy io this, that they lived privately

their father's houecs, whereas the others lived in co:n _

munities : but thei r profelJion of virginity was not

flriél as to

ffiJk.e

criminal in therII to marry aftcr–

ward. if they thought fit. As to Ihe c .•nfeeratioo of

virgios, it had (ome things pecul iar in

it;

it was ufual1 y

performed publicly io Ihe ehureh by the biChop.

Th~

virgio made a publie profellioo of her refolu" ol\, 2nd

theo the biChop put upoo her the a« u/lomed h_bit of

facred virgins. One pan of this habit was a veil, call –

ed lh..: facrum velamen; another was a kind of mitre

or coronel worn upon the head. At preJcnt, wheD

woman is to be made a nun , the habit, "eil, and r:ng

o( Ihe candidate are carrico to the ahar ; ;¡Hld file

h~r·

fe lf, aeeompaoied by her'ncaren relatioos, is eondoétcJ

to the biOlOp, \Vho, after maf. and ao anthem, the fub–

jeét;of whieh is . " that Che ought tO have her lalOp light–

ed, becau(e the bridegroom is coming to' mcet ¡'cr

pronounces the benedillion : then fue rifes

U?,

and the

biChop confeer..es the new habito fprinkliog it with holy

water . When the candid"te h3s

pUl

on her

rdi~ious

h.lbit, Ole prefent. herfclf before the biCho/" anel

fi l\gs on her kn..es,

Ancilla ChrifliJ'um ,

&e. tl"'n Ihe

recc:ves lhe veil. and after\l.'"rds the.

ing.

which

Che is married

Chrifi; aod b'lly th: ero\\'o of vir o

t :

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