Ne Exeat Regno
Ne Exeat Regno, Is A Writ Which Issues Out Of Chancery On The Application Of A Complainant, To Prevent His Debtor From Leaving The Realm, Being, In Short, The Capias Of The Court Of Chancery. It Is Directed To The Sheriff Of The County In Which The Debtor Is ; ...
Nebulye
Nebulye. A Class Of Objects In The Sidereal Heavens, Distinguish Able By A Dim Light And The Absence Of Any Definite Outline. The Earliest Notice Of Nebulae Is To Be Found In The Syntax's ' Of Ptolemy, Who Has Inserted Five Objects In His Catalogue Under The Appellation Of Cloudy ...
Needle Manufacture
Needle Manufacture. This Branch Of Industry Is Supposed To Have Originated In Spain, From The •circumatance Of The Name Spanish Needles Being Originally Used In England, Although The Art Wwi Brought Here From Germany. Needles Were First Made In England About The Year 1565, By Elias Crowse Or Krause, A ...
Negative Quantities
Negative Quantities. This Subject Is Considered, As A Part Of The Most Complete Algebra, In The Article Algetitia. In The Present Article We Confine Ourselves To Such A View As May Be Sufficient For Ordinary Algebra. In The Oldest Treatises On Algebra Which Exist, There Is Mention Of A Modification ...
Nemesis
Nemesis (niaecris), A Female Greek Divinity, Who Appears To Have Been Regarded As The Personification Of The Righteous Anger Of The Gods. She Is Represented As Inflexibly Severe To The Proud And Insolent (pans., I. 33, § 2.); But She Also Sets Right The Inequalities Of Fortune, And Avenges Wrong ...
Nephritis
Nephritis, Inflammation Of The Substance Of The Kidney. Idio Pathic Nephritis Is A Very Rare Disease. When Present More Or Less Pain Is Felt In The Region Of The Kidney, Which Is Sometimes Referred To The Umbilicus. The Pain Also Shoots Along The Ureters, And There Is A Sense Of ...
Neptune
Neptune, The Most Remote Of The Known Members Of The Plane Tary System. The Discovery Of This Planet By Means Of An Investigation Founded On The Perturbations Which It Produces In The Movement Of The Neighbouring Planet Uranus, Must Ever Be Regarded As One Of The Most Brilliant Feats In ...
Neros Saros
Saros, Neros, Sosos. These Names Are From The Fragments Left Of Berosus, Who Says That The Chaldttans Bad Three Astronomical Periods So Called, The Saros Of 3600 Years, The,neros Of 600 Years, And The Sows Of 60 Years. Of The Two Latter We Know Nothing More, And As To The ...
Nesir Eddin Mohammed Humaion
Humaion, Nesir-eddin Mohammed, The Sou Of Daher, And The Second Emperor Of The Tartar, Or As It Is More Usually Called, The Mogul Dynasty In Hindustan, Was Born At Cebu!, A.tr. 913 (a.d. 1508). He Accompanied His Father Saber In His Invasion Of Ilinduatan, A.tr. 932 (s.n. 1525), And Commanded ...
Neuralgia
Neuralgia, A Word Of Modern Origin (derived From Rei]por, A " Nerve," And" Pain " ), First Employed By Chaussier To Designate A Certain Class Of Aiseases Of Which The Characteristic Symptom Is A Most Acute Pain Following The Course Of A Nerve In One Or More Of Its Ramifications, ...
Neutral Axis
Neutral Axis. The Neutral Axis Of A Loaded Body Is An Imagi Nary Line, Separating Those Portions Of The Body Which Are Exposed To The Action Of Opposite Forces; As For Instance, In The Cases Of Girders, Or Occasionally Of Columns, There Arc Some Laud= Which Are Exposed To Compression, ...
New Shoreham
Shoreham, New, Sussex, A Market-town, Sea-port, And Parlia Mentary Borough, In The Parish Of New Shoreham, Is Situated On The Left Bank And Near The Mouth Of The River Adur, In 50° 50' N. Lat., 0° 17' W. Long., Distant 24 Miles E. By S. From Chichester, 56 Miles S. ...
New South Wales
Wales, New South, Extends Over Tho South-eastern Portion Of Australia. Its Western Boundary Has Been Fixed By The Grant Of The Colony Of Southern Australia, Whose Eastern Boundary Extends From The Shores Of The Southern Sea Along 141° Ii Long. To 26° S. Lat. The Northern Boundary-line Of New South ...
New Woodstock
Woodstock, New, Oxfordshire, A Parliamentary And Municipal Borough, And The Seat Of A Poor-law Union, In The Pariah Of Wood Stock, Is Situated On Rising Ground On The Left Bank Of The Olyme, A Stream Which Is Expanded Into A Lake In Blenheim Park, In 51° 51' N. Lat., 1' ...
New Years Day
New-years-day. Of The Customs Formerly Practised At The Opening Of The New-year, None Appear To Have Been So Universal As Fesnting And Sending Presents, Both Of Which The Moderns Appear To Have Derived From The Lioniane. Suetouiva (' August.' §57,edit. Varier., 8vo. 1647) Alludes To The Practice Among The Romani, ...
New Zealand
Zealand, New, Ono Of The British Colonies, Consists Of A Group Of Islands Situated In The Paciflo Ocean And In The Southern Hemisphere. Tide Group Includes Two Largo Islands And A Small Island At The South Ern Cud Of Them. Many Other Islands Still Smaller Are Scattered Along The Shores. ...
Newspapers
Newspapers. Some Persons Are Of Opinion That The Origin Of Newspapers May Be Traced To The ' Acta Diurna ' Of The Lloniane. [acre Diense.] However This May Be, It Was Not Till The ]6th Century That Anything At All Approaching To The Nature Of The Acta Diuma ' Existed ...
Niche
Niche (from The Italian Niechia, Signifying Also A Nook), A Small Recess, Or Concavity In The Face Of A Wall For The Purpose Of Containing A Statue. The Greeks Rarely Employed Statues As External Decorations To Their Edifices, Sculpture Being So Applied By Them Only As Friezes, Or Within Pediments, ...
Nicholas Freiet
Frei:et, Nicholas, Born At Paris In 1688, Was The Son Of A Solicitor. Lie Studied The Law To Please His Family, But Devoted His Attention Chiefly To The Study Of History And Chronology. Ilia First Publication, Origine Des Francais Et De Leur Establissement Dans Ica Claulas,' Is Written With A ...
Nicholas Hawks110011
Hawks110011, Nicholas, The Architect Of Many Buildings Of Note In The Early Part Of The 18th Century, Was Born In 1666, And At The Age Of Seventeen Became The Pupil Of Sir Christopher Wren. Beyond This We Possess Very Few Personal Details Relative To Him. His Works, If They Do ...
Nicholas Louis De La Caille
La. Caille, Nicholas-louis De. The Following Account Is Almost Entirely From Delambre, Either From The Memoir By Him Inserted In The 'biographic Universeue; Or The ' Hist. De L'astron. Au Memo Siecle.' There Are Two Eloges, One By Grandjean De Fouchy, The Other By G. Brotier, Prefixed To The 'ccelum ...
Nickel
Nickel (ni). A Well Known Elementary Metal. It Is Extensively Used In The Manufacture Of The So-called Nickel-silvcr, German-silver, And Similar White Alloys. Its Natural History And Physical Properties Together With The Source And Composition Of Its Ores Have Already Been Described. [nickel, In Nat. Hist. Drv.] A Method Of ...
Nicodemus Frischlin
Frischlin, Nicodemus, Born In 1547, Was The Sou Of A Protestant Clergyman In The Duchy Of Wiirtemberg. Lie Showed At An Early Age A Great Aptitude For The Study Of Languages, Became An Accomplished Scholar, And Was Made Professor In The University Of Tubingen, Where He Wrote His Paraphrases Of ...
Nicolas Anne Theodule Changarnier
* Changarnier, Nicolas-anne-theodule, The Recent Confidant, And To Some Extent The Rival Of Louis Napoleon, Was Born At Autun, On The 26th Of April 1793. In Early Life, He Was A Strong Partisan Of The Legitimist Cause, Having Served In The King's Body Guard, Which He Entered As A Private, ...
Nicolas Hartsoeker
Hartsoeker, Nicolas, A Dutch Natural Philosopher, Was Born At Gouda In 1656: His Father, Who Was A Minister Of The Reformed Religion, Intended That He Ahould Eater The Church As A Profession ; But A Taste For The Sciences, Which The Youth Early Evinced, Prevented This Intention From Being Carried ...
Nicolas Laniere
Laniere, Nicolas, A Painter, Engraver, And Musician, Was Born In 1568, And Was An Italian By Birth. -he Was A Favourite With Charles I., Who Employed Biro In The Purchase Of Pictures. Walpole Supposes That He Was Employed In The Purchase Of The Gallery Of The Duke Of Mantua, For ...
Nicolas Loir
.loir, Nicolas, A Distinguished French Painter And Etcher, Was Born At Paris In 1624. Ilia Father Was An Eminent Jeweller, And He Placed Nicolas With Sebastien Bourdon, And Sent Him Afterwards, In 1647, To Complete His Studies In Rome. Here Loir Studied Chiefly The Works Of N. Poussin, And So ...
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus, Nicola'us. The Real Name Was Copernik, Or, According To Others, Zepernic. Wo Shall Not Discuss Either This, Or The Somewhat More Important Question, Whether He Was Born, Asjuncti Nue Asserts, At 38 Minutes Past Four On The 19th Of January 1472; Or, Se 31cestlinus Asserts, At 48 Minutes Past ...
Nicolo Jomelli
Jomelli, Nicolo, One Of The Few Celebrated Composers Of The Early Part Of The Last Century, Whose Works Justify The Eueomiums Bestowed On Them, Was Born In 1714, Nt Averea, According To Mattei At Avellino, Says Burney—both Places Being Near Naples. He Was Initiated In Music By The Canon Muzzillo, ...
Nicotiana Taiirc Um
Nicotia'na Taiirc Um, An Annual Plant, Of Which The Leaves Are Used In A Variety Of Forms And Ways, And Also In Medicine. The Dried Leaven Are Large, Long, Entire, Smooth, Somewhat Glutinous, And Of A Brown Colour, With A Peculiar Stupifying Odour, And An Acrid, Nauseous, Bitter Taste. The ...
Niello
Niello Is A Method Of Ornamenting Metal Plates, Practised Chiefly During The Middle Ages Upon The Plate—which Was Most Commonly Of Silver, But Sometimes Of Gold Or Copper—the Design Was First Sketched With A Style, And Then Somewhat Deeply Engraved With A Burin Or Graver. [esenasio.] The Lines Thus Incised ...
Nikolai Mikhaelovitch Karamsin
Karamsin, Nikolai Mikhaelovitch, One Of The Most Eminent Writers That Russia Has Yet Produced, And The One To Whom Its Literature Is Mainly Indebted For The Popularity It Has Acquired, And The Rapid Progress It Has Made Since The Commencement Of The Present Century, Was Born In The Government Of ...
Nikolay Gogol
Gogol, Nikolay, A Russian Author Of Great Celebrity, Whose Career Throws A Light On Several Points Of The Moral And Political State Of His Country. He Was Born Apparently About 1810, In Malorusaia, Or Little Russia, The Inhabitants Of Which Are Distinguished From Those Of Great Russia By Vivacity Of ...
Ninon De Lenclos
L'enclos, Ninon De, Was Born In 1616, Of A Noble Though Not Very Rich Family Of Touraine. Her Mother Wished To Make Her A Nun, But Her Father, Who Was A Man Of Pleasure, Directed His Daughter's Ideas In A Very Different Course, Giving Her Very Leose Notions Of Morality, ...
Nisan
Nisan Is The Seventh Month Of The Jewish Civil Year. It Was Anciently The First Month Of The Year, As Appears From The Book Of Esther, Iii. 7. The Name Occurs Twice Iu The Bible, Once In Esther, As Just Mentioned, And Again In Neilsen. Ii. 1. It Is Also ...
Nisi
Nisi This Phrase In English Law Is Derived From An Ancient Writ In Which The Words Occur. Previously To The Time Of Edward I., Trials By Assizes Or Juries Could Only Take Place In The Curia Regis, Wherever The King Happened To Be Resident, Or Before The Justices In Eyre ...
Nitric Acid
Nitric Acid, Medical Properties Of. This Acid Iu A Concentrated Form Acts As A Violent Corrosive Poison, And Is Therefore Never Used In An Undiluted State For Internal Administration, But Is Sometimes Applied Externally, When The Object Is To Effect The Speedy Destruction Of Any Part. Nitric Acid However, From ...
Nitro1ydrochlor1c Acid
Nitro1]ydrochlor1c Acid. Aitromurfoticacid. Aquallegia. A Powerfully Corrosive Liquid, Formed On Mixing One Measure Of Nitric Acid With About Three Of Hydrochloric Acid. The Alchemists Called It Aqua Regia, From Its Property Of Dissolving Gold, Their " King Of Metals." It Also Attacks And Dissolves Platinum, And Of Course Exerts The ...
Nitrogen
Nitrogen. This Gas Constitutes Seventy-nine Hundredths, Or About Four-fifths, Of The Atmosphere. Its Name Is Derived From The Greek Words Vo-pop, Nitre, And Yesace, I Produce. It Was Formerly Called Azote, Or Arctic Gas, From A Privative, And Ca,6, Life, Indicating Its Inability To Support Respiration. It Was First Discovered ...
Niza3i
Niza3i, The Title Of The Sovereign Of Hyderabad, Derived From Nirainail-31ulk, Who, Alter The Death Of Anrungzebe, Obtained Pos• Season Of The Mohammedan Conquests In The Deccan, His Name Being Assumed As A Title By Ids Successors In The Sovereignty. After Reigning 31 Years, Niram-ul 31nik Died At A Very ...
No Scene Painti
Scene-painti,no. With Respect To The Stage Of The Ancient Theatres Verylittle Is Known, And Even Is Estroliegly Ud,istluct, Being Founded Not Upon Description, But Merely On Incidental Allusions. But Granting That They Employed Some Kind Of Temporary Stage &coral,* Suited To The Subject Of The Piece, The Presumption Is That ...
Nobility
Nobility. The Slightest Attention To The Nature And The Actual Experience Of Man Must Convince Every One That Society Has A Tendency To Inequality In The Condition Of The Persona Composing It. Take Half A Dozen Youths, And Place Them In A Society Apart From All Other Per Sons Of ...
Nodal Points And Lines
Nodal Points And Lines. Nodal Points Are Those Points In The Length Of A String Extended Between Two Fixed Objects, Or In A Column Of Air Confined At One Or At Each Extremity, Which, When The String Or Column Is Put In A State Of Vibration, Are Found To Remain ...
Nolle
Nolle I'itosequi Is A Phrase Used In Proceedings At Law To Denote The Withdrawal Of The Plaintiff From The Further Prosecution Of His Suit, And Is Derived From The Words Used In The Formal Entry Of Such Withdrawal On The Record, In Which The Party "acknowledges That He Will Not ...
Nominalists
Nominalists, A Sect Of The Scholastic Philosophers, So Named On Account Of The Particular Tenet By Which They Were Distinguished, And In Opposition To The Realists, Another Scholastic Sect. In Order To Understand The Principal Point Of Difference Between These Parties, Which Gave Rise To Long-continued And Acrimonious Disputation, It ...
Nonconformity
Nonconformity Is The Term Employed To Designate Protestant Dissent From The Church Of England. It Was In The Reign Of Edward Vi. That The English Reformed Church First Received A Definite Constitution. During The Time Of Henry Viii. It Remained In A Great Measure Unsettled, And Was Subject To Continual ...
Nonsu1t
Nonsu1t. Ifs Plaintiff, Having Commenced A Civil Action, Is Guilty Of Any Neglect Or Default In Prosecuting Such Action According To The Practice Of The Court In Which It Is Brought, Be Is Adjudged Sot Mfalloiri Or Pursue His Remedy, And A Judgment Of Nun Prosequitur, Or Tioesuit, Is Entered, ...
Norman Architecture
Norman Architecture. In The Article Ootn Lc Anemia:mem That Form Of Round-arched Gothic Known As Norman Or Angle Norman Is Spoken Of As One Of The Local Ruodillcations Of That Generic Style Which, Apringing From The Debase! Roman Architecture, Has Received The Name Of Romanesque. Under The Heading Romanesque Architecture, ...