The older procesF, of making cut nails is, in general, as follows: The ore, whether hematite or magnetic, is smelted in a blast: furnace. run into pigs, puddle'', squeezed. and, if need he, hammered. rolled in the puddling-ball train, and cut to lengths. These are then fagoted—that piled so as to break joints—reheated to a white heat, drawn, passed through the nail-plate train, and the sheets, of the required width and thick ness, allowed to cool. It is next cut across its length (the width of the sheet being usually about a foot) into strips which are a little wider than the length of the required nail. These plates, heated by being set on edge on hot coals, are seized in a clamp and fed to the machine. end first. The pieces cut out are alternate, and slightly tapering, of course, with the fibre, and are squeezed and headed up by the machine before going into the trough.
In 1897 the wire nails produced in the United States amounted to 8,997,245 kegs of 100 paunch each. The output of cut nails for the same was 2.106,799 kegs. American wire nails an largely exported to Europe and to other parts 01 the world. In ISOS the' total number of cut-nail and cut-spike works in the United States was 55; the total number of wire-nail works was 79.
The accompanying table shows the export of nails from the United States for the past decade.
(injarati chuth. Distinctive marks of are the occasional aspiration of media: consonants (e.g. aghi, 'before,' Hindi uoe l'rakrit Skt. agre), softening of initial surds (e.g. Naipali garcon 'to make,' Hind; karna, Skt. 'NO, and the use of an agential ease as the active subject of a passive voice (a curious phenomenon widespread in the modern Indo-Iranian languages), in -le corresponding to the Hindi -ne (e.g. Naipali dune, '[by the) milk,' Hindi dudhne). The language has a num ber, possibly one-fifth, of loan-words from its Tibeto-Burman neighbors, but has maintained Consult: Swank, History and Manufacture of Iron in All Ages (Philadelphia, 1592); Smith, Treatise on. Mire, Its Manufacture and Uses (London and New York, 1891).
NAIN, (Gk. Nate). A town in Galilee, mentioned in Luke vii. 11-17 as the scene of Jesus' miracle of raising a widow's son from death. The site is now occupied by a miserable mud village (modern name Xa'in), but ruins near by show that once a city of sane size existed on the spot. The situation on the slopes of 'Little Herman.' about six miles southeast of Nazareth, is beautiful, commanding a view of the plain of Esdraelon, Mount Carmel to the southwest, Mount Hermon to the northeast, and of the varied landscape of Central Galilee.