natural and univerfal; but incommenfurate each to another, and difficult to be reconciled. Holder. * NOCTIFEROUS. adj. [nox and fero.] Bring ing night. Dia.

(1.) NOCTILUCA, a fpecies of phofphorus, fo called because it fhines in the dark without any light being thrown upon it; fuch is the phosphorus made of urine. See PHOSPHORUS.

(1.) NOCTILUCA, in pagan worship, a furname of DIANA. A temple was erected at Rome on Mount Palatine, to Diana Noctiluca, Varro de L. L. iv. Hor. iv. od. 6.

(3, 4. NOCTILUCA, in zoology. See LAMPYRIS, and NEREIS, N° 5.

* NOCTIVAGANŤ. adj. [noctivagus.] Wandering in the night. Dia.

* NOCTUARY. n. f. {from nox, nodis, Latin.] An account of what paffes by night.-I have got a parcel of vifions and other mifcellanies in my noctuary, which I shall send to enrich your paper. Addifon.

NOCTURLABIUM. See NOCTURNAL,

3.

NOCTURN. n. f. [nocturne, Fr. naturnus, Latin.] An office of devotion performed in the night. The reliques being conveniently placed before the church door, the vigils are to be cele brated the night before them, and the nodurn and the mattins for the honour of the faints whofe the reliques are. Stilling fleet.

(1.) * NOCTURNAL. adj. [no&urnus, Latin.] Nightly.

From gilded roofs depending lamps, difplay Nocturnal beams, that emulate the day. Dryd. -I beg leave to make you a prefent of a dream, which may serve to lull your readers till fuch time as you yourself fhall gratify the public with any of your nocturnal difcoveries. Addifon.

(2.) NOCTURNAL. 7. S. An inftrument by which obfervations are made in the night.-That projection of the ftars which includes all the ftars in our horizon, and therefore reaches to the thirtyeight degree and a half of fouthern latitude, though its centre is the north pole, gives us a better view of the heavenly bodies as they appear every night to us; and it may serve for a nocturnal, and shew the true hour of the night. Watts.

(3.) The NOCTURNAL, or NOCTURLABIUM, (2.) is chiefly used at fea, to take the altitude or depreffion of fome ftars about the pole, in order to find the latitude and hour of the night. Some nocturnals are hemifpheres, or planifpheres, on the plane of the equinoctial. Thofe commonly ufed among feamen are two; the one adapted to the polar ftar, and the firft of the guards of the Little Bear; the other to the pole ftar, and the pointers of the Great Bear. This inftrument confifts of two circular plates, applied to each other. The greater, which has a handle to hold the inftrument, is about 24 inches diameter, and is divided into 12 parts, agreeing to the 12 months; and each month divided into every 5th day; fo as that the middle of the handle correfponds to that day of the year wherein the ftar here regarded has the fame right afcenfion with the fun. If the inftrument be fitted for two ftars, the handle is made moveable. The upper left circle is di-. rided into 24 equal parts for the 24 hours of the VOL. XVI. PART 1.

day, and each hour fubdivided into quarters. Thefe 24 hours are noted by 24 teeth to be told in the night. Thofe at the hour 12 are distinguifhed by their length. In the centre of the two circular plates is adjusted a long index, moveable upon the upper plate; and the three pieces, viz. the two circles and index, are joined by a rivet which is pierced through the centre with a hole, through which the ftar is to be obferved. (See Pl. CCXLVI.) To use the nocturnal, turn the upper plate till the long tooth marked 12 be against the day of the month on the under plate; then bringing the inftrument near the eye, fuf pend it by the handle with the plane nearly parallel to the equinoctial, and viewing the pole star through the whole of the centre, turn the index about, till, by the edge coming from the centre, you fee the bright ftar or guard of the Little Bear, (if the inftrument be fitted to that star); then that tooth of the upper circle, under the edge of the index, is at the hour of the night on the edge of the hour circle: which may be known without a light, by counting the teeth from the tongeft, which is for the hour 12.

(4.) NOCTURNAL ARCH, the arch of a circle, defcribed by the fun, or a star in the night.

(1.) NOD, or the land of NoD, the country to which Cain withdrew after his fratricide. (Gen. iv. 16.) The Septuagint, as well as Jofephus, read Naid inftead of Nod, and have taken it for the name of a place. It is not known what country this was, unless it was NYSE or NYSEA, towards Hyrcania. St Jerome and the Chaldee interpre ters have taken the word Nod in the fenfe of an apellative, for vagabond or fugitive; "He dwelt a fugitive in the land." But the Hebrew reads, "He dwelt in the land of Nod." Gen. iv. 16.

(2.) * NOD. n. f. [from the verb.] 1. A quick declination of the head.-Children being to be reftrained by the parents only in vicious things a look or nod only ought to correct them when they do amifs. Locke on Education.

A mighty king I am, an earthly god; Nations obey my word, and wait my nod. Prior. 2. A quick declination.

Like a drunken failor on a maft,

Ready with every :od to tumble down. Rich. III. 3. The motion of the head in drowfinefs.-Every drowfy nod fhakes their doctrine who teach, that the foul is always thinking. Locke. 4. A flight obeifance.-Will he give you the nod? Troil. and Creff-Since the wifdom of their choice is ratuer to have my cap than my heart, I will practise the infinuating nod, and be off to them moft counterfeitly. Shak. Coriolanus.

*To NOD. v. n. [Of uncertain derivation: vruw, Gr. nuto, Lat. amneidio, Welth.] 1. To decline the head with a quick motion.

2.

Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts Your enemies with nodding of their plumes, Fan you in defpair. Shak Coriolanus.

Cleopatra hath nodded him to her.

On the faith of Jove rely,

Shak.

When nodding to thy fuit he bows the sky. Dryd. To pay a flight bow.

Caffius must bend his body,

If Cæfar carelessly but nod on him.
N

Shak.

3. To

He climbs the mountain rocks, Fir'd by the nodding verdure of its brow. Thomf. 4. To be drowfy.-Your two predeceffors were famous for their dreams and vifions, and, contrary to all other authors, never pleased their readers more than when they were nodding. Addifon.

NODAB, a country bordering upon Iturea and Idumæa, but now unknown. We read in the Chronicles, that the tribe of Reuben, affifted by thofe of Gad and Manaffeh, had a war against the Hagarites, the Jeturites, and the people of Nephith and of Nodab, in which the Ifraelites had the advantage. 1 Chr. v. 19. But the time and the other particulars of this war are unknown. NODAR, or NOUDAR, a town of Portugal, in Alentejo, 21 miles SE. of Mourao, and 24 E. of Moura.

NODATED HYPERBOLA, a name given by Sir Ifaac Newton to a kind of hyperbola, which, by turning round, decuffates or croffes itself. *NODATION. n. f. [from nodo.] The ftate of being knotted, or act of making knots.

* NODDER. n. s. [from nod.] One who makes nods. A fet of nodders, winkers, and whisperers, whose business is to ftrangle all other offspring of wit in their birth. Pope.

*NODDLE. n. f. [thnol, Saxon.] A head, in contempt.

Her care fhall be

To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd ftool. Shak. Let our wines without mixture, or ftain, be , all fine,

Or call up the mafter and break his dull noddle. Ben Jonfon.

My head's not made of brafs, As friar Bacon's noddle was. Hudibras. -He would not have it faid before the people, that images are to be worshipped with Latria, but rather the contrary, because the diftinctions neceffary to defend it are too fubtile for their nod dles. Stilling fleet.-Come, mafter, I have a project in my noddle, that fhall bring my miftrefs to you back again, with as good will as ever fhe went from you. L'Efrange

Impartial Proferpine beholds the truth; And laughing at fo fond and vain a task, Will ftrip thy boary noddle of its mafk. Addif. Thou that art ever half the city's grace, And add'ft to folemn noddles folemn pace.

Fenton. (1.) * NODDY. n. f. [from naudin, French.] A fimpleton; an idiot.-The whole race of bawling, fluttering noddies, by what title foever dignified, are akin to the ais in this fable. L'Eftrange.

(2.) NODDY, in ornithology. See STERNA. ` (1.) * NODE. n. f. [nodas Latin.] 1. A knot; a knob. 2. A fwelling on the bone.-If nodes be the caufe of the pain, foment with fpirit of wine wherein opium and faftron have been diffolved. Wifeman. 3. Interfection.-All thefe variations are finished in nineteen years, nearly agreeing with the courfe of the nodes; i. e. the points in the ecliptic where the moon croffeth that circle as the

paffeth to her northern or fouthern latitude; which nodes are called the head and tail of the dragon. Holder.

(2.) A NODE, (§ 1. def. 2.) is a tumour on the bones, ufually proceeding from fome venereal caufe; being much the fame with what is called

EXOSTOSIS.

(3.) NODE, or NODUS, in dialling, a certain point or pole in the gnomon of a dial, by the fhadow or light whereof either the hour of the day in dials without furniture, or the parallels of the fun's declination, and his place in the ecliptic, &c. in dials with furniture, are shown. See DIALLING. (4.) NODES, in aftronomy, (§ 1, def. 3.) are the two points where the orbit of a planet interfects the ecliptic. Such are the two points C and D; (Pl. 246, N° 1.) of which the node C, where the planet afcends northward above the plane of the ecliptic, is called the afcending node, or the dragon's head, and is marked thus . The other node D, where the planet defcends to the south, is called the defcending node, or the dragon's tail, marked thus . The line CD, wherein the two circles CEDF and CGDH interfect, is called the line of nodes. It appears from obfervation, that the line of the nodes of all the planets conftantly changes its place, and shifts its fituation from E. to W. contrary to the order of the figns; and that the line of the moon's nodes, by a retrograde motion, finishes its circulation in the compafs of 19 years; after which time, either of the nodes having receded from any one point of the ecliptic, returns to the fame again; and when the moon is in the node, fhe is alfo feen in the ecliptic. If the line of nodes were immoveable, that is, if it had no other motion than that whereby it is carried round the fun, it would always look to the fame point of the ecliptic, or would keep parallel to itself, as the axis of the earth does. From what hath been faid, it is evident, that the moon can never be observed precifely in the ecliptic, but twice in every period; that is, when the enters the nodes. When the is at her greatest distance from the nodes, viz. in the points E, F, she is said to be in her limits. The moon must be in or near one of the nodes, when there is an eclipse of the fun or moon. To make this ftill clearer, let the plane of N° 2. represent that of the ecliptic, S the fun, T the centre of the earth, L the moon in her orbit D Ndn. Nn is the line of the nodes paffing between the quadrature Q and the moon's place L, in her last quarter. Let now LP, or any part LS, reprefent the excess of the fun's action at T; and this being refolved into the force LR, perpendicular to the plane of the moon's orbit, and PR parallel to it, it is the former only that has any effect to alter the pofition of the orbit, and in this it is wholly exerted. Its effect is twofold: 1. It diminishes its inclination by a motion which we may conceive as performed round the diameter D d to which LT is perpendicular. 2. Being compounded with the moon's tangential motion at L, it gives an intermediate direction Lt, through which and the centre a plane being drawn, muft meet the ecliptic nearer the conjunction C than before.

NODESDALE, a river of Scotland, in Ayrshire, which runs into the Frith of Clyde at Largs.

NODHA

NODHA, a town of Perfia, in Mecran. NODHEA, a town of Perfia, in Kirman. (1.) NODINGEN, an island of Sweden, in the North Sea, near the W. coaft. Lon. 11. 50. E. Lat. 57. 16. N.

(2.) NODINGEN, a town of Sweden, in W. Gothland.

* NODOSITY. n. f. [from nodofus, Lat.] Com plication; knot.-These the midwife cutteth off, contriving them into a knot clofe unto the body of the infant; from whence enfueth that tortuofity, or complicated nodofity we call the navel. Brown.

* NODOUS. adj. [nodofus, Lat.] Knotty; full of knots. This is seldom affected with the gout, and when that becometh nodous, men continue not long after. Brown.

* NODULE. n. f. [nodulus, Lat.] A fmall lump -Those minerals in the ftrata, are either found in grains, or else they are amaffed into balls, lumps, or nodules: which nodules are either of an irregular figure, or of a figure fomewhat more regular. Woodward.

NODUS. See NODE, § 3.

NODZ, a town of France, in the dep. of the Doubs, 74 miles E. of Ornans. (1.) NOE. See NOAH.

(2.) NoE, a town of France, in the dep. of Upper Garonne, on the Garonne ; 7 miles S. of Muret, and 17 S. of Toulouse.

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(1.) NOEL, Alexander, an indefatigable writer of the 17th century, born at Roan in Normandy, 1639. After finishing his ftudies at Roan, he entered into the order of Dominican friars, and was profeffed there in 1655. Soon after he went to Paris, to ftudy philofophy and divinity in the great convent, where he diftinguished himself so, that he was appointed to teach philosophy there, which he did for 12 years. Mr Colbert fhowed him many marks of his efteem; and being determined to omit nothing to perfect the education of his fon, afterwards Abp. of Roan, he formed an affembly of the moft learned perfons, whofe conferences upon ecclefiaftical hiftory might be of advantage to him. Noel was invited to this affembly, where he exerted himself with so much genius and ability, that he gained the particular friendship of young Colbert, who showed him the utmost regard as long as he lived. These conferences gave rife to his defign of writing an ecclefiaftical hiftory; for, being defired to reduce what was material in these conferences to writing, he did it with so much accuracy, that the learned men who compofed this affembly, advifed him to undertake a complete body of church hiftory. This he executed with great affiduity, collecting and digefting the materials himself, and writing even the tables with his own hand. He at laft completed his work in 1686. Towards the latter part of his life, he was afflicted with the lofs of his fight; which he bore with great refignation. He died in 1724, aged 80. (2, 3.) NOEL, 2 iflands in the Indian Ocean, near the coaft of Siam. Lon. 96° 30', to 96° 48′ E. Lat. 10° 33', to 10° 47′ N.

(1.) NOEOMAGUS LEXUVIORUM, a town of Gaul, thought to be the Civitas Lexoviorum of the lower age; (Ptolemy,) now callen LISIEUX.

(2.) NOEOMAGUS TRICASTINORUM, a town of Gallia Narbonenfis; thought to be ST POL de Trois Chateaux, fix miles W. of Nyons.

NOERINGBERG, a town of Brandenburg, 16 miles N. of Arenfwald.

NOETIANS, in church history, Chriftian heretics in the 3d century, followers of NOETIUS; whofe herefy confifted in affirming that there was but one perfon in the Godhead; and that the Word and the Holy Spirit were but external denominations given to God in confequence of dif ferent operations; that, as Creator, he is called Father; as Incarnate, Son; and as descending on the apoftles, Holy Ghost.

NOETIUS, a philofopher of Ephefus, the founder of the fect of NOETIANS. He pretended that he was another Mofes fent by God, and that his brother was another Aaron.

NOEWE, a town of Tenneffee, 21 miles S. of Knoxville.

NOFUENTES, a town of Spain, in Old Caftile, 6 miles N. of Frias.

NOGALES, a town of Spain, in Eftremadura, 20 miles SSE. of Badajoz.

(1.) NOGARA, a town of France, and capital of a diftrict, in the dep. of Gers; 21. miles SW. of Condom, and 27 WNW. of Auch. Lon. 17, 37. E. of Ferro. Lat. 43. 46. N.

(2.) NOGARA, a town of Germany, in the Tirolefe; 9 miles NE. of Trent.

(3.) NOGARA, a town of Italy, in the dep. of the Mincio, and district, late duchy, of Verona ; 13 miles W. of Legnano.

NOGARCOT, a town of Indostan, in the prov. of Napaul, with a famous pagoda; 50 miles NE. of Catmandu, and 75 SW. of Tankia,

NOGARUOLA, a town of Italy in the dep. of the Mincio diftrict, and ci-devant duchy of Verona: 19 miles SSE. of Verona.

NOGELN, a town of Pruffia, in Samland. NOGENT, the name of 7 towns of France, diftinguished as follows:

1. NOGENT LE BERNHARD, in the dep. of the Sarte, 18 miles NNE. of Mans.

2. NOGENT LE ROTROU, in the dep. of Eure and Loire, and ci-devant prov. of Beauce, feated on the Huifne, 27 miles SW. of Chartres, and 35 NE. of Mans. Lon. o. 5o. E. Lat. 48. 20. N.

3, 4. NOGENT LE RO: 1. in the dep. of the Eure, and diftrict of Dreux, near the Eure; 12 miles N. of Chartres, and 12 SE. of Dreux: 2. in that of the Upper Marne, 9 miles SE. of Chaumont, and 10 N. of Langres. Probably the royal diftinctive epithet of Le Roi is now laid afide with regard to both these towns.

5. NOGENT SUR MARNE, in the dep. of Paris, or the Marne, 6 miles SE. of Paris.

6. NOGENT SUR SEINE, or as Mr Cruttwell has it EN SEINE, in the dep. of the Aube, on the Seine; 9 miles ESE. of Provins, and 28 NW. of Troyes. Lon. 3. 40. E. Lat. 48, 30. N.`

7. NOGENT SUR VERNISSON, in the dep. of Loiret, 9 miles S, of Montargis.

* NOGGEN. adj. Hard; rough; harfh.-He put on a hard, coarse, noggen fhirt of Pendrels. Efcape of King Charles.

*NOGGIN. n. f. [noffel, German.] A small No 2

mug.

mug.-Frog laughed in his fleeve, gave the fquire the other noggin of brandy, and clapped him on the back. Arbuthnot.

NOGUERA, the name of two rivers of Spain, in Catalonia, which are thus diftinguished:

I. NOGUERA PALERESA, running into the Segré, 4 miles N. of Balaguer :

2. NOGUERA RIBAGORÇANA, running into the Segré, 10 miles S. of Balaguer.

NOHAVEL, a town of Ireland, in Cork. NOHN, a town of France, in the dep. of the Mofelle; 17 miles NE. of Thionville.

NOHOTHA, a river of Thibet, which runs in to the Sanpoo, 21 miles WSW. of Tankia.

NOIA, 3 towns of Naples: 1. in Bari, 6 miles WSW. of Converfano: 2. in Bafilicata, 12 miles WSW. of Turfi: 3. in Otranto, 5 miles SE. of Nardo.

NOIANCE. n. f. [See ANNOISANCE.] Mif. chief; inconvenience.

*To NOIE. v. a. To annoy. An old word difufed.

Let fervant be ready with mattock in hand, To ftub out the bushes that noieth the land.

Tuffer. * NOIER 7. S. [from noie.] One who annoys An old word in difufe.

The north is a noier to grass of all fuits, The east a destroyer to herbs and all fruits.

Tuffer. NOIERA, a town of Naples in Principato Citra; 7 miles WNW. of Salerno.

NOILSBERG, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leitmeritz, 18 miles NW. of Leitmeritz.

*NOIOUS. adj. [noiofo, Italian.] Hurtful ; mifchievous; troublesome; inconvenient. Obsolete. -Being bred in a hot country, they found much hair on their faces to be noious unto them. Spenf.The falfe Dueffa, leaving noious night, Return'd to stately palace of dame Pride. Spenf. But neither darkness foul, nor filthy bands, Nor noious smell his purpose could with-hold. Spenfer. NOIR, CAPE, a cape of S. America, at the SW. extremity of Terra del Fuego. Lon. 73. 3. W. Lat. 54. 43. S.

NOIRE, a river of the United States in the North Western territory, which runs W. by S. and falls into Lake Michigan, 15 miles N. of St Jofeph.

NOIREAU, a river of France, running into the Orne, 4 miles NNE. of Clecy, in the dep. of Calvados.

NOIRETABLE, a town of France, in the dep. of Rhone and Loire, 18 miles SSW of Roanne. NOIRMOTIER See NOIRMOUTIER. NOIRMOUNT, a cape on the S. coaft of the Inle of Jersey, at the entrance of St Aubin's bay.

(1.) NOIRMOUTIER, an island of France, in the dep. of the Vendee, feparated from the coaft by a ftrait about a mile wide, 9 miles long, and from 1 to 3 broad, according to Mr Cruttwell

11;

but Dr Brookes and J. Walker make it 17 miles long and 8 broad. It is full of bogs, yet affords good pafture. Lon. from 15. 20 to 15. 30. E. of Ferro. Lat. 46. 53. to 47. 2. N.

(2.) NOIR MOUTIER, a town of France, with a harboar and bay, on the E. coaft of the above ifland, defended by a fort, called Fort St Pierre. This town and fort, though well calculated for defence, were furrendered, along with the whole ifland, by the French royalifts to the republicans, at difcretion, on the 2d Jan. 1794, with so cannons, 8000 ftand of arms, and 30,000lb. of gunpowder. During the fiege, though it was short, 800 royalists were killed. Lon. 2. 10. W. Lat. 47. o. N.

* NOISE. n. f. [noife, French.] 1. Any kind of found.- Noifes, as of waters falling down, founded about them, and fad vifions appeared unto them. Wif. xvii. 4.-Whether it were a whiftling found, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, these things made them fwoon. Wi xvii. 18.-Great motions in nature pass without found or noife. The heavens turn about in a moft rapid motion, without noise to us perceived. Bacon.

2. Outcry; clamour; boasting or importunate talk. What noife have we had about tranfplantation of difeafes, and transfufion of blood. Baker. 3. Occafion of talk.-Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague which has made fo much noife through all ages, and never caught the leaft infection. Addison. 4. A concert. Obsolete.

(1.) To NOISE. v. n. [from the noun.] To found loud.

Harm,

Those terrors which thou speak'ft of did me

none;

*

Milt.

Tho' noifing loud and threat'ning nigh, (2.) To NOISE. v. a. To spread by rumour or report.-All these fayings were noifed abroad throughout all the hill country. Luke i. 65fhall not need to relate the affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain, after the voice of our prince's being there had been quickly noised. Wotton.-They might buz and whisper it one to another; and tacitly withdrawing from the prefence of the apoftle, they then lift up their voices and noised it about the city. Bentley.

NOISEFUL adj. [noife and full.] Loud; clamorous.

That eunuch, guardian of rich Holland's trade,

Whofe noifeful valour does no foe invade, Dryd. NOISELESS. adj. [from noise.] Silent; without

found.