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kp-eb0716-025702-0206 | NORTON’S SOUND, on the north-west coast of America, was discovered in Captain Cook’s last voyage, and was so named in honour of Sir Fletcher Norton, afterwards Lord Grantley, a near relation of Mr, afterwards Dr King. It extends as far as north latitude 64. 55. There is no good station for ships, nor even a tolerable h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027401-0427 | NORWICH, a city of England, the capital of the county of Norfolk. No historical notices of the place are to be found during the period of the Roman government in this island. Its origin was during the Saxon heptarchy, when, in 446, a castle was first erected, on an elevation surrounded by water and marshes, which havin... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027701-0466 | NOSE, the organ of smell. See Anatomy. The uses of the nose are, exciting in us the sense of smelling, and serving in the great office of respiration, as well as in modelling the voice, receiving the abundant humours from the eyes, and adding to the beauty of the face. The nose was by the augurs particularly attended t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027702-0466 | NOSOLOGY is a Greek word signifying a discourse or treatise of diseases, otherwise called pathology. The importance of a comprehensive and accurate nosology has been long and generally allowed. Baglivi, Boerhaave, Gorter, Gaubius, and Sydenham, have expressed their desire for a work of this kind, the great object of wh... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027703-0466 | NOSTOCH, Shot Stars; tremella nostee (Lin. Spec. Plant. ; Dillenins, de Muscis, tab. 10, fig. 14; Flor. Danica, tab. 885, fig. 1); tremella intestinalis vel mesenterica (Lin. Spec. Plant.; Dillen, de Mus. tab. 10, fig. 16; Flσr. Panic. tab. 885, fig. 2). The substance in question is not unfrequent in England, and in ot... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027801-0479 | NOSTRADAMUS, Michael, an able physician and a celebrated astrologer, was descended of a noble Provençal family, and born on the 14th of December 1503, at St Remy, in the diocese of Avignon. By his grandfather he was initiated in the study of the mathematics, and he afterwards completed his courses of humanity and philo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027901-0492 | NOTAE, signs used in writing, which have the force of many letters. This contrivance for expedition is of great antiquity. It was known to the Greeks, and from them passed to the Romans. By whom the invention was brought to Rome has not been precisely ascertained; but the most general opinion is, that in matters of imp... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027902-0492 | NOTARII, persons employed by the Romans to take, by means of notae, trials and pleadings in their courts of judicature, or to write as amanuenses from the mouth of an author. These notarii were of servile condition. Un? der the reign of Justinian they were formed into a college or corporate body. Notarii were also appo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027903-0492 | NOTARY (Notarius) signifies a person who takes notes, or frames short draughts of contracts, obligations, charter-parties, or such other writings. At present we call him a notary public, because he publicly attests deeds or writings, in order to make them authentic. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027904-0492 | NOTATION, in Arithmetic and Algebra, the method of expressing numbers or quantities by signs or characters appropriated for that purpose. See Arithmetic and Algebra. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027905-0492 | NOTES, in music, characters which are used, in writing or printing, to mark the pitch and the duration of the sounds of any musical composition. These characters or signs of notation have varied much at different times. Many alterations of those now generally received have been proposed, but not adopted. Numerical and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-027906-0492 | NOTHUS signifies spurious or bastard ς and hence it is [7:16:280]figuratively applied by physicians to diseases which, though in respect of a similitude of symptoms they have the same denomination as some others, yet are of a different origin from them. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028001-0505 | NOTION, a word which in common language is considered as of the same import with idea. See Metaphysics. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028002-0505 | NOTITIA, in literary history, a book which gives an account of a particular country, city, or other place. Such are the Notitia Imperii Romani, the Notitia Romoe Antiquae, and other similar works. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028003-0505 | NOTO, a city of the island of Sicily, in the kingdom of Naples, the capital of the province of the same name, 149 miles from Palermo. It stands on a rocky hill, in a fine but unhealthy situation. It has elegant streets, with noble churches and convents, and forms one of the most respectable places on the island; whilst... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028004-0505 | NOTTINGHAM, a large market-town of England, the capital of the county of the same name, in the centre of England. It is a place of great antiquity, deriving its name from the Saxon word Snottingaham, which is descriptive of its position as a retreat in rocks, since there were formerly many, and are still a few, caverns... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028201-0531 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, an inland county of England, bounded on the north by Yorkshire and a part of Lincolnshire, on the east by Lincolnshire, on the south by Leicestershire, and on the west by Derbyshire. It is of an oval figure, with its narrowest end towards the north. Its greatest length is about fifty miles, and its gre... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028301-0544 | NOVAIA, a small town of Tobolsk, in Asiatic Russia, situated on the Irtysch, one hundred miles east-south-east of Tobolsk. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028302-0544 | NOVARA, a province of the duchy of Piedmont, in the continental dominions of Sardinia. It extends over 610 square miles, and comprehends one citv, 117 market-towns and villages, and about 100,000 inhabitants. It is a level district, watered by the rivers Ticino, Sesia, and Agnona, the streams of which are spread by num... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 45 26' 58" N 8 32' 25" E | NOVARA |
kp-eb0716-028401-0557 | NOVA SCOTIA, a British province of North America, situated between the parallels of 43. 25. and 46. 0. north latitude, and the meridians 61. 0. and 66.30. of west longitude, and connected with the south-east part of the continent by an isthmus of only eight miles in width. It is bounded on the north by the Strait of No... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028901-0622 | NOVATIAN, a priest of Rome, but originally a pagan philosopher. He was baptized in bed when dangerously ill; having recovered, he was afterwards ordained priest through the favour of his bishop, although the clergy and the people were far from being disposed to grant it. He does not appear to have had the good of the c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028902-0622 | NOVATIANS, Novatiani, a sect of ancient heretics, who arose towards the close of the third century, and were so called from Novatian, a priest of Rome. They were also denominated Cathari or Puritans. Novatian first separated from the communion of Pope Cornelius, on pretence of his being too easy in admitting to repenta... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-028903-0622 | NOVATION, or Innovation, in the Civil Law, de [7:16:290]notes the change of one kind of obligation for another; as when a promise is accepted instead of a written obligation. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029001-0635 | NOVATUS, a priest of Carthage in the third century, who, to avoid being punished for a crime, joined with the deacon named Felicissimus against St Cyprian. In 251 he went to Rome, and there found Novatian, who had acquired great reputation’ by his eloquence, but who murmured at his not being raised to the see of Rome i... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029002-0635 | NOVEL, a fictitious narrative in prose, which professes to exhibit the natural workings of the human heart, the happiness and misery of private life, and, above all, the nature of the affection called love, and the consequences of indulging it in certain circumstances. A critic, by no means too indulgent to works of fa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029101-0648 | NOVELTY, or Newness. Of all the circumstances which raise emotions, not excepting beauty, nor even greatness, says Lord Kames, novelty has the most powerful influence. A new object produces instantaneously an emotion termed wonder, which totally occupies the mind, and for a time excludes all other objects. Conversation... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029102-0648 | NOVEMVIRI, nine magistrates of Athens, whose government lasted but for one year. The first of them was called archon, or prince; the second basileu,s, or king; the third polemarchus, or general of the army; the other six were called thesmothetae, or lawgivers. They took an oath to observe the laws, and, in case of fail... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029103-0648 | NOVI, a city of the duchy of Genoa, in Italy, now belonging to Sardinia. It is situated on thtí great road to Piedmont, has a strong castle, several churches, and 5572 inhabitants, who prepare some of the best silk in the district, in which they have a brisk trade, as well as in colonial productions. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029104-0648 | NOVICE, a person not yet skilled or experienced in an art or profession. In the ancient Roman militia, novicii or novitii were the young raw soldiers, distinguished by this appellation from the veterans. In the ancient orders of knighthood, there were novices or clerks in arms, who went through a kind of apprenticeship... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029105-0648 | NOVICIATE, a year of probation appointed for the trial of religious, whether or not they have a vocation, and the necessary qualities for living up to the rule, the observance of which they are to bind themselves to by vow. The noviciate lasts a year at least, in some houses more. It is esteemed the bed of civil death ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029106-0648 | NOVOGOROD. See Nowogorod. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029107-0648 | NOWADAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bahar, fifty-four miles south-south-east from Patna. Near it there is a pass through the mountains. Long. 85. 40. E. Lat. 24. 54. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 24 54' N 85 40' E | NOWADAH |
kp-eb0716-029108-0648 | NOWAGUR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, situated on the north-west bank of the Mahanuddy River. It belongs to the Nagpore Mahrattas, and is thirty miles south-south-east from Ruttunpoor. Long. 82. 55. E. Lat. 21.55. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 55' N 82 55' E | NOWAGUR |
kp-eb0716-029109-0648 | NOWED, in Heraldry, signifies knotted, from the Latin nodatιιs ; being applied to the tails of such creatures as are very long, and sometimes represented in coat-armour as tied up in a knot. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029110-0648 | NOWOGOROD, a province of Great Russia, which takes its name from the city which is now its capital, but was formerly that of the whole of Russia. The governments of Olonez, Pfkow, Twer, and a part of that of St Petersburg, were included in it, till the recent divisions of the empire were established. It now extends bet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 50' N 32 48' E | NOWOGOROD |
kp-eb0716-029201-0661 | NOWOSILL, a circle of the Russian province of Tula, extending from north latitude 52. 53. to 53. 36. and from east longitude 37. 10. to 37. 25. and containing 94,600 inhabitants. The capital is a town of the same name, situated on the river Narutsha, 736 miles from St Petersburg, and containing 200 houses, with 1560 in... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 52 55' N 36 55' E | NOWOSILL |
kp-eb0716-029202-0661 | NOWPOORAH, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta territories of the province of Khandesh, forty-six miles east from Surat. Long. 73. 45. E. Lat. 21. 6. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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... | 21 6' N 73 45' E | NOWPOORAH |
kp-eb0716-029203-0661 | NOX, in fabulous history, one of the most ancient deities amongst the heathens. She was daughter of Chaos, and from her union with her brother Erebus she gave birth to the Day and the Light. She was also the mother of the Parcae, Hesperides, Dreams; of Discord, Death, Momus, Fraud, &c. Nox is called by some of the poet... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029204-0661 | NUAYHAS, or Ague Tree, a name given by the Indians to a sort of bamboo cane, the leaves of which falling into the water, arc said to impregnate it with such virtue that the bathing in it afterwards cures the ague. To dissolve coagulated blood, they use also a decoction of the leaves, giving it internally, and at the sa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029205-0661 | NUBA, a race of black Pagans, in the neighbourhood of Sennaar, of whom we know nothing, except what has been stated by Bruce. That traveller passed a day or two amongst them in his way from Abyssinia; and he tells us that they are all soldiers of the melek or king of Sennaar, cantoned in villages, which surround the ca... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029206-0661 | NUBIA, an extensive country of Africa, bounded on the north by Egypt, on the south by Abyssinia, on the east by the Red Sea, and on the west by the great Libyan desert. It is difficult to fix the precise limits and extent of this vast region, which will be variously estimated, according as we confine Nubia to the mere ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029801-0739 | NUBIAN Desert, a vast tract of barren rocks and burning sands, extending from Syene in Upper Egypt, to Geon, the capital of Berber in Nubia. As Syene is in latitude 24. 0. 45. north, and Geon in latitude 17. 57.22., the length of this desert from north to south is 6. 3. 23., or upwards of 420 English miles. Its breadth... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029802-0739 | NUCKERGAU Γ, a town of Northern Hindustan, in the province of Serinagur. Long. 78. 5. E. Lat. 30.3. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029803-0739 | NUCLEUS, in general, denotes the kernel of a nut, or any seed enclosed within a husk. The term nucleus is also used for the body of a comet, otherwise called its head. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029804-0739 | NUCTA, a dew, which, falling in Egypt about St John’s day, is, by the superstitious natives of the country, considered as miraculous, and the peculiar gift of that saint. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029805-0739 | NUDDEA, a town of Bengal, and capital of a district of the same name. It is situated on an island at the confluence of the Jelinghy and Cossimbazar Rivers with the Hooghly, sixty miles north from Calcutta. It was the capital of a Hindu principality anterior to the Mogul conquest of Hindustan, and was taken and entirely... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029806-0739 | NUESTRA Senhora de Luz, an island in the Pacific [7:16:299]Ocean, discovered by Quiros in 1506. It appears to be the same island which was called Pic de l’Etoile by Bougainville. Lat. 14. 30. S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029901-0752 | NULDINGAH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bengal, seventy-four miles north east by north from Culcutta. Long. 89. 7. E. Lat. 23. 25. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029902-0752 | NUJENGODE, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Mysore, which stands on the south bank of the Cubany River, and is inhabited by Brahmins, who derive their support from a celebrated pagoda or temple, to which immense numbers of Hindus resort. Long. 76. 50. E. Lat. 12. l N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029903-0752 | NUMA Pompilius, the fourth son of Pompilius Pompo, an illustrious Sabine. Having married Tatia, the daughter of King Tatius, he remained with her in his native country, preferring the tranquillity of a private life to the splendour of a court. Upon the death of his wife, with whom he had lived thirteen years, he gave h... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029904-0752 | NUMANTIA, a very noble city, the ornament of the Hither Spain, and celebrated for the long war of twenty years which it maintained against the Romans. The baseness and injustice of the Romans during this war were truly disgraceful to them, and altogether unworthy of a great and powerful people. The inhabitants obtained... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-029905-0752 | NUMBER, an assemblage of several units, or things of the same kind. Number is either abstract or applicate; abstract, when referred to things in general, without attending to their particular properties; and applicate, when considered as the number of a particular sort of things, as yards, trees, or the like. When part... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-030101-0778 | NUMERAL Letters are those letters of the alphabet which are generally 7 used for figures, as 1, one; V, five; X, ten; L, fifty; C, a hundred; D, five hundred; M, a thousand; and so on. It is not agreed how the Roman numerals originally received their value. It has been supposed, as we have observed in the article Numbe... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-030102-0778 | NUMERATION, or Notation, in Arithmetic, the art of expressing in characters any number proposed in words, or of expressing in words any number proposed in characters. See Arithmetic.
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kp-eb0716-030201-0791 | NUMERICAL, Numerous, or Numeral, something relating to numbers; thus Numerical Algebra is that which makes use of numbers instead of letters of the alphabet. Numerical difference is also that by which one man is distinguished from another. Hence a thing is said to be numerically the same, when it is so in the strictest... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-030202-0791 | NUMIDIA, an ancient kingdom of Africa, bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea; on the south by Gaetulia, or part of Libya Interior; on the west by the Mulucha, a river which separated it from Mauritania; and on the east by the Tusea, another river which formed its conterminous boundary with Africa Propria.
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kp-eb0716-030901-0882 | NUMISMATOGRAPHIA, a term applied to the description and knowledge of ancient coins and medals, whether of gold, silver, or brass. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-030902-0882 | NUN, the son of Elishamah, and father of Joshua, of the tribe of Ephraim. The Greeks gave him the name of Nane instead of Nun. This person is only known in sacred history by having been the father of Joshua.
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kp-eb0716-031001-0895 | NUNCIO, or Nuntio, an ambassador from the pope to some Catholic prince or state, or a person who attends on behalf of the pope at a congress, or an assembly of several ambassadors. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031002-0895 | NUNCUPATIVE, in the schools, means something that is only nominal, or has no existence but in name.
Nuncupative Will or Testament, a will made verbally, and not put in writing. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031003-0895 | NUNDABAR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Khandesh, belonging to the Mahrattas, seventy-six miles east from Surat. Long. 74. 15. E. Lat. 21. 17. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031004-0895 | NUNDAPORAM, a town of Hindustan, in the Northern Circars, and district of Cicacole, eighty-two miles west from Cicacole. Long. 82. 40. E. Lat. 18. 23. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031005-0895 | NUNDINA, a goddess amongst the ancient heathens, supposed to have had the care of the purification of infants. Because male infants were purified nine days after their birth, her name is derived from nonus, or the ninth; although female infants were also purified on the eighth day, which purification was by the Romans ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031006-0895 | NUNDINAL, Nundinalis, a name which the Romans gave to the first eight letters of the alphabet, which were used in their calendar. This series of letters, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, is placed and repeated successively from the first to the last day of the year; and one of these always expressed the market-days or the assem... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031007-0895 | NUNDYDROOG, a celebrated and strong hill fortress of Hindustan, in the province of Mysore. The mountain on which it is built is 1700 feet high, and it is inaccessible on three sides. This fortress, always considered as impregnable, was stormed by the British in 1791, after a siege of three weeks. The neighbouring count... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031008-0895 | NUNEATON, a town of the county of Warwick, in the hundred of Hemlingford, ninety-nine miles from London, and eight from Coventry. It stands on the river Anker, and had formerly a nunnery, to which it owes its name. It partakes of the trade of Coventry, like that place making many ribbons, and, besides, some woollen goo... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031009-0895 | NUNIA, a village of Irak Arabi, about three quarters of a mile from the Tigris, opposite to Mosul. It is supposed to be the site of the ancient Nineveh. The history of this metropolis is lost in succeeding ages, and it appears to have fallen into decay after the building of Babylon; indeed in the reign of Hadrian it wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031010-0895 | NUPTIAL Rites, the ceremonies attending the solemnization of marriage, which are different in different ages and countries. We cannot omit here a custom which was practised by the Romans on these occasions. Immediately after the principal ceremonies were ended, the new married man threw nuts about the room for the boys... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031011-0895 | NUREMBURG, or Nurnberg, a city of Bavaria, in the circle of the Rezat, and the bailiwick of the same name, of which it is the capital. It is situated on the river Pegnitz, which divides it into two parts. The walls are now kept in a state which renders them indefensible. It is an extensive but thinly peopled city, havi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031012-0895 | NURPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Lahore, and capital of a district of the same name. It is situated on the top of a hill, which is ascended by stone steps, and has all the appearance of opulence and industry. It is the residence of a Sikh chief, whose revenue amounts to L.50,000 a year. The district is ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031013-0895 | NURR AH, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gundwana, tributary to the Nagpoor rajah, and possessed by native Goand chiefs. It is seventy-eight miles south by east from Ruttunpoor. Long. 82. 45. E. Lat. 21. 2. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031014-0895 | NURSERY, in Gardening, is a piece of land set apart for raising and propagating all sorts of trees and plants to supply the garden and other plantations. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031015-0895 | NURSING of Children. The following observations and directions were published in the Annual Register (vol. vi. p. 130), as the results of long experience. The [7:16:311]child should be laid, the first month, upon a thin mattress, rather longer than itself, which the nurse should keep upon her lap, that the child may al... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031101-0908 | NUSANCE, or Nuisance, in Law, a thing done to the annoyance of another. Nuisances are either public or pri vate. A public nuisance is an offence against the public in general, either by doing what tends to the annoyance of all the king’s subjects, or by neglecting to do what the common good requires; in which case, all... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031102-0908 | NUSSERABAD, a town of Hindustan, in the Mahratta dominions, and province of Berar, forty-two miles southwest from Burhampoor. Long. 75. 51. E. Lat. 20. 56. N. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031103-0908 | NUSSERITABAD, or Sackur, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Bejapore, belonging to the nizam. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031104-0908 | NUSSERPOOR, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Sinde, and the capital of a district of the same name, situated near the banks of the Indus. Long. 69. 10. E. Lat. 25. 28. N. The district is situated principally between the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh degrees of north latitude, and is intersected by the river In... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031105-0908 | NUT, among botanists, denotes a pericarpium of an extraordinary hardness, enclosing a kernel or seed. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031106-0908 | NUTATION, in Astronomy, a kind of tremulous motion of the axis of the earth, by which, in each annual revolution, it is twice inclined to the ecliptic, and as often returns to its former position. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031107-0908 | NUTHUIRS, a village of Persia, in the province of Irak, situated on a small plain surrounded with mountains, on the road from Ispahan to Sultania, and sixty-three miles north from Ispahan. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031108-0908 | NUTMEG, the fruit of a tree, and a well-known spice. See Myristica. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031109-0908 | NUTRITION, in the animal economy, is the repairing the continual loss which the different parts of the body undergo. The motion of the parts of the body, the friction of these parts against each other, and especially the action of the air, would destroy the body entirely, if the loss was not repaired by a proper diet c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031201-0921 | NUX Vomica, a flat, compressed, round fruit, about the breadth of a shilling, brought from the East Indies. It is found to be a certain poison for dogs, cats, and other animals, and it is not to be doubted that it would also prove fatal to man. Its surface is not much corrugated, and its texture is firm like horn, and ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031202-0921 | NUYTS, Peter, a native of Holland, and a leading character in that extraordinary transaction which happened between the Japanese and the Dutch about the year 1628. In 1627 Nuyts arrived in Batavia from Holland, and was in the same year appointed ambassador to the emperor of Japan, by the governor and council of Batavia... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031203-0921 | NUYTS ’ Reefs, several large reefs of rocks which lie off the south coast of New Holland, at Cape Nuyts. These reefs are about eight miles distant from the coast, and are eight miles in length. In some places the rocks rise above the water, and in others they are wholly concealed. Long, of Cape Nuyts, 132. 18. E. Lat. ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031204-0921 | NUZZER, or Muzzeranah, a present or offering from an inferior to a superior. In Hindustan no man ever approaches his superior for the first time on business without an offering of at least a gold or silver rupee in his right hand; and if this be not taken, it is a mark of disfavour. Nuzzeranah is also used to signify t... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031205-0921 | NYCHTHEMERON, amongst the ancients, signified the whole natural day, or day and night, consisting of twenty-four hours, or twenty-four equal parts. This way of considering the day was particularly adopted by the Jews, and seems to have owed its origin to the expression of Moses in the first chapter of Genesis, “The eve... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031206-0921 | NYCTASTRATEGI, amongst the ancients, were officers appointed to prevent fires in the night, or to give alarm and call assistance when a fire broke out. At Rome they had the command of the watch, and were called ηοο∙ turni triumviri, from their office and number. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031207-0921 | NYIREGYHAZA, a town of the circle of Szaboles, in the province of Farther Theiss, in Hungary. It contains a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Calvinist, and an Unitarian church, a public grammar-school, 1100 houses, and 8066 inhabitants, who are employed in cultivating the vine, and in several trades. Long. 22. 38. 10. E. Lat. 4... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031208-0921 | NYKOPING, a province of the west of Sweden, which extends in north latitude from 58. 36. to 59. 30., and in east longitude from 15. 28. to 17. 33., and contains 2977 square miles. It comprises seven cities or towns, and 3327 detached settlements, with 98,500 inhabitants. It is a district of mountains and lakes, intermi... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031301-0934 | NYLACKY, one of the Banda Islands, in the Eastern Seas. Long. 130.33. E. Lat. 4. IL S. | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031302-0934 | NYMPH, in Mythology, an appellation given to certain inferior goddesses, inhabiting the mountains, woods, and waters, and said to have been the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys. All the universe was represented as full of these nymphs, who were distinguished into several ranks or classes. The general division of them wa... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031303-0934 | NYMPHAEA, amongst the ancients, certain structures, although it is doubtful of what kind they were. Some take them to have been grottoes, deriving their name from the statues of the nymphs with which they were adorned; but that they were considerable works, appears from their having been executed by the emperors, or by... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031304-0934 | NYSA, or Nyssa, in Ancient Geography, a town of Ethiopia, to the south of Egypt. Some place it in Arabia. I his city, with another of the same name in India, was sacred to the god Bacchus, who was supposed to have been educated there by the nymphs of the place, and who received the name of Dionysus, which seems to be c... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031401-0947 | O, THE fourteenth letter and fourth vowel of our alphabet, being pronounced as in the words nose, rose, hose. The sound of this letter is often so soft as to require it double, and that chiefly in the middle of words, as goose, reproof, woof ; and in some words this double oo is pronounced like u short, as in blood, fl... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031402-0947 | OAK. The oak has long been known by the title of “monarch of the woods,” and, we may add, justly.
The ancient Druids had a profound veneration for oak trees. Pliny says that “the Druids, as the Gauls call their magicians or wise men, held nothing so sacred as the misletoe, and the tree on which it grows, provided it b... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031501-0960 | OAKA, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Gujerat, nd capital of a district of the same name. It was long the ïsidence of a gang of pirates, who preyed upon the trade nd shipping that frequented those seas. They at length ι ceived a severe chastisement from the East India Com-any’s marine, and afterwards agreed to ... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031502-0960 | OAKHAMPTON, a borough and market town in the unty of Devon, and hundred of Lifton, 195 miles from mdon, and twenty-one from Exeter. There is very little ∣de in this place, the manufacture of serges having of e years disappeared. The corporation consisted of a mayor, burgesses, a recorder, and eight aldςrmen. It returne... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031503-0960 | OAKINGHAM, or Wokingham, a market-town of the hundred of Sonning, in the county of Berks, but with the singularity, that a part of the town, including the church, is in the hundred of Amesbury, and the county of Wilts. It is thirty-two miles from London, and seven from Reading, and is situated on the border, within the... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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kp-eb0716-031504-0960 | OANNES, a being in Chaldaic mythology, represented as half a man and half a fish. According to Berosus and other fabulous writers, this monster was the civilizer of the Chaldaeans, to whom he is said to have taught a system of jurisprudence so perfect as to be incapable of further improvement. In discharging the duties... | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, SEVENTH EDITION: A MACHINE-READABLE TEXT
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