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NOEHDEN (George Henry), LL. D., learned German, domiciled in England, and a librarian in the British Museum, was born January 23d, 1770, at Gottingen, and received his education there. At the university he applied himself to the study of Greek and Roman antiquities, under Heyne, whom he assisted in his edition of Homer; and being in 1791 recommended to an English gentleman, at that time residing in Gottingen, he became tutor to his children, and domesticated in his family, and by means of that connexion he was introduced in the year 1793 to Sir William Milner, whose son, the present baronet, he attended at Eton, where he obtained the friendship of Jacob Bryant, Herschel, &c. After this he accompanied a younger son of the family to Gottingen, where he wrote a dissertation De Porphyrii Scholiis in Homerum. In 1800 Noelden published in England his German and English grammar, which has since gone through five editions, and is thought the best extant. He continued to reside in the Milner family till the death of Sir William in 1811, some time after which his character and acquirements procured him to be elected one of the librarians of the museum. The year following (1821) he translated Goethe's observations on the Last Supper of Leonardo da Vinci, with a prefatory essay and notes; and soon after succeeded to the superintendance of the Numismatology of the museum. His work on Northwick coins which now appeared he had intended to comprise in twelve numbers, but his death in March 1826, prevented its extension beyond the fourth number. Among his papers were found incomplete translations of Winckelman's History of Art, and of Lessing's Laocoon; memoranda of his travels; and An Introduction to Numismatology.

NOEL (Alexander), an indefatigable writer of

the seventeenth century, born at Roan in Normandy, 1639. After finishing his studies at Roan he entered into the order of Dominican friars, and was professed there in 1655. Soon after he went to Paris, to study philosophy and divinity in the great convent, where he so distinguished himself that he was appointed to teach philosophy there, which he did for twelve years. Colbert showed him many marks of his esteem; and being determined to omit nothing to perfect the education of his son, afterwards archbishop of Roan, he formed an assembly of the most learned persons, whose conferences upon ecclesiastical history might be of advantage to him. Noel was invited to this assembly, 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 history; for, being desired to reduce what was gave rise to his design of writing an ecclesiastical material in these conferences to writing, he did it with so much accuracy that the learned men who composed this assembly advised him to usdertake a complete body of church history. This he executed with great assiduity, collecting and digesting the materials himself, and writing even the tables with his own hand. He at last completed his work in 1686. Towards the latter part of his life he was afflicted with the loss of his sight. He died in 1724, aged eighty.

NOETIANS, in church history, Christian heretics in the third century, whose heresy consisted in affirming that there was but one person in the Godhead; and that the Word and the Holy Spirit were but external denominations given to God in consequence of different operations, that, as Creator, he is called Father; as incarnate, Son; and, as descending on the apostles, Holy Ghost.

NOGAT, a river and island of Prussia. The former branches off from the Vistula, passes by Marienburg, and joins the Frische Haf about six miles north of Elbing. The island thus formed by the two branches of the Vistula and the Baltic with its bays, is fertile, and of considerable extent.

NOGENT-LE-ROTROU, a post town and chief place of a subprefecture in the department of Eure-et-Loire, France, containing 6500 inhabitants, and having an inferior court of judicature, a board of trade, and a communal college. This town is pleasantly situated in a delightful valley, watered by the river Huisne, at the foot of a steep hill, on the side of which rises a Gothic castle, once the residence of the virtuous Sully. It is generally well-built, very long and airy. At the entrance of the town is seen a waterfall, formed by the waters of the little river Arcise, which turns three mills with astonishing rapidity. In the midst of the town is a fine square meadow, surrounded with houses, and bordered with a beautiful and shady gravelly walk. There are manufactures here of druggets, serges, bolting cloths, linens, &c., likewise cotton spinning factories, and dye-houses. The inhabitants trade in hemp, grain, fodder, &c. This town is thirty-nine miles W.S.W. of Chartres, forty-eight north-east of Mans, and 105 south-west of Paris.

NOGENT-SUR-SEINE, a pretty little posttown, and chief place of a subprefecture in the department of the Aube, containing 3200 inhabitants, and having an inferior court of justice. It is delightfully situated on the left bank of the Seine, which is navigable here, and at the extremity of some immense meadows that border each side of this river. It is generally a wellbuilt, neat, and airy town. In the month of March, 1814, a bloody battle was fought here between the French and the allied armies, during which the bridge over the Seine, the townhall, and several houses, were set on fire; the ruins of part of these edifices still remain.

Here are manufactories of caps, and ropegrounds, and quantities of wood are floated along the river from this place to Paris. A trade is also carried on in grain, flour, wine, vinegar, wood and charcoal, slates, salt, hemp, wool, &c. A passage boat starts hence every Wednesday for Paris. There are some beautiful walks on the banks of the Seine, which command a fine prospect of the country and of the navigation. A handsome flour-mill stands on the Seine. NOG'GEN, adj. Goth. knauke, labor. Hard; rough; harsh.

He put on a hard, coarse, noggen shirt of Pendrel's. Escape of King Charles. NOG'GIN, n.s. Germ. nossel; Irish, neiggen. A small mug or can.

Frog laughed in his sleeve, gave the squire the other noggin of brandy, and clapped him on the back. Arbuthnot.

Tusser.

NOI'ANCE, n. s.` Fr. nuire; Lat. nocere. NOIE, v. a. Injury; mischief; inconNor'ER, n. s. venience: to noie is to inNor'ous, adj. jure; disturb; annoy: a noier, one who annoys: noious, mischievous; troublesome. All these words are out of use. To borrow to-day, and to-morrow to mis, For lender and borrower noiance it is. Let servant be ready with mattock in hand. To stub out the bushes that noieth the land. Id. The north is a noier to grass of all suits, The east a destroyer to herbs and all fruits. Id. Being bred in a hot country, they found much hair on their faces to be noious unto them. Spenser. The false Duessa, leaving noious night, Returned to stately palace of dame Pride.

Id.

But neither darkness foul, nor filthy bands, Nor noious smell his purpose could withhold. Id. The single and peculiar life is bound, With all the strength and armour of the mind, To keep itself from noiance. Shaksɣ tare. Hamlet. NOIR, CAPE, a cape on the west coast of Terra del Fuego, is formed by a steep rock of considerable height, and the south-west point of a large island that seems to lie about a league or a league and a half from the main land. At the point are two rocks, the one peaked like a sugarloaf, the other not so high and less peaked.

Long. 73° 33′ W., lat. 54° 30′ S.

NOIRMOUTIERS, ISLE OF, situated in the Atlantic Ocean, on the coast of France, at the entrance of the bay of Bourgneuf, which it bounds on the south-west. This island forms part of the department of La Vendée, and the arrondissement of Sables d'Olonne, and is about thirty-six square miles in superficial extent. The

soil is excellent and always productive; the inhabitants find very rich manure in the marine plants that cover the coast. Here are many salt marshes; but they are very productive and fine pastures for cattle: there are also vineyards that yield tolerably good wine. Besides the town of Noirmoutiers there are the villages of Barbatre and Epine, including together a population of about 7500. The inhabitants have made very considerable embankınents, by which they have preserved the most productive part of the island, which is twelve feet below the level of the ocean. NOISE,' n. s., v. n., & v. a. NOISE FUL, adj. NOISE LESS,

NOISE-MAKER, n. s. NOIS'Y, adj.

Fr. noise; Arm. noas. Sound; and, emphatically, loud sound;

clamor; outcry; disturbance; fame to noise is to sound loudly: also to spread by rumor or report: noiseful and noisy mean loud; clamorous; viragorious: noiseless, silent; quiet; without sound: noise-maker, a clamorer.

Therfore Jhesus eft makyng noise in himsilf, cam to the graue and ther was a denne, and a stoone was leid theronne. Wiclif. Jon 11. All these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country. Luke i. 65. Whether it were a whistling sound, or a melodious noise of birds among the spreading branches, these things made them swoon.

Wisdom xvii. 18.

On our quickest decrees, The' inaudible and noiseless foot of time Steals, ere we can effect them.

Shakspeare.

Id.

So noiseless would I live, such death to find, Like timely fruit, not shaken by the wind, But ripely dropping from the sapless bough. The issue of all this noise is, the making of the noisemakers still more ridiculous. L'Estrange.

To noisy fools a grave attention lend. Smith. Socrates lived in Athens during the great plague

which has made so much noise through all ages, and never caught the least infection. Addison's Spectator.

They might buz and whisper it one to another; apostle, they then lift up their voices and noised it and, tacitly withdrawing from the presence of the about the city.

Bentley.

Although he employs his talents wholly in his closet, he is sure to raise the hatred of the noisy crowd. Swift.

Convinced that noiseless piety might dwell In secular retreats, and flourish well. Harte. What noise have we had about transplantation of diseases, and transfusion of blood' Baker.

NOI'SOME, adj. From the obsolete NOI'SOMELY, adv. NoIOUS, which see; or Nor'sOMENESS, n. s. Ital. noieso. Hurtful; offensive; unwholesome; noxious: the adverb and noun substantive corresponding.

The filthiness of his smell was noisome to all his army. 2 Maccabees ix. 9. The brake and the cockle are noisome too much. Tusser.

In case it may be proved that, among the number of rites and orders common unto both, there are particulars, the use whereof is utterly unlawful in regard of some special bad and noisome quality; there is no doubt but we ought to relinquish such rites and orders, what freedom soever we have to retain the Hooker. other still.

The seeing these effects, will be
Both noisome and infectious.

Shakspeare. Cymbeline.
Foul words are but foul wind, and foul wind is
but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome.
Id. Much Ado about Nothing.

All my plants I save from nightly ill
Of noisome winds, and blasting vapours chill.

Milton.

NOLA, a town of Naples, in the Terra di Lavoro is the see of a bishop, has an episcopal seminary, and is of considerable antiquity. It is the place where the emperor Augustus died. It is also said to have been the place of the invention and first use of bells. Under the Romans it was a flourishing colony, and numbers of Etruscan vases are still found in it: but its modern town is gloomy and ill built. Silk is raised in the neighbourhood. Sixteen miles east by north of Naples.

NOLANA, in botany, a genus of the mono

gynia order, belonging to the pentandria class of plants: and in the natural method ranking under the forty-first order, asperifoliæ. The corolla is campanulated; the style situated betwixt the germens; the seeds are bilocular, and resemble berries.

NOLDIUS (Christian), a Danish divine, born in 1626. He was rector of the college at Landscroon, and afterwards professor of divinity at Copenhagen; where he died in 1673 He wrote an excellent work, entitled Concordantiæ Particularum Hebræo-Chaldaicarum.

NOLI ME TANGERE, Lat. i. e. touch me not, in botany. See IMPATIENS, and MOMORDICA. NOLITION, n. s. Lat. nolitio. Unwillingness: opposed to volition.

We may too certainly conclude that much more than a single act of contrition, and a moral revocation, that is, a sorrow and a nolition of the past sins, may be done upon our death-bed without effect. Jer. Taylor.

Proper acts of the will are, volition, notitian, choice, resolution, and command, in relation to sub

ordinate faculties.

Hale.

NOLL, n. s. Sax. Pnol. A head; a noddle. An ass's noll I fixed on his head. Shakspeare. NOLLEKINS (Joseph), a modern sculptor of unquestionable genius and talent, was born in London in 1737, his father being a painter distinguished by his close imitation of Watteau. This son was placed under Scheemakers, and in 1759 and 1760 gained premiums from the society of Arts. He then repaired to Rome where he obtained the instructions of the sculptor Cavaceppi, under whom he studied so successfully that he soon had the honor of receiving a gold medal from the Roman academy of painting and sculpture. He materially improved at this time his fortune by becoming a dealer in antiques, and in the productions of Italian art generally. At Rome he executed the busts of many Englishmen; and returning, in 1770, married soon after the youngest daughter of Mr. Justice Welch, with a handsome fortune, and took the lead in his profession. Nollekins was chiefly distinguished by his careful and accurate imitation of nature, and by the absence of all peculiarity but hers. His Venus with the Sandal is esteemed his principal production in the beau ideal; but his busts are much admired. He was a great favorite with George III., eccentric in many points of his character, and a strange mixture of avarice in small matters with great occasional generosity. Nollekins died April 23d, 1823, in the eighty-sixth year of his age, and in the possession it is said of £200,000.

NOLLE PROSEQUI, in law, is where a plaintiff in an action does not declare in a reasonable time; in which case it is usual for the defendant's attorney to enter a rule for the plaintiff to declare, after which a non pros. may be entered. A nolle prosequi is esteemed a voluntary confession that the plaintiff has no cause of action; and therefore, if a plaintiff enters his nolle prosequi, he shall be amerced; and, if an informer cause the same to be entered, the defendant shall have costs.

NOLLET (John Anthony), F. R. S., an eminent French philosopher, born at Pimbre, in the

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diocese of Noyon, on the 17th of November, 1700, of respectable but not wealthy parents. They sent him to the college of Clermont in Beauvoisis; afterwards to Beauvais, and at last to Paris; where he studied scholastic divinity; during his probation in 1728, he was made a deacon, and obtained a licence to preach. His time was now divided between theology and the sciences. The latter, however, prevailed, and he entered into the study of physics with ardor, and was received into the society of arts. In 1730 he was engaged in a work conjointly with Reaumur and Du Fay of the academy of sciences. In 1734 he went to London in company with Messrs. Du Fay, Du Hamel, and Jussieu. His merit procured him a place in the royal society without solicitation. Two years after he went to Holland, where he formed an intimate connexion with Desaguliers, Gravesande, and Muschenbroek. On his return to Paris he resumed the course of experimental physics which he had begun in 1735, and which he continued till 1760. These courses of physics suggested the idea of particular courses in chemistry, anatomy, natural history, &c. In 1708 the count de Maurepas prevailed on cardinal Fleury to establish a public class for experimental physics: and the abbé Nollet was appointed the first professor. 1739 he was admitted a member of the royal academy of sciences; and in April following the king of Sardinia, intending to establish a professorship of physics at Turin, invited him into his dominions. Thence he travelled into Italy. In 1744 he was invited to Versailles, to instruct the dauphin in experimental philosophy; the king and royal family were often present at his lectures. The qualities of his heart as well as of his understanding gained him the esteem of his pupil. In April 1749 he again made a tour into Italy, being sent thither for the purpose of making observations. In 1753 the king instituted a class of experimental philosophy in the royal college of Navarre, and appointed abbé Nollet professor. In 1757 he appointed him preceptor in physics and natural history to the princes, and professor of experimental philosophy in the school of Artillery at Fere. In November following he was admitted as a pensionary of the royal academy of sciences; and in 1761 professor of experimental philosophy at Meziers. He died in Paris on the 25th of April 1770, aged seventy. His works are, 1. Several papers inserted in the memoirs of the academy of sciences; among which one on the Hearing of Fishes is particularly valuable. 2. Leçons de Physique experimentale, 6. vols. 12mo., 1753. 3. Recueil des Lettres sur l'Electricité, 3 vols. 12mo 1753. 4. Essai sur l'Electricité, des corps, 1 vol. 12mo. 5. Recherches sur les causes particulieres des phenomenes Electriques, 1 vol.

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They are also called Numidæ, or Numidians. Sallust says they were a colony of Persians brought into Africa with Hercules. The Nomades of Asia inhabited the coasts of the Caspian Sea. The Nomades of Scythia were the inhabitants of Little Tartary; who still retain their ancient manner of living.

NO-MAN'S-LAND, a space between the after part of the belfrey and the fore part of a ship's boat, when the said boat is stowed upon the booms, as in a deep waisted vessel. These booms are laid from the forecastle nearly to the quarterdeck, where their after ends are usually sustained by a frame called the gallows, which consists of two strong posts, about six feet high, with a cross piece reaching from one to the other, athwart ships, and serving to support the ends of those booms, masts, and yards, which lie in reserve to supply the place of others carried away, &c. The place called No-man's-land is used to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c., which may be necessary on the forecastle. It probably derives this name from its situation, as being neither on the starboard nor larboard side of the ship, nor on the waist or forecastle; but, being situated in the middle, partakes equally of all those places.

NOMARCHA, in antiquity, the governor or commander of a nome, or nomos. Egypt was anciently divided into several regions or quarters, called nomes, from the Geeek voμoç, taken in the sense of a division; and the officer who had the administration of each nome or nomos, from the king, was called nomarcha, from voμos and apyn, command.

NOMBRIL POINT, in heraldry, is the next below the fess point, or the very centre of the escutcheon. Supposing the escutcheon divided into two equal parts below the fess, the first of these divisions is the nombril, and the lower the base.

NOME, or NAME, in algebra, denotes any quantity with a sign prefixed or added to it, whereby it is connected with some other quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trinomial, or the like. See ALGEBRA.

NOMENCLATURE.

NOMENCLATOR, n. s. Į Lat. nomencla Stor; Fr. nomenclature. One who calls things or persons by their proper names: nomenclature, the act of naming, or vocabulary of names; a dictionary.

To say, where notions cannot fitly be reconciled, that there wanteth a term or nomenclature for it, is but a shift of ignorance. Bacon's Natural History.

The watery plantations fall not under that nomenclature of Adam, which unto terrestrious animals assigned a name appropriate unto their natures.

Browne.

There were a set of men in old Rome called nomenclators; men who could call every man by his

Addison.

Are envy, pride, avarice, and ambition, such ill nomenclators that they cannot furnish appellations for their owners? Swift.

NOMENCLATOR, in Roman antiquity, was a slave who usually attended upon persons that stood candidates for offices, and prompted or suggested to them the names of all the citizens they met, that they might address them by their