These bounties, which our nourisher hath caused Due nourishment, no gluttonous delight. Milton. The chyle is mixed herewith, partly for its better conversion into blood, and partly for its more ready adhesion to all the nourishable parts. Grew. When the nourishment grows unfit to be assimilated, or the central heat grows too feeble to assimilate it, the motion ends in confusion, putrefaction and death. Newton's Opticks. The limbs are exhausted by what is called an atrophy, and grow lean and thin by a defect of nourishment, occasioned by an inordinate scorbutick or erratick heat. Blackmore. Through her nourished powers enlarged by thee, She springs aloft. Thomson's Seasons. You are to honour, improve, and perfect the spirit that is within you: you are to prepare it for the kingdom of heaven, to nourish it with the love of God and of virtue, to adorn it with good works, and to make it as holy and heavenly as you can. Law. And seems it nothing in a father's eye That unimproved those many moments fly? And is he well content his son should find No nourishment to feed his growing mind But conjugated verbs and nouns declined? For such is all the mental food purveyed By public hacknies in the schooling trade. Cowper. Pride at the bottom of the human heart Lay, and gave root and nourishment to all That grew above. Pollok. NOURITURE, n. s. Fr. nourrice, nourriNOUR'SLING, ture. See NURSE and NOUR'SLE, v. a. SNURTURE. Tutelage; education : a noursling is used by Spenser for the creature nursed: to noursle by Bp. Hall for to tutor, educate. Thither the great magician Merlin came, As was his use, oftimes to visit me; For he had charge my discipline to frame, And tutors nouriture to oversee. Spenser. NOU'SEL, n. s. The same with nuzzel, and both corrupted from nursle. To nurse up: hence to confine. Obsolete. Bald friars and knavish shavelings sought to nousel the common people in ignorance, lest being once acquainted with the truth of things, they would in time smell out the untruth of their packed pelf and massSpenser. penny religion. NOW, adv., conj. & n. s. Į Sax. nu; Goth., NOWADAY, adv. Swed. and Dan. nu; Teut. nun; Lat. nunc; Gr. vuv: there is also a Pers. nu. At the present time; at any time sup posed to be present; a little while ago: it is often used conjunctively as a particle of connec tion or inference: and, by way of contrast with then, to denote present time emphatically; or a succession of places, as they rise to notice: as a substantive, seldom used but in poetry, it signifies the present moment: now-a-days, means in the present age; in these days. Thy servants trade hath been about cattle, from our youth even until now. Gen. xlvi. 34. Then cried they all again, saying, Not this man but Barabbas; now Barabbas was a robber. St. John. Not so great as it was wont of yore, Spenser. Now whatsoever he did or suffered, the end thereof was to open the doors of the kingdom of heaven, which our iniquities had shut up. Hooker. Now and then they ground themselves on human authority, even when they most pretend divine. Id. Now the blood of twenty thousand men Did triumph in my face, and they are fled. Shakspeare. Reason and love keep little company together nowadays. ld. A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood. Drayton. Natural reason persuades man to love his neighbour, because of similitude of kind: because mutual love is necessary for man's welfare and preservation, and every one desires another should love him. Now it is a maxim of Nature, that one do to others, according as he would himself be done to. White. Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does ever last. How frail our passions! Cowley. Now and then something of extraordinary, that is any thing of your production, is requisite to refresh your character. Dryden. She vanished, we can scarcely say she died, Id. How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honour, where hypocrisy and interest look so like duty and affection? L'Estrange. Now that languages abound with words standing for such combinations, an usual way of getting these complex ideas, is by the explication of those terms that stand for them. Locke. Pheasants which are granivorous birds, the young live mostly upon ants eggs. Now birds, being of a hot nature, are very voracious, therefore there had need be an infinite number of insects produced for Ray. their sustenance. A most effectual argument against spontaneous generation is, that there is no new species produced, which would now and then happen, were there any such thing. Id. It was a vestal and a virgin fire, and differed as much from that which passes by this name nowadays, as the vital heat from the burning of a fever. South The only motives that can be imagined of obedience to laws, are either the value and certainty of rewards, or an apprehension of justice and severity. Now neither of these, exclusive of the other, is the true principle of our obedience to God. Rogers. They now and then appear in the offices of religion, and avoid some scandalous enormities. Id. A patient of mine is now living, in an advanced age, that thirty years ago did, at several times, cast up from the lungs a large quantity of blood. Blackmore. He who resolves to walk by the gospel rule of forbearing all revenge, will have opportunities every now and then to exercise his forgiving temper. What men of spirit nowadays, Come to give sober judgment of new plays. Let my obedience then excuse Nor some reproof yourself refuse Garrick. Pollok. From your aggrieved Bow-wow. Cowley. Of Adam's race he was, and lonely sat By chance that day in meditation deep, Reflecting much of time, and earth, and man; And now to pensive, now to cheerful notes, e touched a harp of wondrous melody. NOWARAHAUT, a town of Bengal, the station of the war and state boats belonging to the nabobs of Bengal. The establishment consisted of 760 boats of various kinds; which, beside the crew of sailors, were manned by 1000 Portuguese, or native Christians, who served as artillery-men; and a jagier or estate was assigned for its support, yielding nearly £100,000 per annum. Since the English reduced this establishment the town has fallen to decay. Ten miles north-east of Dacca. Some men, of whom we think very reverently, have in their books and writings nowhere mentioned or taught that such things should be in the church. Hooker. True pleasure and perfect freedom are nowhere to be found but in the practice of virtue. Tillotson. NO'WISE, adj. No and wise. This is com monly spoken and written by the ignorant noways; not in any manner or degree. These animalcula gloriæ, these flies, these insects of glory, these not bladders, but bubbles of vanity, would be admired and praised for that which is now admirable or laudable. Barrow. A power of natural gravitation, without contact or impulse, can in nowise be attributed to mere matter. Bentley. NOX, Night, in the pagan mythology, one of the most ancient deities among the heathens, daughter of Chaos. From her union with her brother Erebus she gave birth to the Day and the Light. She was also the mother of the Parca, Hesperides, Dreams, Discord, Death, Momus, Fraud, &c. She is called by some of the poets the mother of all things, of gods as well as of men; and she was worshipped with great solemnity by the ancients. She had a famous statue in Diana's temple at Ephesus. It was usual to offer her a black sheep, as she was the mother of the Furies. The cock was also offered to her, as that bird proclaims the approach of day during the darkness of the night. She is represented as mounted on a chariot, and covered with a veil bespangled with stars. The constellations generally went before her as her constant messengers. Sometimes she is seen holding two children under her arms; one of whom is black, representing Death; and the other white, representing Sleep. Some describe her as a woman veiled in moursing, crowned with poppies, and carried in a chariot drawn by owls and bats. J. Haddon, Printer, Finsbury. END OF VOL. XV. |