NAIADACEAE 



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Naiadaceae. Natural order of 

 marsh, marine, and fresh water 

 herbs. With creeping rootstocks, 

 and often floating leaves, they are 

 natives of all climates. The flowers 

 are green and inconspicuous. Well- 

 known examples are the fragrant 

 Cape pond weed Aponogeton, the 

 European pond weeds Potamogeton 

 and the sea-grass Zostera. 



Naiads OR NAIADES. In Greek 

 mythology, nymphs of rivers, 

 brooks, springs, and fresh water 

 generally. See Nymphs. 



Naidu. SABOJOTI. Indian author. 

 Born at Hyderabad, Deccan, she 

 was educated at King's College, 

 London, and at Girton College, 

 Cambridge. She published three 

 volumes of verse in English, and 

 on her return to India lectured on 

 social and educational subjects, 

 devoting her attention especially 

 to the feminist movement. 



Naihati. Town of Bengal, India, 

 in the dist. of the 24 Parganas. It 

 is situated on the left bank of the 

 Hooghli, 24 m. above Calcutta. 

 Pop. 18,200. 



Nail. Piece of metal consisting 

 of a thin shank or tang, commonly 

 tapered towards or pointed at one 

 end, the other being formed with a 





Nail. Vertical section through 

 human nail and nail-bed, a, 

 Stratum malpighii, and, b, stratum 

 granulosum, of nail-bed ; c, deep 

 layers of nail substance ; d, super- 

 ficial layers. Highly magnified 



head. It is used for driving into 

 wood or other material to secure 

 one piece to another, or to serve as 

 a projection upon which a variety 

 of objects may be supported or 

 hung. Nails are usually fashioned 

 of iron, brass, or copper, and 

 are cast, cut, wrought, or formed 

 from wire. Nails are often distin- 

 guished as twopenny, 1 in. long : 

 threepenny, IJins. long ; and four- 

 penny, 1 ins. long. 



In biology they 

 are homologous 

 with the hoof 

 and claw of 

 other animals. 

 See Horn. 



Nain. Ancient 

 town in Galilee, 

 situated 6 m. 

 S.E. of Naza- 

 reth, on the 

 summit of Little 

 Hermon, or the 

 hill of Moreh. 

 The ancient 

 town was pro- 

 bably on its 

 summit. It was 



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14 . - Nail. 1. Cut nail. 2. Cut brad 



or floor brad. 3. Oval wire nail. 4. Small ditto. 5. Wall nail. 6. Small 

 clout nail. 7. Panel pin. 8. Round wire nail. 9. Galvanised chisel-pointed 

 roof nail. 10. Bright roofing nail. 11. Brass-headed nail. 12. Lath nail. 

 13. Small stout tack. 14. Screw nail. 15. Drugget pin. 16. Chair nail. 

 17. Tinned tack. 18. Cigar-box pin. 19. Small pin. 20. Wire gimp pin 



Until the end of the 18th century the home of a youth whom Christ 

 practically all nails were hand raised from the dead (Luke 7). 

 made forged from nail rods by the Naini Tal. Dist. and town of 

 blacksmith. The chief centre for the United Provinces, India, in the 

 nail-making was in Birmingham, Kumaun division. The dist. is 

 and women and children were situated on the Himalayan slopes 

 largely employed. In 1790 a nail- N. of Rampur State. The annual 

 making machine was invented by rainfall averages 67 his. Only a 

 T. - Clifford in England, but sixth of the area is cultivated. The 

 machinery was first adopted on a town is a hill station reached by 

 large scale in America. Strips of road from the rly. terminus at 

 metal of the thickness of the nail Holdwani. Here are the hot 

 are fed into the machine, which weather headquarters of the ad- 

 automatically cuts the strips into ministration of the United Pro- 

 the required lengths, punches the vinces. Elevation 6,409 ft. Area, 

 shaped heads, and points the nails 2,721 sq. m. Pop. dist., 324,000 ; 

 at the rate of 1,000 a min., or less, town, 9,600. 



Wire or French nails are made in Nainsook (Hind., pleasure of 

 the same way from wire. Orna- the eye). Soft muslin of Indian 

 mental headed nails have the origin. Nainsooks are either plain 

 heads shaped by special dies. or striped, the stripes running 



Nail. Horny scaly growth at lengthways. In India they were 

 the ends of fingers and toes of sometimes made of silk See Muslin, 

 human beings 

 and some ani- 

 mals. The human 

 nail consists of 

 three parts.: the 

 extremity or 

 apex; the oppo- 

 site end or root 

 where it emerges 

 from the flesh ; 

 and the whitish 

 part, termed the 

 lunula, or half- 

 moon. Nails are 

 a special growth 



of the epidermis Naini Talj India The summer station of the United 

 or skin tissue Provinces administration by the lake of Naini Tal 



