NASAL INDEX 



NASHE 



Nasal Index. Nunil><-r imli<.it 



int; tlir ratio of tin- breadth to the 

 of tho human nose. The 

 lin-adth number, measured aorom 

 the anterior orifice, i multiplied 

 by 100, and divided by UK- length- 

 iiiinilMT, mi-iismvd fnun tlio root 



between the eye-sockets to the 

 illicit- formed by the septum and 

 the lip. Medium noses range from 

 IT with tho American In- 

 : broad above 53, as in most 

 Is and all negroids ; and 

 n, mow In-low 17, amoim tin- Euro- 

 peans and Eskimos. See Anthro- 

 . Anthropometry; Cephalic 

 liide\; Craniometry; Man. 



Nascent State (Lat. wwci, to be 

 born). Expression used of che- 

 mie.-il action which takes place 

 while the atoms of a molecule are 

 in the free state. In this condition 

 elements exhibit a greater activity 

 than usual. For instance, hydrogen 

 may be passed through an arsenical 

 solution without any chemical 

 change taking place, but if the 

 hydrogen is generated in the solu- 

 tion arseniuretted hydrogen is 

 formed and given off as a gas. 



Again, no effect is produced if 

 hydrogen is introduced into a solu- 

 tion of ferric chloride, but the iron 

 salt is reduced to the ferrous state 

 by hydrogen in the nascent state, 

 i.e. generated in the solution 

 itself. The usual explanation of 

 this difference is that the atoms 

 of hydrogen which result from the 

 disruption of the molecule are 

 more active. Another hypothesis 

 is that the nascent hydrogen ions 

 are more active at the moment 

 when they are giving up their elec- 

 tric charges. See Chemistry ; Hy- 

 drogen ; Solution. 



Naseby, BATTI.E OF. Fought 

 June 14, 1645. during the English 

 Civil War. The king's cause was 

 losing ground, and his army of 

 7,500 men was being followed by 

 13,000 parliamentarians under Fair- 

 fax ana Cromwell from Daventry 

 towards Leicester. At Broadmoor, 

 just before entering Leicestershire, 

 Charles decided to fight. His foes 

 fell back and took up a position 

 on some high ground just N. of 

 Naseby, a village 7 m. from Market 

 Harborough. Both armies were 

 drawn up in similar formation, the 

 foot in the centre, with cavalry on 

 both Hanks and a reserve behind. 



The royalists opened the fight 

 by crossing the intervening valley 

 and charging up the hill. On one 

 \\iiiL', with Rupert leading, they 

 put to flight the opposing horse- 

 men, whom they recklessly pur- 

 sued towards Naseby. While the 

 royalist infantry pushed the 

 enemy back, the day was turned 

 by Cromwell's troopers, who, after 

 routing the horse opposed to them, 



fell upon the flank of the infantry. 

 Them- were thrown into confusion, 

 mid the king, who was with the 

 reserve, gave them the word to 

 charge. But the earl of Carnwath, 

 H-.ili/ing the situation, seized the 

 I n idle of his horse and turned it 

 from the field, the attendant troops 

 quickly following this example. 

 The parliamentary foot rallied, 

 and, with Cromwell's horse, soon 

 completed the victory. Rupert, 

 t turning from his pursuit, could 

 do naugnt but follow Charles to 

 Leicester. The royalists lost about 

 1,000 killed and 5,000 prisoners, 

 the king's private papers being 

 seized and afterwards published. 

 See Charles I ; Civil War, The. 



Nash, PAUL (b. 1889). British 

 artist. Born in Kensington, May 

 11, 1889, he was educated at S. 

 Paul's School, 

 and became a 

 pupil at the 

 Blade school of 

 art. At first 

 a figure artist, 

 he turned 

 chiefly to land- 

 scape. In the 

 Great War he 

 served in the 

 Artists' Rifles, 

 in the Hamp- 

 shire Regiment, and as an official 

 artist in France. In this capacity 

 he became known by his vivid 

 paintings and drawings of the front 

 areas. His brother, John Nash, 

 won recognition for his landscape 

 painting, woodcuts, etc. 



maker, he WM educated at Car- 

 marthen Grammar School and Jesus 

 College, Oxford. He was for a 

 brn-f time in the army, and then 

 entered the Inner Temple, 1693. 

 He, ho\M-vcr, took to gambling 

 and living by his wits. In 1705 

 he went to Bath, then beginning 

 to be a fash- 

 ionable resort, 

 and soon set 

 about organiz- 

 ing its social 

 attractions. 

 He succeeded 

 greatly, and 

 came to be re- 

 garded as the 

 arbiter of 

 affairs and ti- 

 tular master 

 He died Feb. 



Richard Nash, 

 18th century dandy 



of the ceremonies. 

 3, 1762, and was buried in Bath 

 Abbey. See Life of Richard Nash, 

 O. Goldsmith, 1762 ; Bath under 

 Beau Nash, L. Melville, 1907; 

 The Beaux and the Dandies. C. 

 Jerrold, 1910. 



Nashe OR NASH, THOMAS (1567- 

 1601). English satirist and critic. 

 Born at Lowestof t, he was educated 

 at S. John's College, Cambridge, 

 graduating in 1586. After travel 

 in France and Italy, he became 

 a prominent figure in literary 

 London, a friend of Greene, Lodge, 

 Marlowe, and others. He took the 

 anti- Puritan side in the Martin 

 Marprelate controversy, engaged 

 in a paper war with Gabriel Harvey 

 (see his Have with you to Saffron 

 Walden, 1596), completed Mar- 



Paul Nash. Night in the Ypres Salient, an impressionist picture of a tire-trench, 

 with a party in No-man's Land working in the glare o! star-shells 



By ptrmiuiOH of (At artiH 



Nash, RICHARD (1674-1762). lowe's Tragedy of Dido, 1594, and 



English dandy known as Beau was imprisoned in the Fleet on 



Nash. Born at Swansea, Oct. 18, account of his suppressed comedy, 



1674, the son of a successful glass- The Isle of Dogs, 1597. His 



