N1ID 
The — «¢ Neocwefarea’”? may be eafily recognifed under 
th Nikfar; and it is interefting as the city and 
bifhopric of St. Gregor A cevaenal ek eg found there 
but 17 Chriftians, and ‘eft but 17 Pa built a 
sora in this city, under Philip, who panei his reign 
in the year 241; and this, scaring to T eeinad was the 
firft of which hiftory gives us any certain accou i 
town 1s placed by Morier, in his * oe through Perfia, 
&c.”” at 30 miles from Tocat. N. lat. 25’. E. long. 
85° sol. 
NICTAU, a river of Nova Scotia, which runs into the 
fea at Annapolis. On its banks are quantities of bog and 
mountain ore, where a bloomery is erected. 
NICTITATING Memprans, in Anatomy, a thin mem- 
brane, which covers the eyes of feveral creatures, and fhelters 
them from duft, or too much light; yet is fo thin, that they 
can fee indifferently well through it 
This nictitating membrane is chiefly found in the bird and 
fifh kind. 
This membrane, in the eagle’s eye, is remarkably clofe 
and firm, infomuch as to be accounted as a fecond eye-lid ; 
and hence that remarkable firmnefs of the eagle’s fight in 
viewing the fun. See Anatomy of Burns. 
NICUESA, Gulf cf, in Geography, lies on the eaft 
coaft of the country of Elo nduras, on the Spanifh main, 
having Cape Gracias-a-Dios for its north limit, and Cape 
Blanco on the fouth ; 3 os due weft from Catherine or aad 
vidence. N. lat. 13° 4 
NIDA, a town of tiie in the province of Natangen ; 
¥2 miles W. S.W. of Lick. 
NIDDA, a town of the Se Ca aed of a Heffe ; 
38 miles E.N.E. of Mentz. N. lat. 50° E. long. 
eof 
NIDDUJ, in the Jewifh ee is ufed to penity | - 
parated or excommunicated. This, according to fom 
to be pao of the leffer fort of excommunication i fe 
among the rews. 
draw himfelf ‘from his relations, at leaft t 
four cubits: it commonly continued a sane If it was 
not taken off in that time, it might be prolonged for fixty, 
or even ninety days: but if, within this term, the excom- 
municated perfon did not give fatisfaGion, he fell into the 
cherem, which was a fecond fort o eal auras 3; and 
thence into the ae fort, called /Lamma 
t of all. a t 
t y tas inds of excommunication 
greater and lefs; and that thefe tie terms were aha indif. 
erently. 
NIDDYCORDA, i Geography, a town of Hindooftan, 
in Madura; 30 mi'es petra. 
NI > a town of Pruffia, in the oa of Sam- 
land, on the Frifch Nerung; 25 miles § emel. 
NIDENSTEIN, a town of the cae of Heffe ; 
7 miles S. of Caffel 
NIDERNDORFF, a town of Auftria; 12 miles 
N. 
NIDERWOLTZ, a town of the duchy of Stiria ; 
8 miles N.E. of Mu ckrau. 
NID 
NIDJI BABAD, or ce hg hc in Geography, a town 
of Hindooftan, in Oude; built by Najab-ud- Dowlah, as a 
convenient mart hevween #iindooftan and Cachemire ; 80 
NIE 
ret N.N.E. of Delhi. N, lat. 29° 35’. E. long. 782 
*'NIDUM » in Axcient Geography, a town of Britain, 
marked in Antonine’s Itinerary, between Bomium and If- 
S, NeEst, a ae wherein certain animals, 
esrccalealy fowls, infects, and reptiles, lodge their eggs, 
for incubation ; ond wherein, when hatched, they eee 
till chey become able to fhift for en elve 
Uhe word is Latin, and is fuppofed to be derived from 
nidor, a rank or ill fmell: in regard the nefts of animals 
ulually flink. 
Dr. Derham fays, he has often wondered how wafps, 
hornets, and other infects, that gather dry materials, (as 
the duft cf wood feraped for that purpofe,) fhould find a 
roper glutinous matter to cement and glue their combs, 
and line their cells: but he adds, that, in all probability, 
it is in pal own bodies ; as in the tinea veftivora, the cad- 
worm, 
Goedar A culeee: of his erucas, that fed on leaves, that 
fad) ade their cells of leaves glued together with their own 
‘Nipvs Avis, in Botany, Bird’s Neft. See Nzorria, and 
EPIPACTIS, n. n 
_NI EI 
town called “ Cuniftorges.” It was formerly the capital 
of a {mall Moorifh kingdom, and taken by the Chriftians i in 
the 13th century $ ur miles N.E. of Moguer. N. lat. 37° 
19’. W. jong. 6° 46! 
Nearer a town of Poland, in Galicia; 32 miles 
S.W. of Halitfe 
NIECE, a ae relative to uncle and aunt, Dgnifying a 
brother’s or fifter’s daughter ; which, in the civi » is the 
rade ee of confanguinity ; and, in the common aes the 
“N TECHOROSSCZA, in Geography, a town of Poland, 
in the palatinate of Kiev; 56 miles W. S.W. of Kiev 
OZ, atown of Poland, in the palatine of 
Kiev; 56 miles W.S.W. “a ay 
ee ac of France, in the depart- 
of the Lower Rhine, ‘and chief place of a canton, in 
the “dittri of Wiffembourg ; 12 miles S.W. of Wiflem- 
a i 
bourg. e place contains 1438, and the canton 13,8113 
— on a territory of 185 kiliometres, in 20 com- 
munes. 
’ NIEDEROLM, a town of France, in the department 
of Mont eee a chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
tri of Maye place contains 591, and the canton 
9413 ee ae in 18 communes. 
NIEDZWIEDTOZE, a town of ee in the 
palatinate of ee ani ; 26 miles W. W. of Sluck. 
E UszZ, a town of ) alr in the 
Thomm 
ena in the language of the Ceylonte, 
the n f a fpecies of cinnamon. T hich pro- 
uces it refembles the nieke, another tree very common 
isis a ray b nd of cinnamon, and ery 
