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NIH 
mon law 7 arreft nightwalkers, and fufpicious eee &e. 
Wa ak may alfo Rao nightw walkers, and h m 
until m ing : and, it is faid, that a private per otfon 
arreft any Meats nightwalkey _. ee him till he oe 
a good account of h f. (2 Hal. P.C. 98.) One may be 
bound to ie good | ee for being a nightwalker; and 
ommon nightwalkers and haunters of bawdy-houfes are to 
be indicted before juftices of peace, &c. many it is held not 
lawful for conftable, &c. to take up any woman, as a night- 
walker, on bare fufpicion only of being of ill fame, bain 
os be gui ilty of a breach of the peace, or fome other un- 
awfu 
Nicuawavkens: in a phyfical fenfe. 
LATIO 
2 
Me 
See NocTAMBU- 
. NIGIDIUS sue Pussivs | in mn Blograpeys one of 
ee friend of Cicero, 
the former, and upon Cefar 
h 
terious fect. Univer. ‘Hit. 
NIGLARIEN, in Grok ifs the name of a languid 
nd effeminate nome or ea with which Ariftophanes re- 
proaches its author, Philoxen 
NIG , in Cungraphy, a oun of Italy, in the depart- 
ment of the Panaro; 22 miles S.W. of 
-N > in Daa. a name alluding to the univerfal 
blacknefs affumed by the plants in drying , has been applied 
by Thunberg to two very different ie ngs the MeLasma 
of Bergius, and the CHLorantuus of Swartz; fee thofe 
articles 
NIGRITIA, in Geography. See NEGROLAND 
oo Osstum, among the ancients. “See Ca- 
ill. 
Nunn or Nil debet, is : ufual Mien in an action of debt; 
but it is no ‘aes in an Lira ha covenant, or breach affigned 
for non-payment of r 
NInIL Dicit is isa failing of a 4 defendant to put in an anfwer 
NIK 
to the plaintiff’s plea by the day affigned ; on which omiffien 
judgment is given againft him of courfe, guod nihil dicit, be- 
caufe he alleges nothing to the contrar 
Niuiz, or Nihil: album, in Botany. Sie PomMPHOLYX 
NIHILS, or Nicuits, in Law, iffues which the fheriff, that 
is appofed in the exchequer, fays are nothing worth, and ille- 
la from the infufficiency of the parties aia fhould pay 
- Nous, ala of the, nihilorum clericus. See CLERK and 
xe 
NUJAR,. in Geography, a town of oe in the province 
of Granada ; 12 miles N.E. of Alm 
ate a town of Perfia, in ee ; 15 miles S.E, 
ad. 
NI KALINZIN, a town of Poland, in Galicia; 44 miles 
S. of Halicz. 
NIK ERA, a river of Guiana, oe runs into the At- 
lantic, N. lat. 6°. W. long. 
NIKIA, a town of re Parkey, in Macedonia ; 
26 miles S. E. of Akrida. 
NIKIOPING, or Nyxopine, i. e. New Mart, a fea- 
port ied Sweden, and capital of ‘Sudermanand fituated: at 
the uth of a river, near the is well 
holm in a time of contagion. The number of its inhabitants 
exceeds 12,000; and the city is nearly bifeGted by a large 
river, over which a ftone bridge was erected in 1728. This 
town, which has fuffered much by fire, the ravages of the 
Ruffians, and the ad has two handfome 
in this c he Swedith language is {uppo 
fpoken in a greateft purity at Nik kioping and ite se apeth 
Without this town is a royal enclofure, and the adjacent 
eee is = fertile ; 50 tale S.W. of Stockholm. N. 
lat. 58° 45’. E. long. 16° 53). 
NIKIT 
K, a town ae Ruffia, in the government of 
ofcow; 20 miles S.E. of Mofcow. 
NIKLE|, a town of Egypt, on the left branch of the 
Nile; 10 miles S. of Fao 
NIKMID, or Micra: ee Ismr 
NIKOLAEV SKOI, a town of Rufia, in the govern-— 
ment of Vologda ; 36 miles S.E. of Totma.—Alfo, a town 
of Ruffia, in the government of Tobolfk, on the Undebs ; 
60 miles E.S.E. of Tomfk.—Alfo, a town of Ruffia, in 
the laft-named Clpbbalectatas as miles S.E. of Enifeifk. 
NIKOLAI, or w, a town of Silefia, in the 
lordfhip of Plefz 5 12 le N. of Plefz. N. lat. 50° 8’. 
ong. 18° 50!. 
NIKOLA AJEV, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 
Ekaterinoflav, on the Ingul, near the Bog. This town 
was founded in 1791, and has fince increafed fo rapidly, 
that the admiralty has been Nis Pe from Cherfon ; 
63 miles N.W. of Cherfon. N. lat. 46° 54'. E. long. 3r° 
SNIKOLSK, a town of Ruffia, in ee ops tee 8 of 
x mil 
. lat. E. long. 45° 3 
OI, a oa of Rute m re government of 
Archangel ; 52 miles W.S.W. of Archangel.— Alfo, a town 
of Ruffia, in the government of Archangel, on the Onega ; 
72 miles S.E. of Oneg.—Alfo, a town of Ruffia, in the 
government 
