NOC 
rank on which h 
been a 
fent to Brafil, Nobrega was nominated hea the miffion, 
and he, with five peace fet fail with Thomé ae Soufa, the 
towards the natives of South America, from which the 
Jefuits never deviated, and on which they eftablifhed ~~ : 
empire in Para et las as oan a ftatefma 
was a miffionary, a e 
as to him ing, that "th 
French did not ee in efablithing Mewes) in Rio 
Janeiro, and dividing nae with the Portuguefe, or, per- 
haps, ejecting them fro € was nominated vice-pro- 
vincial of Brazil in en aad provincial in 1553, when that 
country was made a feparate province. e in 1570, 
at the age of Fae pate oe worn out with the fatigues of 
a mifffénary life. Gen. Biog. 
NOBSQUASSIT, or Nosscusset, in Geography, the 
N.E. part of Yarmouth, in Barnttaple county, Maffachufetts, 
in which are 25 falt-works, that annually pruduce 500 bubhels 
of marine falt. 
ree ae e a town of Hindooftan, in Benares; 
21 miles of Benares. 
N tg a tow of the ifland of Corfica; 12 miles 
N.E. oe Gos 
NOCE* a a een of France, in the department of the 
Orne, and chief place of a enter; in the diftriét of Mor- 
tagne; five miles E. of Belefme. The place contains 1161, 
and the canton 10 ped inhabitants, on a territory of 1824 
kiliometres, in 18 co 
A, a town not earpean Turkey, in the Morea; 
20 miles E. of Mifitra. 
RA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of Spoleto, 
the fee of a eed 16 miles N.E. of Spoleto. N. lat. 43° 
'. E. long. 12° 
: Nocera elle Pagani, a town of Naples, in Calabria 
Citra, the fee of a bifhop, fuffrazan of Salerno ; containing 
12 parith churches, and fix convents. is town, anciently 
called ‘* Nuceria Alphatorna,”’ and’ — a Roman colony, 
had the privilege of coining money. It appears a clufter 
of villages, and is faid to awe 30;000 oa 20 
miles S.E. of Naples, N. lat. 40° 44! E. 1 4° 29'. 
OCERI IANA Terra, £ a 0 Nowra, i in As Materia 
dicine in Germany, It nd fome other parts of the 
world, but not known in the Englifh fhops. It is found at 
Nocera, in Umbria, whence its name. It is now dug prin- 
cipally about Macerata, a city in the marquifate of Ancona, 
he pope’s territories, and is in great etteem in aeleee 
ftruu 
NOCKAMIXON, in Geography, a townthip of Ame- 
rica, in Buck’s county, Pennfylvania, containing 846 inha- 
bitants 
NOCKLE, i in Rural Economy, a provincial term often 
baa to a mallet or beetle. It is fometimes written 
knochle. 
NOCOR, in Geography, a river of indie which runs 
into the Meditereated N. lat. 35° 5 
NOC 
ae in Medicine. See Somnam- 
LISM 
” NOCTANTER, in Law, is the name of a writ iffuing 
out of the Chancery, and a in the King’s Bench 3% 
given by the ftatute of 13 y 
virtue of which ae a where “ one having right to ap- 
prove watte ground, &c. makes and erects a ditch or a 
hedge, and it is thrown down in the night- time, and it can- 
not be known by a verdiét of affize or jury, by whom; if 
the neighbouring vills will not indi&t fuch as are guilty, they 
fhall be diftrained to make again the ro ig er ditch at their 
own colts, and to anfwer damages. The word ao@anter is 
fo neceflary in an inditment of Dieet: ae it hath been 
adjudged infufficient without it 
NOCTIBO, in Ornithology, the name given by the Por- 
tuguefe to a fall Brafilian fa a {pecies of the goat-/uckcr, 
or churn-owl, more known among naturaliits by its Brafilian 
me ibijau. 
o 
rot) 
NOCTILIO, in Zoology. See VasPERTILIO haa ak nus. 
NOCTILUCA, among Naturalifis, a {pecies of phof- 
phorus, fo called becaufe it fhines m che se without 
any light being thrown on its fach i is the phofphorus made of 
urine ; by ome other {pecies 
of phofphorus, which, before ies fae mutt be expofed to 
the fun-beams ; 3 fuch is the Bononian-ftone, &c 
oyle, in a particular treatife on the fubje@, gives an 
account of three noGiluce. The firft, invented by Krafft, he 
calls the confiffent, or gummous noétiluca, as being of a texture 
not unlike that of a cherry-gum » on account of its u 
interrupted ation, was, by the Germans, called the conflant 
iluca ; te us 1t is now known under the denomination 
The fecond is liquid, invented by 
9 
> 
The fame Mr. Boyle, afterwards, panied another fort ; 
which from the little pellucid fragments or bine therein, 
he denominated the i¢y noétiluca. 
NOCTUA, in Ornithology, a {pecies of owl. 
Noéua. For other {pecies of Nodua, fee STR 
“See Srrix 
Noctua Aurita, a name by whi ah fome a; ave = called the 
fmaller a aisege of the horn-owl, more ufually diftinguifhed 
by the name ofus. 
Nocr 1 Canora, aname given by Nieremberg to a bird 
of the Spanith Wet Indies, called by the natives chicuath, 
and fometimes kept by the Spaniards in cages. See Cut 
ATLI. 
a 
Gq 
Nocrua Minor, a name given by Mr. Ray to the heutzlin, 
or, as others call it, the /chaffilt, a very beautiful bird of 
the owl kind, and not exceeding the fize of the common 
ven by fome to grey 
wl. 
Rofe 
CocTURNAL, fomething that relates to right, xox; 
in 
