NOS 
be detecte thers he Heron 
often difgorges a fubftance of the fame nature and appear- 
a er that chemi%s who, fell upon thefe, in- 
ion of the celebrated Spallanzani, ca fome of his 
experiments, at le upon the fame fubje&, were made 
with young aquatic {nails, a had not i acquired moa 
in the aqueduct at Genoa, and that he rejeéted with much 
contempt the information of hee being fuch, and not a ofa 
Tremella, though a little attention would have enabled him to 
trace the animals through their various ae on the fpot, 
c) 
Pd 
oS 
+) 
is] 
or 
w 
et 
their comple fe hat a therefore, in 
various ae relative to the animal nature of Tremella 
Noftec, fhould be received with caution, till we afcertain 
whether thofe who inveftigated the fubje&t were competent 
to know what ean were examining. os to the genuine 
Nofiec, Geoffro o determined its 
vegetable nature. “Micheli defcribes its Tee as ranged in 
lines, like ftrings of minute beads; but we never heard 
fuch being obferved in any Britifh fpecime : 
NOSTRE, or Notre, ANDREW oe | in Bipgr aphy, an 
eminent ie of = was born at Paris in the year 
1613. He was the fon of a gardener, and fucceeded his 
He — received little or 
father in that Gala nene 
ars of age when he was 
Fontainbleau, &c. Le Noftre wen 
afterwards travelled through Italy 3 ere it is faid he found 
nothing in the moft celebrated gardens, ea he had not on 
vifed in thofe of his own planning. s fome time i 
y on the eee we Charles Il, “ 
n 
» but he replied that he 
had one already, “ confifting of ee {nails furmounted by 
a cabbage.’’ At the age of four-fcore he defired permiffion 
to retire, which the king granted him, on ae that he 
would appa come and fee him. at Paris, in 
1700, at the age hi Hei is faid to hav e had a fin e ta e 
t oreri. 
ILS,~the ‘openings of the nofe. in a horfe. 
Thefe fhould be large and extended,fo that the red within 
them may be hala Ae Scat) when he fieezes 
Nostrits, Nare. OSE. 
alate of Birds. See Anatomy of Birps. 
See 
s of a Fifh. FIsH 
au Slitting of i in laa, See Mani. 
es of Scriptu 
of the firft verfe beginning with yy, t 
" nomen eft ? 
NOT 
NOT Guiry, the general ae or ai deh ih - soa 
in any criminal ation. See Non 
NOTABILIA Bona. See Bona. 
NOT Materne, Mother's Spots. See Navu 
a oe the third part or fpecies of the Tenth 
abala. 
Rabbi Nathan, in his Great Aruch, fays, that notaricon 
is when a fingle letter is taken for the fign of athing, i. 
fora whole name. He adds, that the word comes from the 
Latin notarius, a perfon who writes in notes, or fhort-hand ; 
and lias Levita gives the fame account in his Thesbites ; 
except rok in lieu of one letter for a word, he mentions 
woort 
But, re all, parsed the one nor the other feems alone 
{ufficient ; for, as a fingle letter frequently makes a word, 
0, in the n aeons a whole word fometimes ftands for a 
fingle le 
There es therefore, two principal kinds of notaricon: 
the firft is, when, by apherefis, or spit hee the firft or laft 
letters of feveral words are _joine ed to make a fingle word or 
phrafe ; which, therefore, is of two kinds, the one initial, 
the other final ; and each is done feveral ways. The firft of 
thefe kinds, which the rabbins call Ra/che Theboth, appears 
very ancient; and is {uppofed, by fome, well verfed in the 
Hebrew, to have taken its origin from the Pfalms, and 
re, proceeding alphabetically, 4. e. 
the firft letter of the al- 
ee the fecond with ‘9, the fecond letter, &c. Se 
BCE 
The ona kind is.alfo very common, and is called a 
Theboth, i.e. the end of words. For inftance; by telli 
the lait letters of the Hai s SripaymD, Mihi, quadnan 
odnam? They find the name of God, Je- 
ovah. This aera ail more puerile, when they take 
the letters backward 
The third pai is more modern, and is more grofs and 
perplexed. Here a letter gives a whole word, initead of a 
word’s only pag a letter; fo that a word fhall furnifh a 
whole phrafe. 
Pcie for ple, in the firft word of Gen 
we, bri is aon a created the heaven par 
ne earth, the fea, 
ae aoatly denotes one who 
rade notes, or fhort draughts, of contraéts, or other in- 
rum 
From the e 44th Novel of a it appears, that con- 
firtt written in notes 
part 
He adds s, that the notaries were eagpl am of the 
tabelliones; and that feparating, by de » from their 
matters, they at length ereéted offices of their own; and, 
at laft, took place of the tabelliones, who were fu 
hey had their name zofarii from nate 3 becaufe Sealy 
they wrote in notes, or fhort-hand. 
Notaries 
