NUC 
country along the coaft, and of the territory that lies between 
Egypt and Dongola, is fubje& to the dominion of the Turks. 
Sandy deferts abound in this country, intermixed with vari- 
ous diftridts, efpecially thofe that are adjacent to the rivers, 
whic commonly fertile 
NUBIGENUM Zs, a term ufed by fome hiftorians 
to fignify copper generated 1 in the clouds, and falling from 
thence with rains, or in ftorms. They talk alfo of iron, 
and of -ftones produced the fame way, and call them ferrum 
as Sei and Japides nubigeni. 
any of aad i hiftorians mention the falling of 
iron in duft, and in large pieces; and Avicenna tells us 
{uch things of “Traly. Phil. Tranf. N° 156. See Preter- 
natural RAINS. 
NUBILES Anni. See Ann 
A, in Geography, an n iflan din the North Pa- 
cific ocean, with three {mall ones lying n ear it, S 
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rh 
Cape gay on the coaft of Mexico. N. lat. 16° 4o'. 
W. long. 122 
NUBLE, a river as Chili, which runs into the Plata, 
20 miles frem its m 
NUCAIL, a ate ioe Africa 5 70 miles §.W. of Fez. 
compound peace plants, ot ae 
owers are monoecious, the ma Bice oaiedncesie with 
perfectly diftin& anthers, the females only co d or 
enera ftand thus in the 
aggre Gen. Pl. Stoebe, 
Tes cdenanibus, Artemifia, Seriphium, Eriocephalus, Filago, 
Micropus, Iva, Parthenium, Ambrofia, Xanthium, Strumpfia. 
To thefe are added in his manufcript Hippia, Gnaphalium, 
Xeranthemum, and Cliba dium 
NUCAMENTUM, ie eacient Latin name for the cat- 
kin, or pendulous ftring ss flowers, for the moft part male, 
as in the wie boy r which Linnzus ufes the term 
N CASSE, i in 2 Geran, a town of America, in the 
Tenneffee ftate ; five miles S. of Knoxville. 
NUCERIA, Nocera, in Ancient Geography, : Agi 
of Italy, in Campania, towards the co- 
mee nl was conducted thither was in ae time of Au- 
BNUCHA, - hinder part of the nape of the neck; 
called alfo cerv 
NUC AN, i in Geography, a town of Roffia, near the 
fea, which. feparates the continent of Afia from America 
N. lat. 66°. E. amar 14! 
NUCHI, Nueut, or Scheki, the capital of a country 
near the Cafpian ‘fea, called a and fituated i in the ele- 
vated ridge of mo 
oops of Nadir Shah. popu 
tron of the city and of the village belonging to it amounts 
to about 2800 families. To the S. of Nuchi, on the ban 
of the Kur, lies a large and fourithing market-town, called 
Akdafeh. 
NUCI, La, ; town of Naples, in the province of Bari; 
12 miles 8. W. of Monopoli. 
NUCIFE ROUS, an appellation given by botanifts to 
trees which aa uts. 
NU GA, in Ornithology, a name given by many to 
the aaa. or grofs-beak, from its breaking nuts and 
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NUD 
the ftones of — See Loxta Coccothraufles. See alfo 
Corvus A ed nei 
IPERSICA, in Botany. See Amyep 
NUCK, Anruony, in Biogr “hy, a dultinguifhed “Dutch 
phyfician and anatomift, flouri ithe 
oy at mae hae in the 
_ He filled the office oe rofeffor of anatomy and 
farge er the univerfity of the sattdd place, and was alfo 
ry) He purfued his dif- 
m, 
the practice of furgery. The following is a catalogue of 
his publications. ‘* De Vafis aquofis Oculi,’? Leid. 1685. 
“ De DuGu falivali novo, Saliva, duétibus aquofis et hu- 
more aqueo oculorum,”’ ibid. 1686. Some fubfequent edi- 
tions of this work were entitled, ‘ Sialographia, et du@tuum 
aquoforum Anatome nov - nographia curiofa, et 
teri foeminei Anatome nova, cum Epiitola ad Amicum de 
Inventis novis.”’ &c. * Operationes et Ex- 
d. 1692 
aren Chirurgica,” ibid. 1692, and frequently reprinted. 
The three laft mentioned works were publithe together, in 
three {mall volumes, at Lyons, in 1722.' Eloy Di&. Hitt. 
NUCKIANZ GLannu_, in Anatomy, a number of 
{mall glands, fituate in that part of the {kull wherein the 
orbits of the eyes are, sabes the a as te 
the eyes and the upper part of the jugale. See 
GLa 
They were thus denominated from their -difcoverer, An- 
thony Nuck, profeffor of phyfic at Leyden 
The fame author gave his name to a falival du@, dudus 
Nuckianus. 
NUCLEUS, a Latin word, literally denoting the kernel 
of a nut, or hcnen ruit; or, more he the edible part 
contained within ae fin of the ker 
ucLEus is alfo ufed by Botani ifs in a larger fenfe, for 
any fruit or feed contained within a hu 
UCLEUS i8 eae ufed by Hevelius, i fom r aftro- 
of a mee which others “call its head, 
ET. 
ee Com 
oy fo e to the central parts of 
the ice and other Laie as feppenng them to be loofe 
Ae the exterior part, which they confider as a cortex or 
¢ 
Nucteus, in Architedure, denotes the middle part of the 
flooring of the ancients, confifting of a {trong cement, over 
which they laid the pavement, bound with mortar 
DEAH, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Bengal ; 30 niles E.N.E. Burdwan — a town of 
Hindooftan, i in Dooab; 24 “niles S. of Can 
NUD E, a town = Hindooftan, in ie circar of 
Ellichpour ; 24 miles S.W oat. 
NUDDYA, a town of Bengal; 31 miles N.W. of 
Burdwan 
NUDE Compact, Nudum Padum, a bare contra€t, en 
— or promife of a thing without any confidera- 
: Ex quo, fay the ayes non oritur afio. See Con- 
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ae 
Nuve Matter denotes a islets allegation of a thing done. 
NUDIPEDALIA, among the ancients, a feftival in 
which all were obliged to walk bate fos ted. 
This was done on account of fome pili calamity, as 
the plague, famine, an intenfe drought, and the hike. 
It was likewife ufual for the Roman matrons, when any 
{upplication and vows were to be made to the goddefs Vetta, 
to walk in proceffion to her temple bare-footed. 
NUDITIES, 
