NUN 
hiftorian, topographer, and grammarian born in the city 
Evora, in hae latter end of the 16th ce century. He aged 
n the o 
on 
ogee could have been better timed than this hiftory 
of the glorious and fuccefsful refiftance which their fore- 
fathers had made a ainft the fame enemies. In the en- 
» FERNAN DE GUSMAN, ys meh at Valladolid, 
of the order of San- 
Jovian the air — 
mons 
Alcala to their caufe. oung man, to whom he had 
promifed great pecuniary rewards for his affiftance, when 
the infurgents were fuppreffed, attacked him, becaufe this 
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id, and wounded him in the arm. 
The aggreffor was too powerful, and the caufe of the dif- 
pute of too ferious a nature for Nunez to feek redrefs: he, 
therefore, left the univerfity, and removed to Salgmanca. 
Here he was y jena ee profeffor, teaching Greek in 
the oo Latin e afternoo on, and re: oe. aie 
manca, ft place among th 
reftorers of claffical learning in Spain. He is highly cele- 
om fome of which w 
. Nic. Antonio, “ Colebs 
fed innocué, vitiorumque fecniaalee accerrimus.’” 
Vou. XXV. 
His 
N U P 
publifhed works, befides the = which he bore in th® 
ol yglot, are, 1. “ An 
a. 
» and this 
of Don Quixotte.’’ ; biog. 
UNEZ, Pero. See ‘Now 
UNEZ, in Geography, a oo of Spain, in the pro- 
vince of deva; 7 miles N.N.W. of Montella —Alfo, a 
river of Africa, called Nuno, which feparates the Nalos from 
the Sierra Leone, and runs into the Atlantic, N. lat. 19° 
20, W. long. 13° 50! 
pues NI, the Grecian lullaby, or fong peculiar to nurfes. 
"NUNNORE, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 
Bahar, on the Soane ; 2 2 miles §. of Arrah. N. lat. 25° 
20’. E. long. 84° 4 
NUNO Poasina, a » {mall ifland in the Eaft Indian fea, 
near the E. coaft o f Madagafcar. S. lat. 13° 50!. 
Nuno Triftao, a river of Africa, ‘whack runs into the At- 
lantic, N. lat. 9° 40’ 
NUNSARA, a iawn of Hindooftan, in Guzerat; 16 
miles S.-of Surat 
NUNTIO. See Nuncio 
R Osu, in Law, a writ are lies for a coheir- 
efs being deforced by her coparcener of land or tenements, 
whereof their common father or ate: died feifed in fee- 
fimple 
If the anceftor died feifed in fee-tail, the coheirefs de- 
forced fhall have a formedon. 
HAR, in Botany, vedxe of the Greeks, the ed 
Water Lily, or wydaie wran of Diofcorides, from the flow- 
ers of which was anciently prepared a cooling rink. called 
vePapove Turks, according to Dr. Sibthorp, {till 
make one of their kinds of Sherbet, or Sorbet, from thefe 
flowers, which give a kind of bitter almond flavour to the 
liquor in which they are infufed. The modern Greeks call 
the plant w apo, or vere Qapov, of which its Turkifh name, 
Pufer ciceghi, feems a wide corruption, and the French one, 
Nenuphar, {carcely an yas —Smith Prodr. ae Gree. 
61. 
v. I. 361 - Hort. Kew. ed. 2. ye 295. 
(Nymphza ; Lamarck fllnitr, L. 453: f.2. Gertn. t. 19, 
lutea. Salif. in Ann. of Bot. v. 2. 1.)—Clafs and order, 
Polyandria Monogynia. Nat. rd. Hydrocharides, Jufl. Nym- 
pheea, Salif. an order rie ia between the Ranuncu- 
lacea and Papaveracee of Juffier 
Gen. Ch. Cal. Perianth ioe of five or fix large, co- 
Cor. Petale 
by tw 
ior, lar 2 pees ren none ; ftigma 
above, its margin entire or 
» with a coriace- 
Seeds 
Pi if. G men fuperi 
orbicular, peltate, radiat 
notched, permanent. Peric. Berry ovate. 
ous coat, iotrzall a et with numerous cells. 
very numerous, ro olifh 
EM, Ch. Calyx. f five or fix leaves. Petals nymerous, 
GE bearing 
