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Yr. §3. te 27 2 gts fomewhat peltate, entire, fmooth 
and even on both fides, Rays of the fti a 
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plant is much sear uires ac 
heat. T e leave. 
flower raifes itfelf out of the water, and e 
feven o’clock in the ere. and clo : es a ie repofing 
upon the furface, about four in the even 
From the third ‘je a — was onal made of the 
feed when dried and 
And in the fourth lind ae Chinefe have the roots not 
only ferved in fummer with ice, but laid up in falt and 
vinegar for winter: the feeds are fomewhat of the fize and 
form oo an el and of a tafte more delicate than that of 
water, aes earth at ottoms, 
flourifhing very well, and producing annually te quantities 
of flowers. 
But the third and fourth fpecies, as being soak fhould 
be kept in fuch troughs or cifterns, and be fet in a corner of 
the ftove n their native fituations they are increafed 
both by their roots and feeds as the common forts in this 
climate. 
JEUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of the 
Tauric Cherfonefus, which had a good port on the Eusine 
fea, and ay ¢ on the route from Theodofia to Panticapza. 
NympHaum Promontorium, the name given by Ptolemy 
to the none - moun 
NYMPH AUS, a port on 
ifland of Sardinia, between 
the: weftern coaft of the 
and Perfian empires. It 
; ered the town of re a and 
difcharged iefelf into the A 5.E. = Am 
NYMPHA ve Payeryors among t Ga Mids an 
appellation given to thefe ale le . the bride from her father’s 
houfe to that of the bridegroo 
NYMP ENA, in Matural Hiftory, the name of a 
ftone found in the beds - ome rivers, and having the ap- 
pearance of a fea-horfe’s tooth. oubt efs it was a petrified 
teoth of that or fome Ghee fuch a {uch things being 
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often found now, though in thofe early ages they were little 
known or regarded. 
NYMPHARIUM, in Botany, a = given by’ the 
Greek writers of the later ages to the water-hly. 
NYMPHARUM Ocut1, in Natur ‘ae ifory, a name 
given by fome of the ancient writers toa rae we eall oculug 
ner Weare told of Caligula, that he carried nape 
armed to the fea-fide, to pick up the nympharum oculi, and 
fhells. It is certain, in this place, the word only means um- 
bilicus Veneris, for the other oculi nympharum are found 
only on the fhores and in the beds of fome particular rivers, 
net on the fea-fhores, among thells. 
HEA, in sh hy {mall ifland in the Medi. 
terranean, near the t of the ifland of Sardinia; 13 
miles W. from the fade o "Ro fla. 
ee NuzPeov, derived from wudn, bride, 
ong the Ancients, a public hall, or building, magnificently 
pee and difpofed for banquetting and entertainment ; 
where thofe, who wanted conveniencies at home, held their 
marriage-fealts, &c. 
- e authors rather take the ancient nympheum to have 
na d with ftatues, jets, and other ornaments; 
aid cre it tad its name by corruption, from Jympheum, of 
pple, water. In which fenfe it muft have been a public 
“NYMPHOIDES, in Botany, or rather, as it ought to 
have been, Nymphaoidee, aname given by Tournefort, to a 
ited wi ENYANTHES ; fee that 
article. to the likenefs of the plants in pease 
to Nymphea, im habit at leaft, though not at all in fru@ifi- 
cation. 
NYMPHOMANIA, in Medicine, by many writers 
ermed furor uterinus, a rare {pecies of difeafe in women, 
chartered d by an rico ate defire for venereal inter- 
ourfe. It is fimilar to the fatyriafis of men. It is fome- 
fae conneéted with a morbid condition of the uterus or the 
Na Sas efpecially with a oe of the latter; and fometimes 
a mere infanity. ork of this nature, however, it 
soaeue to be unneceflary mn au into a minute detail upon 
fuch a fubje@. Sauvages has followed Sennertus, and 
defcribed four — of aa Leg namely, 1, N ba ses 
mania falacitas ; 2. N. furibunda; 3. N. fervor uberé 
so (ae ‘See his Nola “Method. Clafs viii. Orde i ii. 
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‘YMPHOTOMLA, (from yuo and repvw, ia: In 
warm Spain be ay" we are oa fubje& to a 
YO, in Geography, atown of New ia in the proe 
vince of Cinaloa; 10 miles S.W. of Cin 
NYONS, a town of France, and pri cpl place of a 
diftrié, in the a of the Drdme ; 21 miles S.E. of 
Montelimart. e place sien 2724, and the canton 
Speed a on a territory of 220 agig eno res, in 
16 communes. lat. 44° ‘i E. long. 5° 13! 
NYORDBYE, a fmall ifland of Denmark, near the 
N. coaft of Moen, E. of Zealand. N. lat. 75° 3. E. 
long. 12° 13)/, NYQUAM 
