NEC 
NECK, is that slender part sitiiated be- 
tween the head and tlie trunk of the body. 
See Anatomy. 
NECTARINE. See Persica. 
NECl'ARIUM, in botany, according to 
Linnasus, is a part of the corolla, appropri- 
ated for containing honey, that oozes from 
tlie plant, and is the principal food of bees 
and other insects. 
NECTRIS, in botany, a genus of the 
Hexandria Diaynia class and order. Natu- 
ral order of Tripetaloidete. Junci, Jussieu. 
Essential character : calyx one-leafed, six- 
parted, coloured; corolla none ; styles per- 
manent ; capsules two, superior, ovate, one- 
celled, many-seeded. There is but one 
species, viz. N. aquatica. This plant grows 
in ponds, lakes, and rivers, tliat have not a 
rapid current, pushing out long, knotted, 
fistulous stems, with a pair of leaves at each 
joint. The flowers come out from the ax- 
ils of the leaves, on a long peduncle ; the 
three outer leaves of the calyx are green on 
the outside and yellow witliin. It is a na- 
tive of Guiana and the island of Cayenne. 
NECYDALIS, in natural history, a ge- 
nas of insects of the order Coleoptera. An- 
tennae setaceous or filiform ; four feelers, 
filiform ; shells less tlian the wings, and ei- 
ther narrower or shorter than the abdomen; 
tail simple. There are about forty specie.s, 
in two sections. A. Antenn® setaceous ; 
shells shorter than the wings and abdomen. 
B, Antenn® filiform ; shells subulate, as 
long as the body. N. hujueralis, is found 
in this country ; shells subulate, black, yel- 
low at the basej without lines ; body and 
legs black. 
NE exeut Regno, is a writ to restrain 
a person from going out of the kingdom 
without the King’s licence, Within the 
realm the King may command the attend- 
ance and service of all his liegemen ; but 
he cannot send any man out of the realm, 
not even upon the public service, except sea- 
men and soldiers, the nature of whose em- 
ployment necessarily implies an exception. 
This writ is now mostly used where a suit 
is commenced in the Court of Chancery 
against a man, and he, intending to defeat 
tlie other of his just demand, or to avoid the 
justice and equity of the court, is about to 
go beyond sea. If the writ be granted on 
behalf of a subject, and the party taken, 
he either gives security by bond in such sum 
as is demanded, or he satisfies the court by 
answering (where the answer is not already 
in), or by affidavit, that he intends not to 
go out of the realm, and gives such reason- 
NEE 
able security as the court directs, and then 
he is discharged. 
NEEDLE, a very common little instru- 
ment or utensil, made of steel, pointed at 
one end, and pierced at the other, used in 
sewing, embroidery, tapestry, &c. 
Needles make a very considerable article 
in commerce, though there is scarcely any 
commodity cheaper, the consumption of 
them being almost incredible. The sizes 
are from number 1, the largest, to number 
25, the smallest. In the manufacture of 
needles, German and Hungarian steel are 
of most repute. In the making them, the 
first thing is to pass the steel through a coal 
fire, and under a hammer, to bring it out 
of its square figure into a cylindrical one. 
This done it is drawn ‘through a large hole 
of a wire-drawing-iron, and returned into 
the fire, and drawn through a second hole 
of the iron, smaller than the first, and thus 
successively, from hole to hole till it has ac- 
quired the degree of fineness required for 
that species of needles, observing every 
time it is to be drawn that it be greased 
over with lard, to render it more managea- 
ble. The steel thus reduced to a fine wire, 
is cut in pieces of the length of the needles 
intended. These pieces are flatted at one 
end on the anvil, in order to form the head 
and eye : they are then put into the fire to 
soften them further, and thence taken out 
and pierced at each extreme of tire fiat 
part on the anvil, by force of a puncheon 
of well-tempered steel, and laid on a leaden 
block to bring out, with another puncheon, 
the little piece of steel remaining in the 
eye. The corners are then filed off tire 
square of the heads, and a little cavity filed 
on each side of the flat of the head : this 
done, the point is formed with a file, and 
the whole tiled over : they are then laid to 
heat red hot on a long flat narrow iron, 
crooked at one end, in a charcoal fire, and 
when taken out hence, are thrown into a 
bason of cold water to harden. On this 
operation a good deal depends : too much 
heat burns them, and too little leaves them 
soft : the medium is learned by experience. 
When they are thus hardened, they are laid 
in an iron-shovel on a fire, more or less 
brisk in proportion to the thickness of the 
needles; taking care to move them from 
time to time. This serves to temper them, 
and take olf their brittleness; great care 
here too must be taken of tlie degree of 
heat. They are then straitened one after 
another with the hammer, the coldness of 
the water used in hardening them having 
