N U M 
NUT 
G. N. 
1 
2 
3 
1 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
I 2 I 
is] 
14 
15 
lol 
17 
18 
19 
Dorn, 
Let. 
A 
59 
19 
5 
26 
12 
33 
19 
12 
26 
19 
5 
26 
12 
5 
26 
If 
33 
19 
12 
B 
27 
13 
6 
27 
13 
34 
20 
13 
27 
20 
6 
27 
13 
6 
20 
13 
34 
20 
6 
C 
8 
4 
7 
21 
14 
35 
21 
7 
28 
21 
7 
28 
14 
7 
21 
14 
28 
21 
7 
D 
19 
15 
8 
22 
15 
29 
22 
8 
29 
15 
8 
29 
15 
1 
22 
15 
29 
22 
8 
E 
30 
16 
2 
23 
16 
30 
23 
9 
30 
16 
9 
23 
16 
2 
23 
9 
30 
23 
9 
F 
24 
17 
3 
24 
10 
31 
24 
10 
31 
17 
10 
24 
17 
3 
24 
10 
31 
17 
10 
G 
25 
18 
4 
25 
U 
32 
18 
11 
32 
18j 4 
25 
18 
4 
25 
11 
32 
18 
11 
Thus, for tlie present year, 1808, the domi- 
nical letter being B, and the golden number 
4, we find the number of direction 27, to 
which add 21, and the sum is 48 from the 1st 
of March; deduct 31 for the number of 
days in March, and the remainder gives the 
day of April for Easter Sunday. 
Nujiber, golden, in chronology. See 
Golden number. 
Number, in grammar, a modification of 
nouns, verbs, &c. to acconjmodate them to 
the varieties in their objects, considered 
with regard to number. See Grammar. 
Numbers, in poetry, oratory, music, &c. 
are certain measures, proportions, or ca- 
dences, which render a verse, period, or 
song, agreeable to the ear. 
NUMERAL letters, those letters of the 
alphabet which are generally used for figures, 
as I, V, X, L, C, D, M. 
NUMERATION, or notation, the art of 
expressing in characters any number pro- 
posed in words ; or of expressing in words 
any number proposed in characters. See 
Arithmetic; Notation. 
NUMERICAL, or Numeral, some- 
thing belonging to numbers ; as numerical 
algebra is that which makes use of numbers 
instead of letters of the alphabet. Also, 
numerical difference is the difference where- 
by one individual is distinguished from ano- 
ther. Hence a thing is said to be numeri- 
cally the same, when it is so in the strictest 
sense of the word. 
NUMIDIA, the Pintado, or guinea- 
hen, in natural history, a genus of birds of 
the order Gallinae. Generic character; bill 
strong and short, with a carunculate cere 
at the base, in which the nostrils are lodged; 
head horned with a compressed coloured 
callus; wattles hanging from thp cheeks; 
tail short, and pointing downwards ; body 
speckled. There are four species. N. 
nieleagris, is of the size of a very large 
fowl, and is the nieleagris of the ancients, 
who used to prize it as a high delicacy. Its 
native territory is Africa, and particularly, 
perhaps, Nubia. It is gregarious, having 
been often seen in very numerous flocks. 
It is now extremely common in this coun- 
try. The female lays many eggs, and, se- 
creting her nest, sometimes w'ill suddenly 
appear with a family of twenty young ones. 
It is a bird of harsh sound, and almost per- 
petually uttering it. The flesh of the young 
birds is valued, and its eggs are tliought 
preferable to those of the common hen. 
See Aves, Plate X. fig. 5. 
NUNEZ (Pero) in biography, one of 
the ablest mathematicians of his time, born 
at Alcaza do Sal, in Portugal. He taught 
publicly in the university of Coimbra, and 
instructed the Infante de Luis so well, that 
it ia said he fitted him for a professor. Pero 
Nunez is well known in the history of 
science, as the person who made the first 
improvement in the method of reading an 
observed angle, and the scale which he in- 
vented for this purpose, though it has re- 
ceived some improvements, is still called 
the Nonius, his latinized name. His works 
are numerous. 
NUT-gaWs are excrescences formed on 
leaves of the oak by the puncture of an 
insect which deposits an egg on them. The 
best are known by the name of Aleppo- 
galls, imported very largely into this country 
for the use of dyers, calico printers, &c. 
These are bard like wood, of a blueish 
colour, and of a disagreeable taste. They 
are partly soluble in water, and what re- 
mains is tasteless and possesses tlie pro- 
perties of the fibre of wood. By expe- 
riments Mr. Davy found that 500 grains 
of Aleppo-galls formed with water a solu- 
tion which yielded by slow evaporatioa 
185 grains of matter, which was composr 
ed of 
Tannin 130 
Gallic acid and extract 31 
Mucilage and extract 12 
Lime and saline matter... — 12 
See Tannin. i85 
