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upon an extended Scale. The only other reafon againft 
this meafure is, the apprehenfion that the revenue might 
Suffer. About two millions a-year are raifed upon to¬ 
bacco by cuftoms and excife ; and it is faid that a lower 
duty would be necefiary to protect the tobacco of home- 
growth. There feems reafon to believe, however, that 
the fame duty being impofed, the favingof the expenfe of 
the voyage would be Sufficient to give the preference re¬ 
quired ; and the flighteft-attention to the ftrudture of the 
a£ls for raifing duties upon hops, will fuffice to prove, 
that tobacco-grounds might be fubjedfed, without any 
difficulty, to a Similar duty. In the midft of our prefent 
agricultural diftrefi'es, no experiment ffiould be hailily re- 
jedted which promifes a fair chance of fuccefs, unlefs it 
can be ffiown that ferious rilks would be incurred by try¬ 
ing it. In the prefent cafe it fliould feem, that the Simple 
failure of the experiment is the word: effedl that could fol¬ 
low from making it. 
NICOU'RIA, a rocky iflet in the Grecian Archipelago, 
near the north coaft of Amorgo. 
NICO'YA, or St. Luca'r, a town of Mexico, in the 
province of Cofta Rica, on a river which runs into the 
Pacific Ocean. The inhabitants lend from hence to Pa¬ 
nama, fait, honey, maize, wheat, fowls, and the purple 
juice of a Ihell-filh found in the Bay of Salinas, about 
thirty miles eaft of the town. The Spaniards have alfo a 
pearl-filhery. It is eighty miles weft of Carthago. Lat. 
10. 36. N. Ion. 85. 50. W. 
NIC'SAR, or Niksar, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in 
Caramania, the fee of an archbilhop ; fituated in a valley, 
and at the extremity of a plain watered by the Kalki 
Irmak, which difcharges itfelf into the Amafia, and is 
thus conveyed into the Black Sea. 
The approaches to Nikfar are faid to exceed, if poffible, 
in beauty and rich vegetation, thofe to Karakiftar. It is 
a long town, crowned by a ruined fort of confiderable ex¬ 
tent; the walls and towers appear to be works of the Sa¬ 
racenic age, and at a diftance exhibit a pidturefque ob- 
jedt; though they would now afford but an impotent de¬ 
fence. Aftream from the hills rulhes through the valley, 
and turns the wheels of many mills for cutting the pines 
into planks. The houfes are no longer terraced; their 
roofs are moftly of wood, (helving, and covered with tiles. 
The ancient Neocaefarea may be eafily recognifed under 
the name of Nikfar; and it is interefting as the city and 
bilhopric of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus, who found there 
but 17 Chriftians, and left but 17 Pagans. He built a 
church in this city, under Philip, who commenced his 
reign in the year 24.1 ; and this, according to Tillemont, 
was the firft of which hiftory gives us any certain account. 
This town is placed by Morier, in his “ Journey through 
Perfia, &c.” at thirty miles from Tocat. Lat. 39.25. N. 
Ion. 85. S o. E. 
_ NICTA'RIA, f. [from the Gr. vizy , a vi&ory.] A fes¬ 
tival and facrifice on obtaining a vidtory. 
To NIC'TATE, v.u. [riido, Lat.] To wink.—There 
are Several parts peculiar to brutes, which are wanting in 
man ; as the Seventh orfufpenfory mufcle of the eye, the 
niblatirig membrane, and the ftrong aponeurofes on the 
fides of the neck. Ray. 
NICTA'TION, f. A twinkling of the eye. Coekeram. 
NICTAU', a river of Nova Scotia, which runs into the 
fea at Annapolis. 
NIC'TITATING MEM'BRANE, in anatomy, a thin 
membrane which covers the eyes of Several creatures; de¬ 
fending them without a total obftrudtion of vifion.-—The 
obfervation may be repeated of the mufcle which draws 
the nictitating membrane over the eye. Its office is in the 
front of the eye ; but its body is lodged in the back part 
of the globe, where it lies fafe, and where it incumbers 
nothing. Raley's Nat. Theol. 
NICUE'SA, a river of Mexico, which runs into the Bay 
of Honduras in lat. 13. 42. N. 
NID, a river of England, which paffes by Ripley, 
Vol. XVII. No. 1162. * 
NID 77 
Knareffiorough, &c. and runs into the Oufe Seven miles 
above York. 
NI'DA, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Natangen : 
twelve miles weft-fouth-weft of Lick. 
NIDAU'. See Nydau. 
NID'DA, a town of the principality of Upper Heffe ; 
thirty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Mentz, and twenty 
north-eaft of Franckfort on the Maine. Lat. 50. 26. N. 
Ion. 9. 2. E. 
NID'DA, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Maine at Hochft. 
NID'DUI, in the Jewifti cuftoms, is ufed to Signify 
“ feparated or excommunicated.” This, according to 
Some, was to be underftood of the minor Sort of excom¬ 
munication in ufe among the Hebrews. He that had in¬ 
curred it was to withdraw himfelf from his relations, at 
leaft to the diftance of four cubits : it commonly conti¬ 
nued a month. If it was not taken off in that time, it 
might be prolonged for 60or even 90 days; but if, within 
this term, the excommunicated perfon did not give Satis¬ 
faction , he fell into the cherem, which was a Second fort 
of excommunication ; and thence into the third Sort, 
called Jhummata, or Jhematta, the rnoft terrible of all. But 
Selden has proved that there were only two kinds of ex- 
communication, viz. the greater and lei's ; dud that thefe 
three terms were ufed indifferently. Chambers. 
NIDDYCOR'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in Madura: 
thirty miles north-eaft of Coilpetta. 
NTDE,/ [nidus, L at. a neft.] A brood; as, a wide of 
pheafants. 
NI'DECKEN, or Niedecken, late a town .of France, 
in the department of the Roer, fituated on a rock, and 
Surrounded by rocks ; now reftored to Pruffia. It is thir¬ 
teen miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Juliers. Lat. so. 44. N. 
Ion. 6. 25. E. 
NI'DEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province’of Samland, 
on the Frifch Nerung: twenty five miles South of Memel. 
NI'DENSTEIN, a town of the principality of Heffe : 
Seven miles South of Caffel. 
NID'EREHNHEIM, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine: twelve miles South-weft of 
Stralburg. 
NI'DERNDORFF, a town of Auftria: twelve miles 
north-north-weft of Grein. 
NI'DERVILLER, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Meurte : two miles eaft of Sarrebourg, and 
fix South-weft of Phallbourg. 
NI'DERWASSER, a Small river of Germany, which 
runs into the Wutach. 
NI'DERWOLTZ, a town of the duchy of Stiria: eight 
miles north-eaft of Muehrau. 
NID'GET, f. [corrupted from nithing or nidihg; the 
opprobrious term with which the man was anciently 
branded who refufed to come to the royal ftandard in 
times of exigency. Johnfon. —In colloquial language a 
nidget is a trifier; and So the old Fr. nigeur, which Cot- 
grave renders “ a fop, a nidget, a trifier;” and we had 
formerly the fubftantive nidgeries for fooleries. Todd.\ A 
coward; a daftard.—There was one true Englilh word of 
as great, if not greater, force than them all, now out of 
all ufe ; it fignifieth no more than abjeft, bafe-minded, 
falSe-hearted, coward, or nidget. Camden's Rem. —If at all 
ufed at prefent, it is as a familiar corruption of an ideol 
NIDIFICA'TION, f. The aft of building nefts.—That 
place, and that method of nidification , doth abundantly 
anfwer the creature’s occafions. Derliam. 
NID'IFICE,/ [from nidify .] A neft, a bird’s neft. Cole. 
To NID'IFY, v. n. [from the Lat. nidus, a neft, and 
facio, to make: but not ufed.] To make a neft. Cole. 
NID'ING,/ [Sax. a w'orthlefs perfon; from niS, vile- 
nefs.] A coward ; a daftard ; a bafe fellow.—There was 
one true Englilh word of as great, if not greater, force 
than them all : it is niding. For when there was a dan¬ 
gerous rebellion againft king William Rufus; and Ro- 
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