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chefter-caftle, then the moll important and ftrongeft fort 
of this realm, was ftoutly kept againft him ; after that he 
had but proclaimed that his fubjefts Ihould repair thither 
to his camp, upon no other penalty but that whoever re- 
fufed to come Ihould be reputed a niding; they fwarmed 
to him immediately from all fides. Camden's Rem. —He is 
worthy to be called a niding, one, the pulfe of whofe foul 
beats but faintly towards heaven, as having taken but 
Weak imprelfions of the image of his Maker, who will not 
run and reach his hand to bear up his temple. Howell's 
InftruB. for Trav. 
NID'ING, udj. An old word : abjefl; bafe-minded ; 
cowardly. Carew. 
NIDJIBABAD', orNiDjiBGUR, a town of Hindooftan, 
in the country of Oude. This place was built by Najab- 
ud-Dowlah, as a convenient mart between Hindooftan 
and Cachemire. It is eighty miles north-north-eaft of 
Delhi, and ninety-fix north-north-weft Bareilly. Lat. 29. 
35. N. Ion. 78.41. E. 
NIDOISAU', a town of France, in the department of 
the Maine and Loire : three miles north-weft of Segre. 
NI'DOR, or Nidour, f. [nidor , Lat. nideur, Fr.] 
Scent; favour.—When the flefh-pots reek, and the un¬ 
covered difhes fend forth a nidor and hungry fmells. Bp. 
Taylor's Sermons. —The material demons do ftrangely 
gluttonize upon the nulours and blood of facrifices. Hal- 
lywell's Melampron, 1681. 
NIDORO'SE, or Nid'orous, adj. Refembling the 
fmell or tafte of roafted fat.—The figns of the functions 
of the ftomach being depraved, are eruftations with the 
tafte of the aliment, acid, nidorofe, or foetid, refembling 
the tafte of rotten eggs. Arbuthnot. —Incenfe and nidorous' 
fmells, fuch as of facrifices, were thought to intoxicate 
the brain, and to difpofe men to devotion ; which they 
may do by a kind of contriftation of the fpirits, and 
partly alfo by heating and exalting them. Bacon. 
NIDOROS'ITY, J'. Erublation, with the tafte of un- 
digefted roaft-meat.—The cure of this nidorofity is,by vo¬ 
miting and purging. Floyer on the Humours. 
To NID'ULATE, v. n. To build a neft. Not in ufe. 
NIDULA'TION, /. The time of remaining in the neft. 
—The ground of this popular praflice might be the com¬ 
mon opinion concerning the virtue prognoftick of thefe 
birds ; as alfo, the natural regard they have unto the 
winds, and they unto them again ; more efpecially re¬ 
marking in the time of their nidulation, and bringing 
forth their young. Brown's Vulg. Err. 
NI'DUM, in ancient geography, a town of Britain, 
marked in Antonine’s Itinerary between Bomium and 
Ifcalegua Augufta, or Caerleon. Nidum is fixed by Cam¬ 
den, Gate, and Baxter, at Neath in Glamorganfhire; but 
the real courfe of the road from Maridunumto Ifcalegua 
Augufta is confeffedly very uncertain. 
NI'DUS A'VIS, in botany. See Ophrys. 
NIE'BLA, a town of Spain, in the province of Seville, 
on the river Tinta, containing three parifhes and a con¬ 
vent, with about 3000 inhabitants. Thought to be founded 
on the fite of an ancient town called Cuniflorges. It was 
the capital of a fmall Moorifh kingdom, and taken by the 
Chriftians in the thirteenth century. It is eleven miles 
north-north-eaft of Moguer. Lat. 37.19.N. Ion. 6.46. W. 
NIEBOLOW', a town of Poland, in Galicia: thirty- 
two miles fouth-weft of Halitfch. - 
NIEBUD'SCKEN, a town of Pruflian Lithuania : five 
miles north-north-eaft of Gumbinnen. 
NIECE,/ [niece, niepce, Fr. neplis, Lat.] The daugh¬ 
ter of a brother or lifter; which, in the civil law, is the 
third degree of confanguinity; and, in the common law, 
the fecond. Chambers. 
My niece Plantagenet, 
Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Glofter. 
Shahefpeare's Rich. III. 
NIECHOROSS'CZA, a town of Poland, in the palati¬ 
nate of Kiev : fifty-fix miles weft-fouth-welt of Kiev, 
N I E 
NIECHOROZ', a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Kiev : fixty-four miles fouth-weft of Kiev. 
NIED, a river of Norway, which runs into Drontheim- 
bay near Drontheim. 
NIED, a river of Germany, which runs into the Maine 
near Hochft. 
NIED, a river of France, which rifes near Chateau Sa- 
lins, in the department of the Meurte, and runs into the 
Sarre, near Sierfberg, in the department of the Mofelle. 
NI'EDENBERGE, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Neuftadt : four miles weft-fouth-weft of Ziegenbruck. 
NI'EDER, a river of Germany, which rifes about five 
miles north-eaft of Gedern, and runs into the Nidda fix 
miles weft of Windecken. 
NI'EDER-AU'LA, a town of Germany, in the prin¬ 
cipality of Hersfeld : fix miles fouth-weft of Hersfeld. 
NI'EDERBRONN, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lower Rhine : feven miles north-north-weft 
of Haguenau, and twelve fouth-weft of Weiffemburg. 
NI'EDERNHALL, a town of Germany, in the princi¬ 
pality of Hohenlohe: feven miles north-eaft of Ohringen, 
and twelve eaft-fouth-eaft of Mechmuhl. 
NI'EDERNHALL, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Lower Rhine, on the Kocher: eight miles eaft- 
fouth-eaft Mechmuhl, and ten l’outh-fouth-weft of Mer- 
gentheim. 
NI'EDEROLM, late a town of France, in the (now 
diffevered) department of Mont Tonnerre; containing 
591 inhabitants. 
NI'EDERWANGER, or Schon'wengern, a town of 
Weftphalia, in the county of Mark : four miles eaft of 
Blankenftejn. 
NIEDZWIF.DTO'ZE, a town of Lithuania, in the 
palatinate of Novogrodek : twenty-fix miles weft-fouth- 
weft of Sluck. 
NI'EHTE, or Nahte, a river of Germany, which runs 
into the Elbe eight miles weft of Zerbft. 
NIE'HUS, or Neuhausz, a town of Germany, in the 
duchy of Saxe Lauenburg : eight miles weft of Thomm- 
damm. 
NI'EL, a fmall ifland near the weft coaft of Scotland. 
Lat. 55. 58. N. Ion. 5. 32. W. 
NIELECOHO'LO, a town of Chinefe Tartary. Lat. 
42. x.N. Ion. 124. 17. E. 
NIEM AN'OWICZE, a town of Lithuania, in the pa¬ 
latinate of Troki : forty-eight miles north of Grodno. 
NI'EMBURG. See Nimburg. 
NI'EMECK, a town of Saxony : four miles fouth-eaft 
ofBelzig, and eighteen north of Wittemberg. Lat. 52.4. N. 
Ion. 12. 40. E. 
'NI'EMECK, a town of Saxony: two miles fouth-eaft 
of Bitterfield. 
NI'EMECZ, or Nemes, a ftrong town of European 
Turkey, in Moldavia, fituated on a mountain, at the foot 
of which runs a river of the fame name, which joins the 
Moldava. It is feventy-fix miles weft-north-weft of JafTi, 
and 284 north eaft of Belgrade. Lat. 47. 23. N. Ion. 25. 
58. E. 
NIEMEC'ZYN, a town of Lithuania, in the palati¬ 
nate of Wilna: twelve miles north-eaft of Wilna. 
NIE'MEN, a river which rifes a few miles fouth of 
Minlk in Lithuania, paffes by Grodno and Kowno, w'here 
it joins the Wilna ; it foon after enters Pruffia, changing 
its name to Memel. In Pruffia it paffes by Ragnit and 
Tillit, feven miles below which latter town it divides 
into feveral branches, the two chief of which are the 
Ruffe and the Gilge. 
NIE'MERSAT, a town of Pruflia, in Samland, near 
the Baltic : eight miles north of Memel. 
NIE'MI, a town of Sweden, in Weft Bothnia: forty- 
four miles north of Tornea. 
NIEMOD'LIN, or Falkenberc, a town of Silefia, in 
the principality of Oppeln: fourteen miles weft of Op- 
peln, and fourteen louth-fouth-eaft of Brieg. Lat. 50. 
35. N. Ion. 17. zz. E. 
NIEMUR'OW. 
