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NIN-ANGA'NI, f. in botany. See Gomphrena. 
NIN-O', in chronology, the name of the era moll com¬ 
monly ufed among the japanefe. It commences with the 
reign of Sin-ma, the founder of their monarchy, 660 
years before the Chrillian era. 
NI'NAF, a town of Egypt, on the left bank of the 
Nile : fourteen, miles north of Cairo. 
NINCOMPOO'P, J’. [a corruption of the Latin non 
compos.'] A fool; a trifler.—An old ninnyhammer, a do¬ 
tard, a nincompoop, is the bell language fhe can aftord me. 
Adclifon. 
NIN'DIA, a town of Bengal: eighteen miles north of 
Burd wan. 
NI'NE, adj. [niun, Goth, mgon, Sax.] One more than 
eight; one lei’s than ten.—The faults are nine in ten owing to 
afteCtation, and not to the want of underftanding. Swift. 
The weird fillers 
Thus do go about, about, 
Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, 
And thrice again to make up nine. Shakefpeare's Macbeth. 
NINE, f. The number or figure reprefenting five ancT 
four; as, Put a nine in that place ; Call out the nines to 
prove your fum.—The lall of the radical numbers or cha¬ 
racters, from the combination of which any definite num¬ 
ber, however large, may be produced.—It is obferved by 
arithmeticians, that the products of nine compofe always 
either nine orfome lefler products of nine, if you add to¬ 
gether all the characters of which any of the former pro¬ 
ducts are compofed : thus of 18, 27, 36, which are products 
of 9, you make 9, by adding 1 to 8, 2 to 7, 3 to 6. Thus 
369 is a produCt alfo of 9; and if you add 3, 6, and 9, you 
make 18, a lefler produCt of 9. Hume. 
NINE. See Nen, vol. xvi. 
NINE-FEET F.AR'BOUR, a bay on the weft coaft of 
Florida. Lat. 27. N. Ion. 82. 50. W. 
NI'NE-FOLD, adj. Nine times; any thing nine times 
repeated; 
This huge convex of fire, 
Outrageous to devour, immures us round 
Nine-fold.. Milton's P. L. 
NI'NE-HOLES, a boyilli game, played at the com¬ 
mencement of the feventeenth century. Mr. Strutt fays, 
“ I have not met with any delcription of this paftime; but 
I apprehend it refembled a modern one frequently prac¬ 
ticed at the outfkirts of the metropolis ; and faid to have 
been inllituted, or more properly revived, about twenty 
years back, as a fuccedaneum for Ikittles, when the ma- 
giftrates caufed the {kittle-grounds in and near London to 
be levelled, and the frames removed. The game is fimply 
this : Nine holes are made in a fquare board, and difpofed 
in three row's, three holes in each row, all of them at equal 
diftances, about twelve or fourteen inches apart; to every 
hole is affixed a numeral, from one to nine, fo placed as to 
form fifteen in every row. The board, thus prepared, is fix¬ 
ed horizontally upon the ground, andfurrounded on three 
fides with a gentle acclivity. Every one of the players, 
being furniftied with a certain numberof fmall metal balls, 
{lands, in his turn, by a mark made upon the ground, 
about five or fix feet from the board ; at which he bowds 
the balls; and, according to the value of the figures be¬ 
longing to the holes into which they roll, his game is reck¬ 
oned ; and he who obtains the higheft number is the 
winner. Dr. Johnfon confounds this paftime with that 
of liayles, and fays, e It is a kind of play Hill retained in 
Scotland, in which nine holes, ranged in threes, are made 
in the ground, and an iron bullet rolled in among them.’ 
“ I have formerly feen a paftime praCtifed by fchool- 
boys, called nine-holes, or marble-board. It was played 
with marbles, which they bowled at a board, fet upright, 
refembling a bridge, with nine fmall arches, all of them 
numbered; if the marble {truck againft the fides of the 
arches, it became the property of the boy to whom the 
board belonged ; but, if it went through anyone of them, 
the bowler claimed a number of marbles equal to the 
number upon the arch it paffed through.” Three-holes is 
alfo played with marbles. A marble is to be {hot fome cer¬ 
tain diftance into the firft hole, from the firft into the fe- 
cond, See. See. Sports and Pa/limes, p. 204., 5. 
_ NINE I'SLANDS, a clufterof fmall iflands in the Pa¬ 
cific Ocean ; fo called by Capt. Carteret. Lat. 4. 40. S. 
Ion. 154. 30. E. 
NINE MEN’s MOR'RICE. See Morrice, vol. xvi. p.17. 
NINE-MILE HOU'SE, a village of the county of 
Tipperary, Ireland; well known to thofe who travel the 
great louthern road, as the ftage between Kilkenny and 
Clonmell. It is feventy-one miles fouth-weft from Dub¬ 
lin, and eleven north-eaft from Clonmell. 
NI'NE-PENCE, f. A lilver coin valued at nine-pence. 
—Three filver pennies, and a nine-pence bent. Gay's Pafl. 
NINE-PIN COL'LAR , J\ A fort of horfe-collar which 
is made fomewhat in the form of the ninepin. 
NI'NE-PINS, J\ A play where nine pieces of wood are 
fet up on the ground to be thrown down by a bowl. See 
Skittles. —A painter made bloffoms upon trees in De¬ 
cember, and fchool-boys playing at nine-pins upon ice in 
July. Peacham. 
For as when merchants break, o’erthrown 
Like nine-pins they ftrike others-down. Hudibras. 
NI'NE PINS, two fmall iflands on the Mergui Archi¬ 
pelago, near the weft coaft of Saddle Ifland. 
NINE-SCO'RE, adj. Nine times twenty. —Eugenius 
has two hundred pounds a-year; but never values him- 
felf above nine-Jcom, as not thinking he has a right to the 
tenth part, which he always appropriates to charitable ufes. 
Adclifon's Sped. 
NiNETEE'N, adj. Nine and ten ; one lefs than twenty. 
—Nineteen in twenty of perplexing words might be chang¬ 
ed into ealy ones, fuch as occur to ordinary men. Swift. 
NINETEE'NTH, adj. The ordinal of nineteen; the 
ninth after the tenth.—In the nineteenth year of king Ne¬ 
buchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan. 2 
Kings, xxv. 8. 
NI'NETIETI-I, adj. The ordinal of ninety ; the tenth 
nine times told. 
NI'NETY, adj. Nine times ten.—Enos lived ninety 
years, and begat Cainan. Gen. v. 9. 
NINETY-SIX',a dillriCt of the upper country ofSouth- 
Carolina, weft of Orangeburg diftriCl, and comprehends 
the counties of Edgefield, Abbeville, Laurens, and New¬ 
bury. It contains 33,674 white inhabitants, fends twelve 
reprelentatives and four fenators to the ftate-legiflatiire, 
three of the former and one of the latter for each county, 
and one member to congrefs. It produces confiderable 
quantities of tobacco for exportation. The chief town is 
Cambridge, or, as it was formerly called, Ninety-Six, be- 
caufe it was fo many miles diftant from Keowe in the 
Cherokee country ; and it was originally fiirrounded with 
a ftockade, as a protection againft the Indians. In 1780, 
it was taken by the Britiflij by whom it was further forti¬ 
fied with fixteen falient angles, a ditch, frieze, and abbatis. 
The town is fifty-one miles weft-north-weft of Columbia. 
Lat. 34. 8. N. Ion. 82. 2. W. 
NIN'EVEH, in ancient geography, the capital city of 
Aflyria, founded by Athur the fon of Shem, (Gen. x. n.) 
or, as others read the text, by Nimrod the fon of Cufli. 
However this be, yet it muft be owned that Nineveh 
was one of the moft ancient, the moft famous, the 1110ft 
potent, and largeft, cities of the world. It is very diffi¬ 
cult exaftly to affign the time of its foundation; but it 
cannot be long after the building of Babel. It was fitu- 
ated upon the banks of the Tigris ; and in the time of 
the prophet Jonas, who was fent thither under Jeroboam 
II. king of Ifrael, and, as Calmet thinks, under the reign 
of Pul, father of Sardanapalus, king of Aflyria, Nineveh 
was a very great city, its circuit being three days’jour¬ 
ney ; (Jonah iii. 3.) Diodorus Siculus, who has given us 
the dimenfions of it, lays, it was 480 ftadia in circumfer¬ 
ence, or 47 miles; and that it was furrounded with lofty 
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