N I S 
The orifice at which any animal liquor is feparated.—In 
moll other birds there is only one gland, in which are 
divers little cells ending in two or three larger cells, lying 
under the nipple of the oil-bag. Derham's Phyjico - Thcol. 
NIP'PLE-WORT. See Lapsana. 
NI'QUIB, f. in the Indian armies, the fame as what we 
call a corporal. 
NIR-CARAM'BU, f. in botany. SeeJussiEUA. 
NIR-NOT'SUT. See Volkameria. 
NIR-PUL'LI. See Indigofera and Tradescantia. 
NIRANE'E, a town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad : fix- 
teen miles weft-north-weft of Currah. 
NI'RENJ, f. [Indian.] A reciter of tales or hiftories. 
NIR'EUS, a king of Naxos, fon of Charops and Ag- 
laia, celebrated for his beauty. He was one of the Grecian 
chiefs during the Trojan war.. 
NI'RIS, a town of Perfia, in the province of Farfiftan: 
feventy-five miles eaft of Schiras, 210 eaft-fouth-eaft of 
Ifpahan. 
NIRNO'VA, a river of Moldavia, which runs into the 
Pruth. 
NIR'VA, a town of Japan, in the ifland of Niphon : 
eighty miles eaft-north-eaft of Meaco. 
NIRU'A, a town of South America, in the province 
of Caraccas: thirty miles north-weft of Segovia Nueva. 
NIRU'RI,/ in botany. See Phulanthus. 
NIS, [ne is; Sax. nip] Is not. Obfolete. —Leave me 
thofe hills, where harbrough nis to fee. Spenfer'sShep. Cal. 
NI'SA, in ancient geography, a celebrated plain of 
Media, near the Cafpian Sea, famous for its horfes. 
NI'SA. See Nesa, vol. xvi. 
NISABU'R. See Neisapour, vol. xvi. 
NISAMPA'RA, a town of Hindooftan in Bahar : 
twenty-three miles fouth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
NI'SAN, f. A month of the Hebrews, anfwering to our 
March, and which fometimes takes from February or 
April, according to the courfe of the moon. It was the 
firft month of the facred year, at the coming out of Egypt; 
(Exod. xii. 2.) and it was the feventh month of the civil 
year. By Mofes it is called Abib. The name Nifan is 
only fince the time of Ezra, and the return from the cap¬ 
tivity of Babylon. 
On the firft day of this month the Jews failed for the 
death of the children of Aaron ; (Lev. x. 1, 2, 3.) On 
the tenth day was celebrated a fait for the death of Miriam 
the filler of Mofes ; and every one provided himfelf with 
a lamb for the palfover. On this day the Ifraelites palled 
over Jordan under the condudt of Jofliua; (Jofh. iv. 19.) 
On the fourteenth day, in the evening, they lacrificed the 
pafcal lamb; and the day following, being the fifteenth, 
was held the folemn palfover; (Exod. xii. 18. &c.) On 
the fixteenth they offered the flieaf of the ears of barley 
as the firft fruits of the harvelt of that year; (Levit. xxiii. 
9. &c.) The twenty-firft was the oftave of the palfover, 
which was folemnized with particular ceremonies. On 
the twenty-fixth the Jews failed in memory of the death 
of Jolhua; and on this day they began their prayers to 
obtain the rains of the fpring. On the twenty-ninth 
they called to mind the fall of the walls of Jericho. 
NISA'O, a river which rifes in the centre of the ifland 
of St. Domingo, and falls into the fea on thefouth fide, 
feven miles weft of Nigua-river. 
NISA'RI, anciently Nifyros, an ifland of the Mediter¬ 
ranean, facing Cape Crio, from which it is diftant only 
three leagues. It feems to have been feparated from the 
ifland of Stancho; and of its origin the ancient poets 
have given the following allegorical account: Neptune, 
it is faid, being in purfuit of a giant, detached a piece of 
the ifland of Cos, in order to overwhelm him; and this 
piece, under which the giant was crufhed, became the 
ifland of Nifari, on which a temple to Neptune was erefled, 
in order to commemorate its formation. Under this al¬ 
legory we may difcoverthat the effort of Neptune to con¬ 
quer the refinance of the giant, means no more than the 
violence of an irruption of the waters, which, burfting 
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through every obftacle, worked for themfelves a paflage 
acrols the lands of Cos or of Stancho. Nifari is an ifland 
of fmall extent, elevated, and ftony : it prelents warm 
waters, and other veftiges of volcanoes ; grind-ftones are 
very common, and it produces feveral forts of commodi¬ 
ties in abundance ; but it wants a harbour where veffels 
can call anchor in fafety. Nifari is diftant twenty miles 
from Rhodes. Lat. 36. 35. N. Ion. 27. E. 
NISCH'LITZ, a lake of Silefia, in the principality of 
Glogau : four miles weft-fouth-well of Schwibufin. 
NIS'DORF, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz : ten miles north of Kamnitz. 
NISEMAS'SE, a duller of fmall iflands in the Eaftern 
Indian Sea. Lat. 8. 15. N. Ion. 128. 42. E. 
NI'SEY, f. [from the Fr. niais.~] A filly fellow. Scott. 
NISH, one of the fmaller Weltern Iflands of Scotland. 
Lat. 56. 14. N. Ion. 5. 48. W. 
NISHAMPOU'R, a town of Bengal, and chief place 
of the circar of Pooftole : 150 miles north of Calcutta. 
Lat. 25. 5. N. Ion. 88. 38. E. 
NISH'AMPSHACK, a river of New Brunfwick, which 
runs into the St. John in lat. 46. 1. N. Ion. 66. 45. W. 
NI'SI, a river of Sicily, which runs into the fea fifteen 
miles fouth of Medina. 
NI'SI, a town of European Turkey, in the Morea. 
Lat. 37. 10. N. Ion. 22. E. 
NI'SI PRI'US,/ in law, a judicial writ which lieth in 
cafes where, the jury being impannelled, and returned be¬ 
fore the juftices of the bench, one of the parties requells to 
have fuch writ, for the eafe of the county, whereby to 
will the flieriff to caufe the inqueft to come before the 
juftices in the fame county, at their coming thither. It 
is called a writ of itiji prius ; and its eftedt is, that the 
flieriff is hereby commanded to bring to Weftminller the 
men impannelled, at a certain day, before the juftices, 
nifi prius jufticiarii domini regis ad affijas capiendos venerint; 
that is, “ unlefs the juftices go, before that day, into fuch 
bounty to take aflifes.” This they are fure to do, in the 
vacations preceding each Eafter and Michaelmas terms, 
and there difpofe of the caufe ; which faves much expenfe 
and trouble to the parties, the jury, and the witnefles. 
See Assise. 
NIS'IBIN, or Nisbin, anciently Nifibis, a fortrefs of 
Afiatic Turkey, in the government of'Moful: feventy 
miles north-well of Moful. Lat. 37. N. Ion. 40. 30. E. 
NIS'IBIS, in ancient geography, a city very ancient, 
very noble, and once of very confiderable ftrength, 
fituated in a dillridl called Mygdonia, in the north of 
Mefopotamia, towards the Tigris, from which it is diftant 
two days’journey. Some afcribe its origin to Nimrod, 
and fuppofe it to be the Achad of Mofes. The Macedo¬ 
nians called it Antioehia of Mygdonia (Plutarch) ; fituated 
at the foot of Mount Malius (Strabo). It was the Roman 
bulwark againlt the Parthians and Perfians. It fultained 
three memorable lieges againlt the power of Sapor, A. D. 
338, 346, and 350; but the emperor Jovianus, by an ig¬ 
nominious peace, delivered it up to the Perfians, A.D. 363. 
Mr. Ives, who palled through this place in 1758, tells 
us, that “ it looked pretty at a dillance, being feated on 
a confiderable eminence, at the foot of which runs a river, 
formerly called the Mygclonius, with a Hone bridge of 
eleven arches built over it. Juft by the river, at the foot 
of the hill, or hills (for the town is feated on two), begin 
the ruins of a once more-fiourifliing place, which reach 
quite up to the prefent town. From every part of this 
place the moll delightful profpedls would appear, were 
the foil but properly cultivated and planted ; but, inftead 
ofthofe extenfive woods offruit-trees which Rawolffpeaks 
of as growing near the town, not above thirty or forty 
ftraggling trees of any kind can be perceived ; and, in- 
llead of that great extent of arable-land on which he 
dwells fo much, a very inconfiderable number of acres 
are now remaining. The town itfelf is delpicable, the 
ftreets extremely narrow, and the houfes, even thofe 
which are of Hone, are mean. It fuffered grievoufly by 
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