N I Z 
province, runs into the Gulf of Bothnia five miles fouth 
of Sundfwall. 
NIURUN'DA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Medelpadia : ten miles fouth of Sundfwall. 
NI'WA, a town of Sweden, in Welt Bothnia, on the 
Tornea: fixteen miles north of Tornea. 
NI'WEGAL, a villagelyingon thecoaft, in Pembroke- 
fliire, South Wales, remarkable only for the difcovery of 
an immenfe quantity of the Humps of trees appearing be¬ 
low low-water mark, after and during a ftorm in the year 
1590, notwithstanding the country all round is now 
entirely barren of wood. 
NIX MAR'TIS, f. Snow of Iron ; a fubflance, or pre¬ 
paration, not noticed in any of our dictionaries or treatifes 
of chemiftry. We find the term no-where explained but 
in Keyfler’s Travels. He fays, “ It is of a beautiful 
white colour, coniifts of very fair and glittering filaments, 
as if made of'the pureft filver. • It is found beneficial in 
feveral cafes, efpecially in gonorrhoea. It is properly the 
pureft particles of iron. Zanchinelli fays it confifts of a 
little quicklilver, a pretty large quantity of l’ulphur, and 
a great deal of falts.” He adds. “ The nix martis is pre¬ 
pared from the filings of fteel diffolved in antimony, and 
refined till by a gentle fire it has been lufliciently fub- 
limed, after which it cryftallizes.” 
NIX'APA. See Nexafa. 
NIXID'II, in heathen mythology, the gods who were 
fuppofed to prefide over women in child-birth. 
NIX'ONTON, a town of North-Carolina, capital of 
Pafquotank county, on a creek of Albemarle Sound: 170 
miles fouth of Wafhington. Lat. 36. 14. N. Ion. 76. 29. W. 
NI'ZA, a town of Portugal, in the province of Alen- 
tejo: fifteen miles north-north-weft of Portalegre. 
NI'ZAM,/. A title beftowed by the Great Mogul on 
one of his principal viziers, on his being appointed to the 
command and adminiftration of certain provinces. The 
word means, an adjlifter, a regulator, an arranger, or ma¬ 
nager, &c. Thus, Nizam ul Mooluc fignifies the protestor 
of the county} and Nizamut the office of nizam. 
Nizam feems to have been originally the name of the 
man rather than of the office; and the celebrity of a 
vizier called Nizam, who flouriffied in the reign of Malek 
Shah Gelaleddin, (1072-1092,) has probably occafioned 
this converfion. Gibbon fpeaks of this ftatefman in the 
following terms: “Nizam, one of the mod illuftrious 
minifters of the eaft, was honoured by the caliph as an 
oracle of religion and fcience; he was trufted by the ful- 
tan as the faithful vicegerent of his power and juftice. 
After an adminiftration of thirty years, the fame of the 
vizier, his wealth, and even his fervices, were transformed 
into crimes. He was overthrown by the infidious arts 
of a woman and a rival; and his fall was haftened by a 
raffi declaration, that his cap and ink-horn, the badges of 
his office, were connected by the divine decree with the 
throne and diadem of the fultan. At the age of ninety- 
three years, the venerable ftatefman was difmified by his 
mafter, accufed by his enemies, and murdered by a fanatic: 
the laft words of Nizam attefted his innocence, and the 
remainder of Malek’s life was ftort and inglorious.” 
Decline and Fall, ch. lvii. 
NIZAMBAD'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Cicacole : ten miles north-eaft of Cicacole. 
NIZAMPATAM', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Guntoor, at one of the mouths of the river Kiftnah, on 
thecoaft of the bay of Bengal: thirty-four miles fouth- 
weft of Mafulipatam. Lat. 15. 55. N. Ion. 80. 48. E. 
NIZAMPET', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Aurungabad : fifteen miles weft of Aurungabad. 
NIZA'O, a river of Hifpaniola, which runs into the fea 
three miles eaft of Cape Nizao. 
NIZEGOROD'SKOE, a province of Ruffia, bounded 
on the north by Koftromlkoe, on the weft by the govern¬ 
ments of Vladimir and Tambov, on the fouth by Pen- 
zenlkoe, and on the eaft by the governments of Kafan 
Von. XVII. No. U65. 
N O 109 
and Simbirlk; about 160 miles in length, and 100 in 
breadth. Lat. 54. 10. to 57. N. Ion. 42. to 46. E. 
NIZ'NEI NOVOGOROD', the capital of the above 
province. 
NIZNOTOSMAN'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Archangel, on the Dwina: forty-eight miles 
eaft of Schenkurlk. 
NI'ZY, or Nisy, J'. [from niais. Whence the Fr. nice, 
in a contemptuous fenfe. Kelham mentions the Norm. 
Fr. nefji , an idiot. A learned writer notices the Heb. 
nibseh, a word of reproach, to exprefs the utmoft con¬ 
tempt of any man’s perfon ; and he lays, “ if it be con- 
fidered, that the b of the ancients had a very loft pronun¬ 
ciation in fome cafes, in all probability the w'ord liill lives 
in our language, and is the fame with nifey." Harris on 
the 53d chap, of Ifaiah, p. 102. It may be, however, of 
the lame origin with Zany, which fee.] A dunce; a lim- 
pleton. A low word. 
True critics laugh, and bid the trifling nifij 
Go read Quintilian. Anon. 
NIZ'ZA de la PA'GLIA, a town of France, in the 
department of the Tanaro, on the river Belbo: feven 
miles north-weft of Acqui, and fourteen fouth-eaft of 
Afti. Lat. 44. 48. N. Ion. 8. 28. E. 
NIZZO'LI (Mario), an elegant fcholar of Italy, was 
born in 1498, in or near Brefcello in the duchy of Modena. 
Of his education nothing is known ; but it appears that 
about 1522 he was invited to relide with the count Gian- 
francefco Gambara of Brefcia, a munificent patron of 
letters. To this nobleman Nizzoli acknowledges the 
higheft obligations for fupporting him by his liberality, 
and favouring his literary ftudies; and their connexion 
appears to have lafted nearly twenty years. His work en¬ 
titled Tkcfaurus Ciceronianus was undertaken at the in- 
ftance of this patron, and printed for the firft time in his 
houfe in 1535. Nizzoli was for fome time private tutor 
to the marquis di Soragna; and was next profelfor of 
eloquence in the univerfity of Parma, where he wrote his 
work “ De veris Principiis et vera Ratione Philofophandi,” 
publifhed in 1553. From Parma he removed in 1562 to 
Sabionetta, where prince Vefpafiano Gonzaga had founded 
a new univerfity. To this inftitution he was appointed 
diredtor and profeflor, by a patent which fpeaks very 
honourably of his learning and morals. At its opening, 
Nizzoli delivered a Latin oration, which was printed in 
the following year. How long he refided at Sabionetta, 
or where he fpent the remainder of his life, does not 
appear. In an infcription to his memory at Brefcello 
dated in 1576, he is faid to have died at the age of feventy- 
eight. Nizzoli was one of the molt elegant Latin writers 
of his time. His Thefaurus Ciceronianus, feveral times 
re-publilhed with additions, and entitled “ Apparatus 
Latina: Locutionis,” is acknowledged to be a very ufeful 
work, though criticifed by Henry Stephens. In his work 
on the true Principles of Philolophiiing, he vehemently 
attacked the peripatetic dodtrines, and particularly ex- 
poled the barbarifms of the fcholaftics, to which, from 
his great love of Ciceronian purity, he was a bitter enemy. 
Of this performance a new edition was given by Leibnitz, 
with an illuftrative preface. Drucker. 
NO, adv. [na, Saxon.] The word of refufal: contrary 
to yea or yes. —If you will not confider thefe things now, 
the time will Ihortly come when you ffiall confider them 
whether you will or no. Calamy's Sermons. 
Our courteous Antony, 
Whom ne’er the word of no, woman heard fpeak, 
Being barber’d ten times o’er, goes to the feaft. Shakefp. 
Henceforth my wooing mind lhall be expreft 
In ruflet yeas and honeft kerfy noes. Shakespeare. 
The word of denial, oppofite to conceffion or affirmation. 
—I think it would not fort amifs, to handle the queftion, 
whether a war for the propagation of the Chriftian faith, 
F f without 
