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without another caufe of hoftility, be lawful or no, and in 
what cafes ? Bacon. —It fometimes confirms a foregoing 
negative: 
My name’s Macbeth.— 
—The devil himfelf could not pronounce a title 
More hateful to mine ear.— No, nor more fearful. Shahefp. 
Never more 
This hand (hall combat on the crooked (bore: 
No; let the Grecian powers, oppreft in fight, 
Unpity’d perifli in their tyrant’s fight. Dry den's Homer. 
It fometimes (Irengthens a following negative: 
No, not the bow which fo adorns the (kies 
So glorious is, or boafts fo many dies. Waller. 
NO, f. A denial. The word of denial; as, He gave me 
a tremendous no. 
NO, adj. Not any; none.—Let there be no ftrife be¬ 
tween me and thee. Gen. xiii. 8.—It feems an adjedlive 
alfo in thele phrafes, no longer, no more, no where; though 
fometimes it may be fo commodioully changed to not, that 
it feems an adverb ; as, the days are yet no (Sorter.— 
When we faw that they were no where, we came to Samuel, 
i ■Sam. x. 14. 
In vain I reach my feeble hands to join 
In fweet embraces; ah ! no longer thine. Dryden. 
In old plays, it was often ufed ironically to point out an 
excefs.—You are no pure rogues. Middleton and Dehlier's 
Roaiing Girl. —Oh, here’s no foppery. Death ! I can 
endure the flocks better. B. donjon's Every man in his 
Humour. 
No one. None; not any one.— No one who doeth 
good to thofe only from whom he expedls to receive good, 
can ever be fully fatisfied of his own fincerity. Smalridge. 
NO, or No-Am'mon, a populous city of Egypt; but 
where, is not agreed. It could not be Alexandria, as 
that was not built when No was ruined. Calmet will 
Lave it to be Diofpolis, in the Delta, which had Buliris 
on the fouth, and Mendefium on the north. Vitringa 
inclines to think it Nopli, or Memphis ; but we rather 
think it was Thebes, or Diofpolis, which is much the 
fame in fignification as No-ammon, the Habitation of 
Jupiter Ammon, as that idol had a famous temple here. 
Brown’s Dili, of the Bible. 
NO MAN’S LAND, a fmall 5 (land near the coaft of 
America, a little to the fouth-weft of Martha’s Vineyard. 
Lat.41.15.N- Ion. 71.5. W. 
NO MAN’S LAND, in fea-language, a fpace between 
die after-part of the belfry and the fore-part of a (hip’s 
boat, when the faid boat is flowed upon the booms, as in 
a deep-waifted veffel. Thefe booms are laid from the 
forecaftle nearly to the quarter-deck,' where their after- 
ends are ufually fuftained by a frame called the gallows, 
which conlifts of two ftrong polls, about fix feet high, 
with a crofs piece reaching from one to the other, athwart 
(hips, and ferving to fupport the ends of thofe booms, 
malls, and yards, which lie in referve to fupply the place 
of others carried away, &c. The fpace called No Man’s 
Land is ufed to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c. 
which may be neceffary on the forecaftle. It probably 
derives this name from its fituation, as being neither on 
the (larboard nor larboard fide of the (hip, nor on the* 
wade or forecaftle; but, being fituated in the middle, par¬ 
takes equally of all thofe places. 
NO' NAME, a lake of North-America, about fifty miles 
Jong, and thirty-five broad. Lat. 60. N. 
NOACAL'LY, a river of Bengal, which runs into the 
Bay of Bengal in lat. 22. 45. N. Ion. g%. 16. E. 
NO'AD, a town of Hindooftan, in Madura: eighteen 
miles weft-north-weft of Coilpetta. 
NOA'DA, a town of Bengal >. fifty miles north-weft of 
JSkyngur. 
JMOADI'AH, [Heb. a witnefs.] A man’s name. 
N O A 
NOAGUR', a town of Bengal: twenty-three miles 
fouth-eaft of Doefa. 
NO'AH, a patriarch and prophet, was the fon of Lantech, 
a defcendant from Seth the third fon of Adam, and born 
in the year 2948 B. C. In his days a general corruption 
of manners prevailed among the human race'; but he had 
the fortitude to preferve himfelf uncontaminated by the 
evil examples which furrounded him, and to fecure the 
divine approbation by his piety and virtue. He under¬ 
took the office of a public preacher, and endeavoured by 
his exhortations and admonitions to reform their morals, 
and to reftore true religion among them. His labours 
proving in vain, and their wickednefs having arrived at 
the higheft pitch, God determined to exhibit a fignal tef- 
timony of his difpleafure againlt vice, and fentenced them 
to deftrudlion by an univerfal deluge. But, as Noah had 
found grace in the eyes of the Lord , God was pleafed to 
felefl him and his family, for the purpofe of perpetuating 
the human fpecies, and of preferving the various clafi'es 
of living creatures from becoming extinct by that dread¬ 
ful cataftrophe. With this view, Noah was divinely di¬ 
rected to build an ark, or veflel, of three decks or (lories, 
divided into apartments, and lufficiently capacious to con¬ 
tain his family, a pair of all unclean animals, or, probably, 
fuch as were not fit for food, and feven pair of all the 
clean fpecies, which might ferve for human fuftenance, 
together with the provilion requiiite for their fupport 
during the period of the threatened judgment. This veflel 
he was ordered to cover with bitumen, both within and 
without, to keep out the water. When it was completed 
and furnifhed with the proper neceflaries, and all the 
animals were colleCled, feven days before the deluge 
Noah was direded to enter the ark, with his family and 
the animals, to be properly fettled againft that event. At 
length the dreadful day arrived which was to difplay the 
commencement of the divine vengeance on a guilty world; 
when the fountains of the great deep broke up, which 
able modern naturalifts fuppofe to have been a preter¬ 
natural eruption of w'ater from the fouthern ocean, and 
an uncommon torrent of rain began to defcend, and con¬ 
tinued for forty days, till the tops of the higheft moun¬ 
tains were overflowed, and a general deftruftion brought 
upon mankind and all living creatures, thofe only ex¬ 
cepted which were prefervea in the ark. This tremen¬ 
dous ruin of the old world took place in the year 2349 
B. C. wdien Noah was 600 years of age. After the flood 
had prevailed an hundred and fifty days, the waters 
began gradually to fubfide; and in the feventh month 
after the commencement of the deluge, the ark, which 
had hitherto floated on their furface, refted on the moun¬ 
tains of Ararat, fuppofed to be the mountains which go 
by that name in Armenia. In the tenth month the tops 
of the mountains were vifible; and forty days afterwards 
Noah fent out of the ark a raven and a dove, the latter of 
which only returned to him, for want of food. Seven 
days afterwards he fent forth the dove a fecond time, 
which returned in the evening, with the leaf of an olive- 
tree in its bill, (howing that what had been the cultivated 
dillridts of the earth were now emerging from the inun¬ 
dation. After the expiration of other feven days, he fent 
forth the dove a third time, which returned to him no 
more, thereby indicating that the earth was in a proper 
(late to afford nutriment to the animals which he bad 
preferved. Noah now made the neceflary preparations 
for quitting the ark, which he left on the firlt day of the 
601ft year of his age, with his wife, his three fons, Shem, 
Ham, and Japbeth, and their wives, and the animals which 
were to Hock the new world; The firft thing which he 
did upon liis landing, was to eredl an altar, on which he 
offered a burnt-facrifice of every clean beaftand of every 
clean fowl, by way of thankfgiving for the merciful de¬ 
liverance which he had experienced. With this expreflion 
of his gratitude the Divine Being was well pleafed, and 
blefled Noah and his family; commanding them to mui- 
