NOB 
NOG 
Vefuvius, becaufe, on opening thefe' quarries, the work¬ 
men have frequently difcovered tombs, vafes, and coins, 
locked up in the body of the llony ftratum. The cafes of 
their doors and windows are made of a black Hone drawn 
from the hill of Fiano, two miles to the north : it lies 
eight feet below the furface, in a bed or vein 140 feet 
thick, refting upon a bale of fand. This feems evidently 
to be a llream of lava congealed. Nocera has often been 
confounded with Lucera by negligent or ignorant chro¬ 
niclers. The moll remarkable event that occurs in its 
hillory is the fiege of its caftle, A. D. 1384. It is twenty- 
jive miles fouth-louth-well of Cofenza, and twenty fouth- 
-ealt of Naples. Lat. 40.44. N. Ion. 14. 27. E. 
NOCE'TI (Charles), an Italian Jefuit who flourilhed 
in the eighteenth century, was born at Pontre-Moli in 
Tufcany, but in what year we are not informed. After 
taking the vows, and completing his academical ftudies, 
he was appointed profelfor of divinity in the college be¬ 
longing to the Jefuits at Rome. Afterwards he was 
made coadjutor to father Turano, penitentiary of St. 
Peter; and he was appointed one of the examiners of bi- 
fliops. He died at Rome in the year 1759. He was the 
author of Veritas Vindicata, in 2 vols. which is a criticilin 
ott the Theologia Chrilliana of Father Concina, and has 
excited confiderable attention among the Italian divines. 
Noceti alfo cultivated an acquaintance with the Mufes; 
and acquired fome reputation by publilhing a volume of 
Eclogues, and poems on the Rainbow and on the Au¬ 
rora Borealis. Gen. Biog. 
NO'CIVE, adj. [nocivns, Lat.] Hurtful; definitive.— 
Be it that fome nocive or hurtful thing be towards us, mull 
fear of neceflity follow thereupon ? Hooker. 
NOCK,/ [ nocke , Teut. noccliia, Ital.] A flit; a nick; 
a notch : as of an arrow, bow, or fpindle. Huloet. —The 
good fleacher that mended his bolte with cutting of the 
■nocke. Martin'sMarr. of Priejls, 1554.—The fundament: 
When the date of nock was out, 
Off dropt the fympathetic fnout. Hudihras. 
To NOCK, v. a. To place upon the notch : 
Then tooke he up his bow 
And noclit his (haft, the ground whence all their future 
griefe did grow. Chapman. 
NOCKAMIX'ON, a townlhip of America, in Buck’s 
county, Pennfylvania, containing 846 inhabitants. 
NOCK'ED, adj. [from nock.'] Notched. Sherwood. 
Arrows— 
Nockid and featherid aright. Chaucer's Rom. R. 
NO'COR, a river of Morocco, which runs into the 
Mediterranean in lat. 35. 15. N. 
NOCTAMBULA'TION, J’. [nox and ambitlo, Lat.] 
The aft of walking in deep. See Somnambulism. 
NOC'TAMBULE,Noctam'bulist, orNocLAM'BULO, 
one who walks in his lleep.—Refpiration being carried on 
in deep, is no argument againlt jts being voluntary. 
What lhall we fay of nodamhulos ? Arbutlvnot on Air. 
NOCTAN'TER, / in law, is the name of a writifluing 
out of the chancery, and returnable in the king's bench ; 
given by the llatute of Well. 2. 13 Ed. I. c. 46. by virtue 
of which llatute, where any one, having right to ap¬ 
prove walle-ground, See. makes and erefts a ditch or a 
hedge, and it is thrown down in the night-time, and it can¬ 
not be known, by a verdift of aflife or jury, by whom ; if 
the neighbouring vills will not indift fuch as are guilty, 
they lhall be dillrained to make again the hedge or ditch 
at their own cods, and to anfwer damages. 
The word nodanter “ in the night-time,” is fo necef- 
fary in an indiftment of burglary, that it hath been ad¬ 
judged infufficient without it. 
NOCTID'IAL, adj. [nodis, night, and dies, day, Lat.] 
Comprifing a night and a day.—The nodidial day, the 
lunar periodick month, and the folar year, are natural and 
univerfal; but iocommenfurate each to another, and diffi¬ 
cult to be reconciled. Holder. 
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NOCTIF'EROUS, adj. [noxanAfero.] Bringing night, 
NOC riL'UCA, /.' [from the Lat. nox, night, and luceo, 
to fliine.] A kind of phofphorus Alining in the night, 
without any light being upon it. Such is the phofphorus 
made of urine; by which it (lands diltinguilhed from 
lome other fpecies of phofphorus, which, before they 
fliine, mull be expofed to the fun-beams ; fuch is the 
Bononian-llone, &c. See Phosphorus. 
NOCTIL'UCOUS, adj. Shining in the night.—This 
appearance was occalioned by myriads of nodilucous Ne¬ 
reids, that inhabit the ocean,- and on every agitation be¬ 
come at certain times apparent, and often remain Iticking 
to the oars 5 and, like glow-worms, give a fine light. 
Pennant. 
NOCTIV'AGANT, adj. Wandering in the night. 
NOCTIVAGA'TION, f. The aft of rambling or wan¬ 
dering in the night.—Could he not remember what be¬ 
fell him, when, upon the entrance of his adventures, 
this vertigo of nodivagation and watching his arms feized 
him ? Gaifton on D. Quixote. —The towmfmen acknow¬ 
ledge 6s. 8d. to be paid for nodivagation. A. Wood's Life of 
Ilimfelf. 
NOC'TUARY, f. An account of what pafles by night. 
■—I have got a parcel of vifions and other mifcelianies in 
my no£tuar>j, wdiich I lhall fend to enrich your paper. 
Addifon. 
NOCTURN', f. An office of devotion performed in the 
night.—The reliques being conveniently placed before 
the church-door, the vigils are to be celebrated that 
night before them, and the nodurn and the matins for 
the honour of the faints whofe the reliques are. Stillin°-- 
fleet. 
NOCTUR'NAL, adj. Nightly.—I beg leave to make 
you a prefent of a dream, which may lerve to lull your 
readers till fuch time as you yourfelf lhall gratify the pub- 
lick with any of your nodurnal difeoveries. AddiJ'on. 
From gilded roofs depending lamps difplay 
Nodurnal beams that emulate the day. Hnjdsn. 
NOCTUR'NAL, f. An inllrument by which obferva- 
tions are made in the night.—That projeftion of the liars 
which includes all the liars in our horizon, and therefore 
reaches to the thirty-eighth degree and a half of fouthern 
latitude, though its centre is the north pole, gives us a 
better view of the heavenly bodies as they appear every 
night to us ; and it may ferve for a nodurnal, and Ihew 
the true hour of the night. Watts. 
NOCTUR'NOUS, adj. Belonging to the night. Scott. 
NO'CUM, a town of Hindooitan, in the circar of Sir- 
liind : twenty miles north-eaft of Tannafar. 
NOC'UMENT, J\ \nocumentum, Lat.] Harm. Not in 
life .—All thefe noyful nocuments are the holy fruites of the 
whordome of that church. Bale on the Rev. 1550. 
NUC'UOUS, adj. [nocuus, Lat.] Noxious; hurtful. 
To NOD, v. n. [Of uncertain derivation : vtvu, Gr. nuto, 
Lat. amneidio, Wellh. Dr. JohnJ'on. —It is the pall partici¬ 
ple of the Sax. hnigan, to hang the head. The pall tenfe 
of hmgan is hnah : by adding to hnah, or nah, the par¬ 
ticipial termination ed, we have naked, nah'd, nacl (« broad) 
or nod. Tooke’s Div. of Purl. ii. 198. Todd.] To decline 
the head with a quick motion ! 
On the faith of Jove rely, 
When nodding to thy fuit he bows the Iky. Dnjden. 
To pay a flight bow : 
Caffius mull bend his body, 
If Caefarcarelefsly but nod on him. Shakejpeccre. 
To bend downwards with quick motion: 
He climbs the mountain rocks, 
Fir’d by the nodding verdure of its brow. Thonifon. 
To be drowfy.—Your two predeceffors were famous for 
their dreams and vifions, and, contrary to all other authors, 
never pleafed their readers more than when they were' 
nodding. Addifon. 
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