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To NOD, v. a. To bend ; to incline.—Cleopatra hath 
naddedhSm to her: he hath given his empire up to a whore. 
Shahej'peare's Ant. and Cleop. —To fhake : 
Let every feeble rumour fhake your hearts : 
Your enemies, with nodding • of their plumes, 
Fan you into defpair. Shaliefpeare's Coviol. 
MOD,/. A quick declination of the head.—Children 
being to be reftrained by the parents only in vicious 
things ; a look or nod only ought to correct them when 
they do amifs. Locke on Education. 
A mighty king I am, an earthly god ; 
Nations obey my word, and wait my nod. Prior. 
A quick declination : 
Like a drunken faiioron a mall:, 
Ready with every nod to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. Shaliefpeare. 
The motion of the head in drowfinefs.—Every drowfy nod 
/hakes their doftrine, who teach that the foul is always 
thinking. Locke. —A flight obeifance.—Will he give you 
the nod? Shakejpeare’s Troil. and Crejf. —Since the wifdom 
of their choice is rather to have my cap than my heart, I 
will praftife the infinuating nod, and be off to them molt 
counterfeitly. Shahej'peare's Coriol. 
NOD, or the Land of Nod. It was to this country 
that Cain withdrew after his fratricide; (Gen. iv. 16.) 
The Septuagint, as well as Jofephus, read Naid inflead of 
Nod, and have taken it for the name of a place. It is not 
eafdy know'll what country this was, unlefs perhaps of 
Nyfe, or Nyfea, towards Hyrcania. St. Jerome and the 
Chaldee interpreters have taken the word Nod in the 
fenfe of an appellative, for vagabond or fugitive : “ He 
dwelt a fugitive in the land.” But the Hebrew reads, He 
dwelt in the land of Nod. 
NO'DAB, a country bordering upon Iturea and Idu- 
nisea, but now unknown. We read in the Chronicles, 
that the tribe of Reuben, aflifled by thofe of Gad and Ma- 
naffeh, had a war againft the Hagarites, the Jeturites, and 
the people of Nephifh, and of Nodab, in which the If- 
raelites had the advantage ; (iChron. v. 19.) But the 
time and the other particulars of this war are unknown. 
NO'DAR, or Nou'dar, a town of Portugal, in Alen- 
tejo: twenty-one miles fouth-eaft of Mourao, and twenty- 
four eaft of Moura. 
NODA'TION, / [from nodo, Lat.] The ftate of being 
knotted, or the aft of making knots. Cockeram. 
Nodated Hyperrola, a name given byfirlfaac New¬ 
ton to a kind of hyperbola, which, by turning round, de- 
cuflates or erodes itfelf. 
NOD'DEN, adj. [from nod.] Bent, declined.—To the 
barn the nodden /heaves they drove. ThomJ'on's Caft. of Ind. 
NOD'DER, f. One who makes nods.—A fet of nodders, 
winkers, and whifperers, whofe bufinefs is to ftrangle all 
other offspring of wit in their birth. Pope. —A drowfy 
perfon.—We have fliown, that, according to Mofes his 
philofophy, the foul is fecure both from death, and from 
deep after death, which thofe drowfy nodders over the 
letter of the feripture have very ofcitantly collefted. 
More's Conj. Cabb. 1653. 
NOD'DING, / The aft of reclining the head with a 
quick motion ; the aft of deeping by fhort naps. 
NOD'DLE, J'. [hnol, Sax.] A head ; in contempt.— 
Come, mailer,' I have a projeft in my noddle, that (hall 
bring my hriftrefs to you back again, with as good will 
as ever die went from you. L'Efirange. 
Her care fhall be, 
To comb your noddle with a three-legg’d ftool. Shakefp. 
NOD'DLES I'SLAND, a fmall pleafant idand in Boilon 
harbour. 
NOD'DY, f. [from naudin, Norm. Fr.] A fimple- 
ton ; an idiot!—The whole race of bawling fluttering 
NOE 
noddies, by what title foever dignifled, are a-kin to the 
afs in this fable. L'E/lrange. 
And he that’s not in print they hold a noddi/, 
Becaufe themfelves are noddies flill in print. Davies. 
A bird; the Sterna ftolida.—A game at cards; perhaps 
cribbage.—Why ihould not the thrifty and right worfhip- 
ful game of pod and pair content them, or the witty in¬ 
vention of noddy? B. Jonfon's Mafques. 
NOD'DY-BOARD, f. A cribbage-board.—Room for 
frefli gamefters ; here is a chefs-board to my hoft’s noddy- 
board, Moors and Chriftians. Gayton on Don Quixote. 
NO'DE,/ [nodus, Lat.] A knot; a knob. A dwelling 
on the bone.—If nodes be the caufe of the pain, foment 
with fpirits of wine, wherein opium and faffron have been 
diflolved. Wife man. —Interfeftion. See the article Astro¬ 
nomy. —Allthefe variations are finilhed in nineteen years,, 
nearly agreeing with the courfe of the nodes; i. e. the 
points in the ecliptic where the ihoon crofleth that circle 
as die pafleth to her northern or fouthern latitude ; which 
nodes are called the head and tail of the dragon. Holder. 
NO'DEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of Sam- 
land, on the coaft of the Baltic : fourteen miles north of 
Pillau. 
NO'DERMALM, an idand of Sweden, on which (lands 
a part of the city of Stockholm. On it are a palace and 
opera-houfe, an ancient arfenal now converted into a 
theatre, three churches, an obfervatory, &c. 
NOD'HA, a town of Perda, in the province of Mecran : 
fixty-three miles fouth-weft of Kidge. 
NODHE'A, a town of Perda, in the province of Kerman: 
feventy-flve miles north-north-eaft of Sirgian. 
NO'DINGEN, an illand of Sweden, near the weft coaft, 
in the North Sea. Lat. 57.16. N. Ion. 11. 50. E. 
NO'DINGEN, a town of Sweden, in Weft Gothland 
twelve miles north of Gothenburg. 
NODO'SE, adj. [nodofus, Lat.] Knotty; full of knots. 
NODOS'ITY, / Complication; knot. — Thefe the 
midwife cutteth off, contriving them into a knot clofe 
unto the body of the infant; from whence enfueth that 
tortuodty, or complicated nodofity, we call the navel. 
Brown's Vnlg. Err. 
NO'DOUS, adj. Knotty; full of knots.—Thisisfeldom 
affefted with the gout; and, when that becometh nodons, 
men continue not long after. Brown. 
NOD'ULE, / [ nodalus, Lat.] A fmall lump.—Thofe 
minerals in the ftrata are either found in grains, or elfe 
they are amafled into balls, lumps, or nodules; which no¬ 
dules are either of an irregular flgure, or of a figure fome- 
wliat more regular. Woodward's Nat. Lift. 
NOD'ULED, adj. Having little knots or lumps: 
Diffeft with hammers flne 
The granite rock; the nodul'd flint calcine. Darwin. 
NO'DUS, or Node, f. in dialling, denotes a point or 
hole in the gnomon of a dial, by the fhadow or light 
whereof, either the hour of the day in dials without fur¬ 
niture, or the parallels of the fun’s declination, and his 
place in the ecliptic, See. in dials with furniture, are drown. 
Nodus is alfo ufed for a hole in the ceiling of a room, 
or in the window, for the making of a dial on the floor,, 
wall, or the like. 
NOD'Z, a town of France, in the department of the 
Doubs : eight miles eaft of Ornans. 
NO'E, a town of France, in the department of the Up¬ 
per Garonne, on the Garonne, feventeen miles fouth of 
Touloufe, and eight fouth of Muret. 
NO'EL, a man’s name. 
NO'EL, two iflands in the Indian Sea, near the coaft 
of Siam. Lat. 10. 33. to 10.47. N. Ion. 96. 30. to 96.48. E. 
NO'EL. See Novvel. 
NO'EL,/ [French.] A kind of air, dmilar to our 
Chriftmas carols, fung by the common people in France 
at the Nativity. The airs of Noels, fays M. Roufleau, 
ought to have a ruftic and paftoral character, agreeable to 
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