MOM 
direfted his whole attention to theftudyof the Scriptures: 
he fpared neither pains nor expenfe in collecting fuch 
works as might aflift him in becoming acquainted with 
them; and his library is faid to have contained a greater 
number of editions of the Bible, of tranflations and of 
commentaries on the Scriptures, than had ever before be¬ 
longed to an individual. This valuable and curious col¬ 
lection, of which a catalogue was printed, he left at his 
death to be difpofed of for the benefit of the poor of his 
parifh. That event took place in the year 1710. He was 
the author of, 1. A Letter from N. Indes, a Divine of 
Salamanca, propofing a Method for correcting the Greek 
Septuagint Verfion, with an Illuftration of fome difficult 
PafTages ; 1708, umo. 2. A Letter to M. 1 ’Abbe B. re¬ 
lative to the new Edition of the Septuagint by John-Erneft 
Grabe; inferted in the Supplement du Journal des S$avans 
for the month of December 1710. 3. Two Diflertations ; 
one on the French Bibles to the Year 1341, and the other, 
illuftxative of a literary Phaenomenon. 4. A Critical 
Letter on an anonymous Differtation, and the Letters of 
M. Richard Simon, refpefting the Antiquities of the 
Chaldeans and Egyptians ; 1710, nmo. Gen. Biog. 
NOL'PE (Peter), a Dutch painter and engraver, was 
born at the Hague in 1601. The circumftances of his 
life are rather obfcure ; but his works prove him to have 
been a man of talent. He is fpoken of as a painter ; but 
apparently his engravings are far more numerous than his 
piClures. He worked with the point and graver, and ge¬ 
nerally united them ; but fome of his plates are executed 
with the graver only, which inftrument he handled with 
much more facility than tafte. He engraved portrait, hif- 
tory, and landfcape ; but excelled moft in the latter, for 
he was but imperfectly mailer of the human form, whereas 
his landfcapes poflefs a certain air of boldnefsand freedom, 
which manifeft a praCtiled hand, though not a mind of 
profound information. 
NOL'SOE, one of the fmaller Faroer Iflands: fix miles 
fouth of Ofteroe. Lat. 65. 10. N. Ion. 6. 38. W. 
NOLT. [Though this word occurs in Fairfax, it feems 
likely to be an error of the prefs for N’ote, the contrac¬ 
tion of lie wote. ] Know not.—But lo ! (from whence I 
nolt) a falcon came. Fairfax. —See N’ote. 
NOM de JE'SUS, a town of the ifland of Zebu, one of 
the Philippine Iflands ; the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of 
Manilla. 
NO'MA, /. [from ueya, Gr. to eat away.] In furgery, 
a phagedenic ulcer, or a fpecies of herpes. 
NOM'AD, or Nomad'ic, aelj. [nomade, Fr. from the 
Gr. ny.u, to feed.] Rude; lavage; having no fixed abode, 
and fhifting it for the convenience of pafturage.—We are 
glad to find thefe laftand moft authentick oblervations on 
this nomad tribe, thus brought together into one view. 
Brit. Crit. 
NOM'ADES, a name given to feveral nations, or peo¬ 
ple, whole whole occupation was to feed and tend their 
Hocks; and who had no fixed place of abode, but were 
conllantly fliifting according to the conveniences of paf- 
turage. 
The moft celebrated among the Nomades were thofe of 
Africa, who inhabited between Africa, properly fo called, 
to the eaft, and Mauritania to the weft. They are alfo 
called Numidce, or Numidians. Salluft fays, they were a co¬ 
lony of Perfians, brought into Africa with Hercules. The 
Nomades of Alia inhabited the coafts of the Cafpian Sea. 
TheNomades of Arabia, according to Pliny, (l.vi. c. 28.) 
occupied a territory eaft of the deferts of Palmyra, and ex¬ 
tended from the fouthern coaft as far as the Afphaltite 
Lake ; next to them were the Attali, who were accuf- 
tomed to make incurfions on the country of the Chal- 
dseans, in the vicinity of the Euphrates. The Arabian 
Nomades, and the Attali, were bounded fouthward by 
the Scenites, who, according to Euftathius, (in Dionyf. 
p. 121.) inhabited the diftriCt between Ccelefyria and the 
Euphrates. Strabo ( 1 . xvi.) places thefe people in the 
fame fituation with Pliny. 
NOM 123 
The Nomades of Scythia were the inhabitants of Little 
Tartary; who (fill retain the ancient manner of living. 
The Scythian Nomades, according to Pliny, ( 1 . iv. c. 12.) 
inhabited the country on the left fide of the Cafpian Sea ; 
and they were feparated from the Georgii by the river 
Panticapes. Strabo fays, that they lived in waggons in- 
ftead of houfes. 
NOMA'ES, or Noma'o, a town of Portugal, in the 
province of Beira : fix miles fouth-eaft of St. Joao de 
Pefqueira, and twelve fouth-weft of Torre de Moncorvo. 
NOM'ANCY,/ [compounded of nomen, Lat. name, 
and i^octTetet, Gr. divination.] The art of divining the 
fates of perfons by means of the letters that form their 
names.— Nomancy, or, as it fl’.ould rather be called, notni- 
nomancy, or onomatomancy, feems to be nothing elfe but 
the cabbaliftic gematria. Chambers. 
NOM'ARCH, or Nomar'cha,/ in antiquity, the go¬ 
vernor or commander of a nome.—Egypt was anciently 
divided into feveral regions, or quarters, called nomes 7 
and the officer, who had the adminiftration of each nome 
from the king, was called nomarcha, from the Gr. yoyac, 
a divifion, and a.px'h command. Chambers. 
NOM'BLES,y. The entrails of a deer. See Numbles. 
NOM'BRE de DI'OS, a town of South America, in 
the province of Darien, at the bottom of a bay to which 
it gives name. This town was deftroyed in its infancy by 
the Indians of Darien. Some years after, however, it was 
rebuilt; and the inhabitants maintained their ground till 
the year 1584, when orders arrived from Philip II. for 
their removing to Porto Bello, as being much better 
fituated for the commerce of that country. It is thirty 
miles eaft of Porto Bello. Lat. 9.36. N. Ion. 79. 35. W. 
NOMBRE de DI'OS, a town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of Zacatecas. TheSpanifh general who fubdued it 
having granted the property of fome of the filver-mines 
to the natives, it drew fo many people hither, that it foon 
became the moft populous town in the province. It is 
eighty-five miles north-w'eft of Zacatecas. Lat. 24. 6. N. 
Ion. 104. 32. W. 
NOMBRE de DI'OS, a town of Mexico, in the pro¬ 
vince of New Bifcay : 120 miles north of Parral. 
NOMBRE de DI'OS, or Tameopal'la, a river of 
Peru, which runs into the Pacific Ocean in lat. 17. 10. S. 
NOMBRE de JE'SUS, a town of South America, in 
the province of Quito: thirty-five miles north-weft of St. 
Jofef de Huates. 
NOMBRE de MARI'A, a town of South America, 
in the province of Quito: eight miles north-eaft of St. 
Jofef de Huates. 
NOM'BRIL, f. [Fr. the navel.] In heraldry, the centre 
of an efcutcheon, or the point next below the fefs-pointa 
—Suppofing the efcutcheon divided into two equal parts 
below the fefs ; the firlt of thefe divifions is the nombril, 
and the lower the bafe. Chambers. 
NOM'BRIL, adj. Belonging to that divifion of an ef¬ 
cutcheon next below the fefs. 
NO'ME,ji [voyo;, Gr. from viy.u, to feed, and todiftri- 
bute.] Province ; traCl of country; an Egyptian govern¬ 
ment, or divifion.—He told his brethren, that they and 
his aged father Ihould dwell near him ; and he placed 
them with Pharaoh’s own fliepherds in the Heliopolitan 
nome, which bordered on the Red Sea, and of which the 
metropolis was On, or Heliopolis. This country, being 
fituated fome leagues diftant from the banks of the Nile, 
was not lubjeCt to the annual inundations of that river, 
and therefore was a more proper place of refidence for 
fliepherds and the pafturage of flocks, than any other oF 
the Egyptian nomes. Maurice's Hift. of Hindofan. 
The origin of the nomes, according to Diodorus Siculus, 
was this : the inhabitants being refractory, and much in¬ 
clined to infurreCtions, in order to prevent thefe, the 
kings divided the whole country into different provinces, 
or nomes, and eftablifhed the worfliip of fome particular 
animal in each of them, prohibiting, at the fame time, 
fuch animal to be eaten within the bounds where it was 
worfhipped.. 
