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NONCOV'ERY, or Nancavery, (fee p. 62.) One of 
the Nicobar Iflands, fituated to the fouth-eaft of Camor- 
ra, the intermediate fea forming an excellent harbour, 
which might be made very ufeful. The ifland is of a tri¬ 
angular form, of no great extent, and almoll covered with 
wood. The inhabitants are few in number ; and the pro¬ 
duce, except timber and hogs, very insignificant. Lime- 
llone is abundant. Lat. 8. 5. N. Ion. 94. 2. E. 
NON'DAL, a town of Sweden, in the province of Fin¬ 
land: ten miles weft-north-weft of Abo. 
NON'DORF, a town of Auftria : fix miles north-weft of 
Sonneberg. 
NON'E, adj. [neone; nan ne ane, Sax.] Not one ; ufed 
both of perlbns and things.—Ye (hall flee when none pur- 
fueth you. Lev. xxvi. 17.—Another, which is none of the 
leaft advantages of hope is, its great efficacy in preferving 
v.s from fetting too high a value on prefent enjoyments. 
Addifon. 
That killing power is none of thine, 
I gave it to thy voice and eyes : 
Thy fweets, thy graces, all are mine ; 
Thou art my ftar, ffiin’ft in my (kies. Carew. 
Not any : no was in this fenfe ufed anciently before a con- 
fonant, and none before a vow'el.—Before the deluge, the 
air was calm; none of thofe tumultuary motions of va¬ 
pours, which the mountains and winds caufe in ours. 
Jim-net. —Not other.—This is none other but the houfe of 
God, and the gate of heaven. Gen. xxviii. 17. 
None of fometimes fignifies only emphatically nothing. 
—My people would not hearken to my voice: and Ifrael 
would none of me. Pf. Ixxxi. 11. 
None is always ufed when it relates to a fubftantive 
going before ; as, We (hail have no wine ; wine we lhall 
have none. 
None feems originally to have fignified, according to 
its derivation, not one, and therefore to have had no plu¬ 
ral ; but it is now ufed plurally : 
Nor think, though men were none, 
That heaven would want lpeftators, God want praife. 
Milton. 
NO'NE, a river of France, which runs into the Rio- 
torto at the town of None. 
NO'NE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Po, at the conflux of the rivers None and Riotorto : eight 
miles north-weft of Carmagnola, and (even (outh-fouth- 
weft of Turin. 
NO'NE, /! One of the (even canonical hours in the 
Romifti church. None, or the “ ninth hour,” is the lalt 
of the lefler hours that is faid before vefpers ; and anfwers 
to three o’clock in the afternoon. This (ingle office, and 
that for the dead, ends at nones ; which, father Rofweyd 
obferves, was anciently the hour for the breaking up of 
the fynaxis, or ufual meetings at church of the primitive 
Chriftians. The hour of none was alfo the ufual time for 
taking the repali on faft-days ; though fome would keep 
the faft till night. 
NO'NES, f. [from nonus, Lat.] Certain days in each 
month of the old Roman calendar.—The nones were fo 
called, becaufe they reckoned nine days from them to the 
ides. Rennet's Rom. Antiq. 
The nones were the fifth day of the months January, 
February, April, June, Auguft, September,November,and 
December; and the feventh of March, May, July,and O&o- 
ber: thefefour laft months having fix days before the nones, 
and the others only four; becaufe thefe alone, in the ancient 
conftitution of the year by Numa, had thirty-one days 
days apiece ; the reft have only twenty-nine, and Febru¬ 
ary thirty. But when Casfar reformed the year, and made 
other months contain thirty-one days, he did not like- 
wife allot them fix days of nones. See Calends and Ides. 
NON'E SO PRETTY. See Saxifraga. 
NON'ESUCH. See Lychnis and Trifolium. 
NON'ESUCH, a river of America, in the province of 
NON 
Maine, which runs into the fea in lat. 4.3. 30. N. Ion. 70. 
20. W. 
NON'ESUCH, one of the fmaller Bermuda iflands. 
NON'ESUCH. See Epsom, vol. vi. 
NON'ESUCH HAR'BOUR, a harbour on the eaft coaft 
of Antigua. Lat. 4.3,30. N. Ion. 61.23. W. 
NO'NIUS (Marcellus), a grammarian and peripa¬ 
tetic philolopher, who flourifhed about the fourth cen¬ 
tury, was a native of Tibur, now Tivoli. He is known 
by a work, entitled “ De Proprietate Sermonis,” which 
has gone through feveral editions, of which the beft 
is that printed at Paris in the year 1614.. “This au¬ 
thor,” fays the writer of the article in the Biographical 
Dictionary, “ has little claim to the praife of accurate 
learning or judgment; and the work itfelf is chiefly va¬ 
luable for the paffages which he cites from authors no 
where ell’eto be met with.” 
NO'NIUS (Peter), in Spanifh Nunez, a learned Portu- 
guefe, and one of the ableft mathematicians of the 16th 
century, was born at Alcacer. He was preceptor to 
Henry, king Emmanuel’s fon ; and taught the mathema¬ 
tics in the univerfity of Coimbra. He publifhed the fol¬ 
lowing works, by which he gained great reputation. 1. 
De Arte Navigandi. 2. Annotationes in Theorias Plane- 
tarum Purbachii; which are greatly efteemed. 3. A trea- 
tife De Crepufculis. 4. A treatife on Algebra. Itisob- 
ferved in Furetiere’s Dictionary, that Peter Nonius, in 
1530, firft invented the angles of 45 degrees madein every 
meridian, and that he called them rhumbs in his language, 
and calculated them by fpherical triangles. Nonius died 
in 1577, aged 80. 
NO'NIUS, f. The name which is often given to the 
common device for fubdividing the arcs of quadrants and 
other aftronomical inftruments, from the perfuafion that 
it was invented by Nonius or Nunez, of whom fome ac¬ 
count has been given in the preceding article. The gene¬ 
rality of aftronomers of the prefent age, transferring the 
honour of the invention from Nunez to Peter Vernier, a 
native of Franche Comte, have called this method of di- 
vifion by his name. See Vernier. Mr. Adams, howe¬ 
ver, in his Geometrical and Geographical Eflays, has 
lately (hown, that Clavius the Jefuit may dilpute the in¬ 
vention with them both. The truth feems to be, that 
Nunez (farted the idea, Clavius improved it, and Vernier 
carried it to its prefent lfate of perfection. The method 
of Nunez, defcribed in his treatile De Crepufculis, printed 
at Lifbon in 1542, confifts in defcribfng within the fame 
quadrant 45 concentric circles, dividing the outermoft 
into 90 equal parts, the next within into 89, the next into 
88, &c. till the innermolt was divided into 46 only. O11 
a quadrant thus divided the plumb-line or index muft 
crols one or other of the circles very near a point of divi- 
fion ; whence, by computation, the degrees and minutes of 
the arch might be ealily afcertained. This method is 
alfo defcribed by Nunez in his treatife De Arte atque Ra- 
tione Navigandi, where he would fain perfuade himfelf 
that it was not unknown to Ptolomy. But, as the degrees 
sre thus divided very unequally, and as it is very difficult 
to attain exaftnefs in the divifion, efpecrafly when the 
numbers into which the arches aie to be divided are in- 
compoiite (of which there are no lefs than nine), the me¬ 
thod of diagonals, firft publifhed by Thomas Digges, efq. 
in a treatife entitled Alas feu Scalas Mathematicae, printed 
at London in 1573, and faid to be invented by one Rich¬ 
ard Chenfeler, was lubftituted in its room. Nonius’s 
method was, however, improved at different times and by 
different perfons ; and it muft be acknowledged, that, if 
Vernier faw either the original or any of the improvements 
(and there can be littledoubt ofhis havingfeen them all), 
his merit is only that of having applied to an ufeful prac¬ 
tical purpofe the fpeculative invention of another perfon. 
Ency. Brit. Monthly Rev. vol. xi. 
NON'NETTE, a town of France, in the department 
of the Puy de Dome: four miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Ilfoire, and twelve north-north-weft of Brioude. 
3 NON'NIUS, 
