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N O O 
NOON, adj. Meridional: 
How oft the noon, how oft the midnight, bell, 
That iron tongue of death ! with folemn knell, 
On folly’s errands as we vainly roam. 
Knocks at our hearts, and finds our thoughts from home. 
Young. 
NOON-DA'Y, f. Mid-day—The dimnefs of our intel¬ 
lectual eyes, Ariftotle fitly compares to thofe of an owl at 
noon-day. Boyle. 
The bird of night did fit, 
Ev.’n at noon-day, upon the market-place, 
Hooting and (hrieking. ShaheJ'peare's Jul. Caf. 
NOO'N-DAY, adj. Meridional: 
The fcorching fun was mounted high. 
In all its luitre to the noon-day fky. Addifon's Ovid. 
NOO'N-SHUN. SeeNuNSHEON. 
NOO'N-STEAD, f. The ftation of the fun at noon : 
The free fun, 
That tow’rds the noon-Jlead half his courfe had run. 
Drayton. 
NOO'N-TIDE, f. Mid-day; time of noon: 
•Sorrow breaks feafons and repofing hours, 
Makes the night morning, and the noon- tide night. S/iakefj). 
NOO'N-TIDE, adj. Meridional.— Noon-tide repaft, or 
afternoon’s repofe. Milton. 
The noon-tide yellow we in vain require; 
’Tis black in ltorm, or red in lightning fire. Prior. 
NOONGO'LAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal : 
twelve miles eaft of Goragot. 
NOONGOT'TY, a town of Hindooftan, in the circar 
of Sohagepour : twenty-eight miles fouth-eaft of So¬ 
fa age pour. 
NOO'NING, f. Repofe at noon ; noon-reft; fleeping in 
the day-time. Huloet. — Repaft at noon.—If he be difpofed 
to take a whet, a nooning, an evening’s draught, or a 
bottle after midnight, lie goes to the club, and finds a 
knot of friends to his mind. Addifon's Spedl. No. 72.. 
NOONOYAN', a town on the weft coaft of the ifland 
of Mindanao. Lat. 7.40. N. Ion. 122.20. E. 
NOO'NY, a town of Bengal, in the circar of Hendooa: 
fifty-five miles weft of Moorlhedabad, and thirty-four 
north of Nagore. Lat. 28. N. Ion. 87. 7.E. 
NOOPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat: fifty- 
five miles eaft of Surat, and 142 weft of Burhanpour. 
Lat. 21. 11. N. Ion. 73. 50. E. 
NOORAL'DGEN, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: 
thirty-five miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Lahore. 
NOORBATORN'ZIA, a town of Thibet: five miles 
fouth of Painom Jeung. 
NOORGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
eight miles weft of Fyzabad. 
NOORGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
thirty miles eaft of Lucknow. 
NOORMEHA'L, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore : 
forty miles eaft-fouth-eaft of Sultanpour. 
NOORNAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bengal : 
twenty-two miles north of Comillah. 
NOORPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, and capital of a 
diftriCl, in the fubah of Lahore : feventy miles north-eaft 
of Lahore. Lat. 32. 12 N. Ion. 75. 5. E. 
NOORPOU'R, a town of Bengal: twenty miles fouth- 
weft of Dacca. 
NOORT POI'NT, the north cape of the port of Co- 
quimbo, in Chili. 
NOOSE, f. [probably from nodus, Lat. a knot.] A 
running knot, which the more it is drawn binds the clo- 
fer.—A rope and anoo/eare no jelling matters. Arbuthuot. 
They run their necks into a noofe. 
They’d break ’em after, to break loofe. Hudibras. 
To NOOSE, v.a. to tie in a noofe; to catch; to entrap. 
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■—The fin is woven with threads of different fizes, yet the 
leaft of them ftrong enough to noofe and entrap us. Gov. 
of the Tongue. 
NOO'TKA, or King George’s Island, an ifiand in 
Nootka Sound. Lat. 49. 35. N. Ion. 126. 40. W. 
NOO'TKA SOU'ND, firft called by captain Cook, on 
his difcovery of it in April 1778, King George’s Sound, 
a bay of the North Pacific Ocean, on the weft coaft of 
North America ; the entrance of which is fituated in the 
eaft corner of Hope-bay, in lat. 49. 33. N. Ion. 233. 12. E. 
This found was entered by Cook between two rocky points, 
lying eaft-fouth-eaft and weft-north-weft from each other, 
at the diftance of between three and four miles. Within 
thefe-points the Sound widens confiderably, and extends 
in, to the northward, four leagues at leaft, exclufively of 
the feveral branches towards its bottom, which were not 
afcertained. The middle of the Sound prefents a number 
of iilands of various fizes. Here, as well as clofe to fome 
parts of the fhore, the depth of water is from 47 to 90 fa¬ 
thoms, and even more. The harbours and anchoring- 
places, within its circuit, are numerous. The cove in 
which the Britilh fliips lay was on the eaft fide of the 
Sound, and on the eaft fide of the largeft of the iflands. 
Although covered from the fea, it is expofed to the fouth- 
eaft winds, which occafionally blow with deftruflive vio¬ 
lence. The land that borders on the fea-coaft is of a mid¬ 
dling height, and level; but within the Sound it riles 
every where into fteep hills, terminating in round or 
blunted tops, with fome (harp prominent ridges on their 
fides. Their height is moderate ; and even the higheft of 
them are entirely covered to their fummits with the 
thickeft woods, as well as every flat part towards the fea. 
Some few' fpots, which are bare, indicate the general 
rocky difpofition of thefe hills. The only foil upon them 
is a kind of compoft, produced from rotten moffes and 
trees, about two feet deep. The little coves have beaches 
compofed of fragments of rock, intermixed with pebbles; 
and they are furnilhed with large maffes of fallen wood, 
driven in by the tide, together with rills of frelh water, 
fufficient for the ufe of a (hip, apparently fupplied from 
the rains and fogs that hover about the tops of the hills. 
The water of thefe rills is perfectly clear, and eafily dif- 
folves foap. 
The climate, as far as our navigators had any experi¬ 
ence of it, is infinitely milder than that on the eaft coaft of 
America finder the lame parallel of latitude. The mer¬ 
cury in the thermometer, even in the night, was never 
lower than 42 0 , and in the day it very often rofe to 6 o°. 
Froft u'as not perceived in any part of the low ground, but 
vegetation had made a confiderable progrefs. The trees, 
which grow very vigoroully, and to a large fize, are chiefly 
the Canadian-pine, white cyprefs, the wild pine, and two 
or three other forts of pine lefs common. Of other vege¬ 
table productions there is little variety. Among the 
rocks, and at the verge of the w'oods, were found ftraw- 
berry-plants, fome ralpberry, currant, and goofeberrv, 
bullies, in a flourilhing ftate, with a few finall black-alder 
trees. There are likewife a fpecies of fow-thiftle, goofe- 
grafs, fome crow’s-foot with a fine crimfon flower, and 
two forts of anthericum, one with a large orange flower, 
and another with a blue one. In the fame fituations were 
found fome wild rofe-buflies juft budding, young leeks 
with triangular leaves, afmall fort of grafs, water-crefles, 
and andromeda in great abundance. Within the woods 
were moffes and ferns of different forts. As captain Cook 
and his companions lay in a cove on an ifland, they ob- 
ferved in the woods there only two or three racoons, mar¬ 
tins, and fquirrels ; and the account they give us of the 
quadrupeds is taken merely from the Ikins, which were 
brought by the natives for fale; and thefe were often in 
a very mutilated ftate, and fcarcely enabled them to de¬ 
termine to what animals they belonged. The moll com¬ 
mon were bears, deer, foxes,and wolves. The fea-animals 
feen off the coaft were whales, porpoifes, and feals. The 
fea-otter alfo abounds here; and the fur of this animal is 
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