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was nothing, then either nothing made fomething, or fome¬ 
thing made itfelf; and fo was, and afted, before it was. 
But, if there never could be nothing, then there is, and 
was, a Being of neceffity, without any beginning. Grew. 
—Non-exiftence : ' 
Mighty ftates charafterlefs are grated 
To dufty nothing. Shahefpeare's Trail, and Crefj. 
Not any thing ; no particular thing.—Philofophy wholly 
fpeculative, is barren,and produces nothing but vain ideas. 
Dry den's Don Sebaftian. 
Yet had his afpeft nothing of fevere, 
But fitch a face as promis’d him lincere. Dryden. 
No other thing.-— Nothing but a Heady refolution brought 
to praftice, God’s grace ufed, his commandments obeyed, 
and his pardon begged ; nothing but this will intitle you 
to God’s acceptance. Wake's Prep, for Death. —Words 
are made to declare fomething; where they are, by thofe 
who pretend to inftruft, otherwife ufed, they conceal in¬ 
deed fomething ; but that which they conceal is nothing 
but the ignorance, error, or fophiltry, of the talker; for 
there is, in truth, nothing elle under them. Locke. —No 
quantity or degree.—The report which the troops of horfe 
make would add nothing of courage to their fellows. 
Clarendon. —No importance ; noufe; no value.—Behold, 
ye are of nothing, and your work of naught. Ifaiah .— No 
poffeffion or fortune.—A moft homely (liepherd ; a man 
that from very nothing is grown into an unfpeakable eftate. 
Shakcfpeare's Wint. Tale .— No difficulty; no trouble.—We 
are induftrious to prelerve our bodies from flavery, but 
we make nothing of fuffering our fouls to be Haves to our 
lulls. Ray on the Creation. — A thing of no proportion. — 
The charge of making the ground, and otherwife, is great, 
but nothing to the profit. Bacon's Nat. IHJi .— Trifle.; fome¬ 
thing of no confideration or importance.—That period 
includes more than a hundred fentences that might be 
writ to exprefs multiplication of nothings, and all the fa¬ 
tiguing perpetual bufinefs of having no bufinefs to do. 
Pope's Letters. 1 
Narciflus is the glory of his race ; 
For who does nothing with a better grace ? Young. 
Tis nothing, fays the fool; but fays the friend. 
This nothing, fir, will bring you to your end. 
Do I not fee your droply-belly fwell ? Dryden. 
I’d rather have one fcratch my head i’ th’ fun. 
When the alarum were ftruck, than idly fit 
To hear my nothings monfter’d. v Shahefpeare. 
Nothing has a kind of adverbial fignification. In no 
degree; not at all.—Who will make me a liar, and make 
my fpeech nothing worth ? Job, xxiv. 25.—Auria, nothing 
difmayed with the greatnefs of the Turk’s fleet, ftill kept 
on his courfe. Knolles's Hiji. 
NOTH'INGNESS, f. Nihility; non-exiftence.—Being 
demoliflied as to themfelves, and turned into a chaos or 
dark nothingnefs. More's Conj. Cabb. 
His art did exprefs 
A quinteffence even from nothingnefs. 
From dull privations, and lean emptinefs. Donne. 
Nothing; thing of no value.—Other ftars may have their 
feveral virtues and effefts; but their marvellous remote- 
nefs, and my undifcernible nothingnefs, may feem to forbid 
any certain intelligence of their diftinft workings upon 
me. lip. Hull's Seleffi Thoughts. 
I, that am 
A nothingnefs in deed and name, 
Did fcorn to hurt his forfeit carcafs. Hudibras. 
NO rHOLJF'NA, f A genus of ferns propofed by Mr. 
Brown in his Prodr. Nov. Holl. vol. i. named, as it is 
luppofed, from the Greek ro 0 o;, fpurious, audios, wool; 
becaufe there is no involucrum, but in its Head the briftly, 
fcaly, or woolly, covering of the frond, affords a fort of 
fpurious proteftion to the fruftification. This genus is 
formed, by the learned writer above-mentioned, out of 
fome fpecies of Acroftichuin, Pteris, or Swartz’s Chei- 
lanthes. See Acrostichum marantae, Pteris tricho- 
matioides, See. 
NO'THRIA, /! in botany. See Frankenia. 
NO'THUS, f. [Lat. from *o 9 o,-, Gr.] A baftard, or a 
perfon of fpurious birth. Hence itis applied figuratively, 
by phyficians, &c. to fuch difeafes, as though, in refpeft 
of a fimilitude of fymptoms, &c. they have the fame de¬ 
nomination as fome others, yet are of a different origin, 
feat, or the like, from the lame. 
Nothus is fometimes alfo ufed for the back part of the 
cheft, or thorax ; and nothce coftee for the falfe ribs. 
NO'THUS (Darius), a Perfian prince, and grandfather 
to Darius Codomannus. He is worthy of being men¬ 
tioned only as he was progenitor to that fovereign whole 
overthrow conferred upon Alexander the title of Great. 
NO'TICE, f. [old Fr. from notitia, Lat.] Remark; 
heed; obfervation ; regard.—This is done with little no¬ 
tice: very quick the actions of the mind are performed. 
Locke. —How ready is envy to mingle with the notices 
which we take of other perfons. Watts. —Information ; 
intelligence given or received.—I have given him notice, 
that the duke of Cornwall and his duchefs will be here. 
Shahefpeare's K. Lear. 
Notice, in law, the making fomething known, that a 
man was or might be ignorant of before. Notice is re¬ 
quired to be given, in many cafes, by law, to juftify pro¬ 
ceedings where any thing is to be done or demanded, &c. 
But none is bound by law to give notice to another per¬ 
fon of that which fuch other may otherwife inform him- 
felf, except in cafes where notice is direfted by adt of par¬ 
liament. Generally fpeaking, where it is required by law 
that notice ffiall be given to a party before he lhall be af¬ 
fected by any aft, leaving it at his dwelling-houfe is fuffi- 
cient. But it is otherwife in the cafe of procefs to bring 
a party into contempt; there, perfonal notice is necellary. 
To NO'TICE, v. a. [from the fubft. Mr. Mafon has 
pretended, that this is a word imported into Englifh con- 
verfation from Ireland. So far from its being fuch an in¬ 
novation, it is,as Mr. Malone has obferved, of great age in 
our language. Todd.] To note; to need ; to obferve ; to 
regard.—As fome do perceive, yea, and like it well, they 
ihould be fo noticed. T. Howard in Harrington's Nttga Ant. 
about i 6 o 3 .'—Thele pieces contain feveral curious circum- 
ftances cf Milton’s early life, fituations, friendfliips, and 
conneftions ; which are'often fo tranfiently or implicitly 
noticed, as to need examination and enlargement. Warton's 
Pref. to Milton's Sm. Poems. —It is impoffible not to notice 
a ft range comment of Mr. Lindley’s. Bp. Hume's Lett, to 
Dr. Prieftlcy. 
NOTIFIC A'TION, f. [from to notify.] Aft of making- 
known ; reprefentation by marks or fymbols.—Four or 
five torches elevated or depreffed out of their order, either 
in breadth or longways, may, by agreement, give great 
variety of notifications. Holder on Speech. 
To NOTIFY, v. a. [notifier, Fr. notijico, Lat.] To de¬ 
clare ; to make known ; to publiffi.—There are other kind 
of laws, which notify the will of God. Hooker. —This folar 
month is by civil lanftion notified, in authentic calendars, 
the chief meafure of the year: a kind of ftandard by which 
we meafure time. Holder. 
NOTION,/! [Fr. from notio, Lat.] Thought; repre¬ 
fentation of any thing formed by the mind ; idea ; ima°-e ; 
conception.—What hath been generally agreed on. Icon- 
tent myfelf to aflume under the notion of principles, in 
order to what I have farther to write. Newton's Optichs. — 
There is nothing made a more common fubjeft of dif- 
courle than nature and its laws ; and yet few agree in 
their notions about thefe words. Cheyne's Phil. Prin. — 
That notion of hunger, cold, found, colour, ci: night, wilh, 
or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hun¬ 
ger, cold, found, wiffi, &c. Watts's Logick. —Sentiment ; 
opinion.—It would be incredible to a man who has never 
been 
