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—The expofing himfelf notorioujly, did fometiraes change 
the fortune of the day. Clarendon. —Should the genius of 
a nation be more fixed in government, than in morals, 
learning, and complexion, which do all notorioujly vary 
in every age. Swift. 
NOTO'RIOUSNESS, J. Public fame; notoriety.—His 
aftions are ltrong encounters, and for their notoriovfnefs 
always upon record. Overbury’s Characl. 
NOTOX'US, f. in entomology, a genus of infefts of the 
>order coleoptera. .Generic charafters—Antennas filiform; 
feelers four, hatchet-fhaped ; jaw one-toothed; the tho¬ 
rax a little narrowed behind. Of this genus there are 
thirteen fpecies. 
1. Notoxus porcatus : black, with raifed longitudinal 
lines on the fhells. It is found in Van Diemen’s Land. 
2. Notoxus violaceus : pubefcent, black, with a violet 
glofs; fhells fmooth, with three yellow dots. Inhabits 
New Zealand. 
3. Notoxus bifafciatus : thorax rounded; body ferru¬ 
ginous; head black; fhells with a black dot, band, and 
tip. This is a fmall cylindrical-fhaped infeft; and inha¬ 
bits Lapland. 
4. Notoxus dubius : thorax brown ; {hell ferruginous, 
with a black line at the bafe, band in the middle, and dot 
at the tip. Found in many parts of Germany. 
5. Notoxus mollis: downy; fliells black, with three 
pale bands. Inhabits many parts of Europe, as well as 
our own country. 
6. Notoxus Indicus: head and thorax dufky; {hells 
pale, flriate, punftured. Inhabits India. 
7. Notoxus Chinenfis: downy, brown ; fhells punctured, 
pale, with unequal black bands. Inhabits China, and is 
defcribed particularly by Fabricius. 
8. Notoxus monoceros : thorax projecting like a horn 
over the head, which is red, as are the antennae; the an¬ 
tennas are filiform all along, not clubbed or enlarged at the 
end. The fhells are yellow, with a broad black band at 
the hinder part, and a large black fpot near the neck. 
This fpecies is reprefented at fig. 24. It is an Englifh in- 
left ; defcribed by Mr. Donovan as the Meloe monoceros; 
and is found on umbelliferous plants. 
9. Notoxus cornutus ; thorax projefting like a horn 
over the head ; fhells with three black bands'. Inhabits 
Italy. 
10. Notoxus bipunftatus : thorax ferruginous; fliell 
tefiaceous, with a black dot. It is fmall; and an inha¬ 
bitant of Germany. 
11. Notoxus antherinus : black; fliells with two ferru¬ 
ginous bands. It inhabits this and other countries in 
Europe ; is found on flowers, and is very nimble in its 
motions. 
12. Notoxus floralis : black; thorax ferruginous. Like 
the preceding; it inhabits European countries. 
13. Notoxus minutus : black, polifhed ; antennas and 
legs palifh. It is an European infeft, and is alfo fmall. 
NOTOZEPHY'RUS,/! [from not us, and zephyr us.] The 
fouth-weft wind. 
NOTRE DA'ME, Our Lady, a term frequently ufed 
for the Holy Virgin. Hence, feafts of Notre Dame; the 
office of Notre Dame ; congregations, nunneries, and 
orders, Notre Dame. 
NOTRE DAME BA'Y, a bay on the eaft coaft of New¬ 
foundland. Lat. 49. 55. N. Ion. 55. 40. W. 
NOTRE DAME de CLE'RY, a town of France, in 
the department of the Loiret: fix miles north-well of 
Beaugency, and nine fouth-weft of Orleans. 
NOTRE DAME de COUDUN', a town of France, in 
the department of the Oife : three miles north of Com- 
piegne. 
NOTRE DAME de COURSON', a town of France, 
in the department of the Calvados : eight miles fouth of 
Lifieux, and eighteen eaft-north-eaft of Falaife. 
NOTRE DAME de DELIVERAN'CE, a town of 
France, in the department of the Calvados: feven miles 
north of Caen, and twelve eaft of Bayeux. 
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NOTRE DAME de FRENA'Y, a town of France, 
in the department of the Calvados: ten miles eaft-north- 
eaft of Falaife, and thirteen fouth-fouth-weft of Lifieux. 
NOTRE DAME de LIESS'E. See Liesse, vol. xii. 
NOTRE DAME de NE'VES, a town of Bralil, in the 
jurifdiclion of Pernambuco. 
NOTRE DAME de PO'RT, a town of France, in 
the department of the Lot and Garonne : ten miles weft 
of Agen. 
NOTRE DAME de ROCHE SERVIE'RE, a town 
of France, in the department of the Vendee: feven miles 
w’ell oi Montaigu, and fifteen north of La Roche fur 
Yonne. 
NOT'SCHOW, a town of the duchy of Holftein : fix 
miles fouth of Segeborg, and two north-weft of Oldeflohe. 
TJOTT, odj. [hnot:, Sax.] 1 Smooth ; fnorn. Nott fheep, 
i. e. fheep without horns : Effex. That field is nott, i. e. 
well-tilled: Berkfhire. GroJ'e. Hence the adjedlives, now 
obfolete, nott-heuded, nott-pated, having the hair cut fhort; 
from the “ head being like a nut,” according to Mr. Tyr- 
whitt and others. But the Saxon word knot, is fmooth, 
cropped, fhorn.—A notte head hackle he, with a broune 
village. Chaucer's C. T. Prol. 
To NOTT, v. a. To (hear. Dr. Johnfon cites this verb 
on the authority of Ainfworth. It is in the diftionary of 
Barret in 1580.—He caufed from thenceforth his beard to 
be nottcd, and no more fhaven. Stowe's Ann. under the Year 
1535 - 
NOTT'-WHEAT, j '.—Of wheat there are two forts: 
French, which is bearded, and requireth the beft foil; 
and not-wheat, fo termed becaufe it is unbearded, being 
contented with a meaner earth. Carew. 
NOT'TAWAY, a county of Virginia, with a popula¬ 
tion of 3418 whites, and 5983 blacks. 
NOT'TAWAY, one of the ftreams which forms the 
river Chowan, in North Carolina. It rifes in Virginia. 
NOT'TE, a river of Brandenburg, which runs into the 
Havel at Potzdam. 
NOT'TEBURG. See Schlusselburg. 
NOT'TELEN, a town of Germany, in the bifhopric of 
Munfter: feven miles weft of Munfter. 
NOT'TINGHAM, a borough and market-town, and a 
county of itfelf, is iituated on the river Leen, near its con- 
fluence with the Trent, in the county of Nottingham. 
It is diftant 124 miles north-north-weft from London ; 
and contains three parifhes, St. Mary’s, St. Nicholas’s, and 
St. Peter’s, befides an extra-parochial diftrift attached to 
the caftle. This place, according to the parliamentary re¬ 
turns of 1811, comprifes 6S42 houfes, and a population 
of 34,253 perions, of whom 6815 families are engaged in 
trade and manufaftures. In 1801, the inhabitants were 
only ellimated at 28,861. 
Nottingham is faid to be derived from the Saxon word 
Snottengaham, which fignifies “ The Houle of Caverns;” 
from the caves and apartments anciently dug in the rocks 
upon which the town (lands. Thefe, being foft, eaiily 
yield to the lpade and pickaxe, whence the townfmen 
have excellent cellars for the vaft quantities of malt-li¬ 
quors made here, and fent, as well as their malt, to moft 
parts of England. 
The healthful, advantageous, and delightful, fituation 
of Nottingham, defervedly gives it the pre-eminence above 
moll inland towns in England; and it lies nearly equi- 
diftant from Berwick-upon-Tweed northward, and Soutii- 
ampton fouthward. It is' Iituated in the fouth-weft corner 
of that ancient and famous foreft called Sherwood, built 
upon a foft rock, the furface of which is a Tandy foil. On 
the eaft, weft, and north, Tides, it is encompafled with 
divers ridges of hills of an eafy afcent, of which the re- 
moteft are the higheft; thefe hills proteft it from the in¬ 
clemency of the feafons, whilft, on the fouth fide, it re¬ 
ceives the enlivening beams of a meridian fun, and is at 
the fame time fanned by the refrefning breezes of afiouth- 
erly wind. Here, from a high perpendicular rock, it not 
only overlooks a large plain of rich meadows of its own. 
