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—Milk, warm from the cow, is a great nourijher, and a good 
remedy in confumptions. Bacon's Nat. Ilift. —Bran and 
fwine’s-dung laid up together to rot, is a very great nou~ 
rijher and comforter to a fruit-tree. Bacon. 
Thefe bounties, which our nourijher hath caus’d 
The earth to yield. Milton's P. L. 
NOUR'ISHMENT, f. That which is given or received, 
in order to the fupport or increafe of growth or llrength; 
food; fiiftenance; nutriment.—■'When the nouri/hment 
grows unfit to be affimilated, or the central heat grows 
too feeble to affimilate it, the motion ends in confufion, 
putrefaction, and death. Newton's Optichs. —Nutrition ; 
fupport of ftrength.—The limbs are exhaufted by what is 
called an atrophy, and grow' lean and thin by a defeat of 
nouri/hment, occafioned by an inordinate lcorbutick or er- 
ratick heat. Blachmore. 
By temperance taught, 
In what thou eat’ll and drink’ll; leeking from thence 
Due nouri/hment, no gluttonous delight. Milton. 
Suftentation; fupply of things needful.—He inftru&eth 
them, that as in the one place they ufed to refrelh their 
bodies, fo they may in the other learn to leek the nourijh- 
■mcnt of their fouls. Hooker. 
NOUR'ITURE, f. [French. This was afterwards con¬ 
trasted to nurture.} Education ; inftitution.—Repaying 
thankfully the nouriture which themfelves received whiles 
they were young. Bryjket's DiJ'c. of Civ. Life, 1606.—This 
trade alfo, connected at the root, deriving its nouriture 
from the fame fources, mull have come within the fphere 
of the fame attraction. Pownall on Anliq. 1782. 
Thither the great magician Merlin came, 
As was his ufe, oftimes to vifit me; 
For he had charge my difcipline to frame, 
And tutors nouriture to overfee. Spenfer. 
NOUR'RY (Nicholas le), a learned French benediftine 
monk of the congregation of St. Maur, waas born at 
Dieppe in the year 1647. He took the vows at the age 
of eighteen ; and applied himfelf particularly to the ftudy 
of ecclefiaftical antiquities, in which he made a very fuc- 
cefsful progrefs. He united with father Garet, of the 
fame community, in editing the works of Cafliodorus ; 
and to his pen is the learned world indebted for the life 
of the author, together with the prefaces and tables 
•which accompany this edition. He now removed to 
Rouen, where he joined fathers John du Chefne and Ju¬ 
lian Ballaife, in preparing for the prefs a new edition of 
the works of St. Ambroie; which undertaking he after¬ 
wards continued at Paris, in connection with father James 
de Frifches. The firft volume of this work made its ap¬ 
pearance in 1686, and the lecond in 1691. Having com¬ 
pleted this talk, father le Nourry directed his attention to 
the authors contained in the Bibliotheca Patrum, pub- 
lithed at Lyons in 1677, in 27 vols. folio, by Marguerin 
de la Bigne. The refult of his application was a w’ork, 
entitled “ Apparatus ad Bibliothecam Patrum,” in 2 
vols. 8vo. which were afterwards printed in a folio volume 
at Paris, in 1703, and ended with St. Clement of Alex¬ 
andria. In 1715, he gave a lecond volume in folio, treat¬ 
ing of the Latin authors of the third century, and ending 
with LaClantius. This work confilts of a variety of dif- 
lertations, abounding in curious and learned refearches 
relative to the lives, writings, and opinions, of the fathers ; 
in which he has thrown much light on numerous difficult 
paffages in their refpeCtive works. It was his with to 
have purfued the fame plan with refpeCt to the reft of the 
fathers, and even to havegpven a new edition of the whole 
-Bibliotheca; but his advanced age, and other circum- 
itances, prevented him from profecuting fuch laborious 
undertakings. In the year 1710, he publilhed the trea- 
tile “ De Mortibus Perlecutorum,” in 8vo. with a diffier- 
tation, in which he endeavours to prove, that it is not the 
production of Ladtantius, but ought to be attributed to 
JLucius Ccccilius. Though his arguments in fupport of 
NOW 
his hypothefis were far from being fatisfadlory to the 
learned, yet they awarded due praife to the editor for his 
felicity in elucidating doubtful, difficult, and obfcure, 
palfages, and his neat explanation of the fentiments of the 
author. Father Nourry died at Paris in 1724, at the age 
of feventy-feven, equally efteemed for his piety and ami¬ 
able manners, as he was refpedted for his knowledge and 
erudition. Dupin lays of him, that <! his ftyle is limple, 
pure, and ealy. He is exact in his citations, modeft in his 
criticilms, and judicious in his conjedtures.” Dupin anil 
Moreri. 
To NOUR'SLE, v. a. [nourir, Fr. See alfo To Nousle.] 
To nurfe-up ; to breed; to educate: 
Whether ye lift him traine in chivalry, 
Or nourjle up in lore of learn’d philofophy. Spenjer. 
NOUR SLING, f. The creature nurfed, nurfiing.—A 
little nourflinp- of the humid air. Spenjer. 
NOUS SHE'HR, a town of Afiafic Turkey, in Cara- 
mania ; anciently called Nyffa. It is forty miles foutli- 
eaft of Kir-ffiehr. 
NOU'SIS, a town of Sweden, in the government c.f 
Abo : ten miles north-north-weft of Biorneborg. 
NOU'SKERY, a town of Hindooftan, in Lahore: fifty- 
five miles fouth-fouth-weft of Lahore. 
To NOU'SLE, v. a. [the fame with nuzzle; and both, 
in their original import, corrupted from nurfle .] To nurfe- 
up.—Bald friars and knavifh lhavelings fought to nouj'el 
the common people in ignorance, left, being once ac¬ 
quainted with the truth of things, they would in time 
fmelloutthe untruth of their packed pelt and malfe-penny 
religion. E. K. on Spenfer's Shep. Cal. 
Mothers, who, to novfe up their babes, 
Thought nought too curious. Shakefpeare's Pericles. 
NOU'TRA, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
Cracow, on the frontiers of Hungary. Near it are fome 
gold-mines: thirty miles fouth of Cracow. 
NOUTOOKOOAGAN', a river of Canada, which runs 
into St. John’s Lake in lat. 48. 26. N. Ion. 72. 38. W. 
NOUVEL'LE, a river of Canada, which runs into 
Chaleur Bay. 
NOUVELLE EGLI'SE, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Straits of Calais: four miles ealt of Calais. 
NOU'VION, a town of France, in the department of 
Aifne : thirteen miles north-weft of Vervins. 
NOU'VION, a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme, and chief place of a canton, in the di!lri6t of 
Abbeville. The place contains 623, and the canton 9856, 
inhabitants. 
NO'VUM, f. [probably corrupted from novem, Lat. fo 
called becaule it required nine to play at it. There are 
nine perfons on the ftage when the following example is 
fpoken.] A game at dice : 
Change your game for dice ; 
We are a full number for novum. Green's Tu quoque. 
NO'VUS PO'RTUS, in ancient geography, a port on 
the fouthern coaft of the Ifle of Albion, between the 
mouth of the river Trifan ton and the promontory Cantrum, 
according to Ptolemy. 
NOW, a river of England, which runs into the Der¬ 
went, about nine miles north of Bakewell, in the county 
of Derbyf 
NOW, adv. [nu,Sax.] At this time; at the time prefent. 
—Thy fervants’ trade hath been about cattle, from our 
youth even until now. Gen. xlvi. 34.—Refer all the actions 
of this fiiort and dying life to that ftate which will lhortly 
begin, but never have an end ; and this will approve it- 
felf to be wifdom at lall, whatever the world judge of it 
now. Ti/lotfon.—Now that languages abound with words 
Handing for fuch combinations, an ufual way of getting 
thefe complex ideas, is by the explication of thofe terms 
that Hand for them. Locke .—A patient of mine is now 
living, in an advanced age, that thirty years ago did, at 
feveral times, call up from the kings a large quantity of 
blood. 
