NOW 
blood: Blachmore. —A little while ago; almoft at the pre- 
fent time : 
They, that but now for honour and for plate 
Made the tea blulh with blood, relign their hate. Waller. 
But now the blood of tw'enty thoufand men 
Bid triumph in my face, and they are fled. Shaliefpeare. 
At one time ; at another time.— Now high, now low, now 
mailer up, now mifs. Pope.- —It is fometimes a particle of 
connexion, like the French or, and Latin autem; as, If 
this be true, he is guilty ; now this is true, therefore he 
is guilty.—The only motives that can be imagined of obe¬ 
dience to laws, are either the value and certainty of re¬ 
wards, or an apprehenflon of juilice and feverity. Now 
neither of thefe, exclulive of the other, is the true prin¬ 
ciple of our obedience to God. Rogers.—Now whatfoever 
he did or fullered, the end thereof was to open the doors 
of the kingdom of heaven, which our iniquities had flint 
up. llooher. —Then cried they all again, faying, Not this 
man, but Barabbas; note Barabbas was a robber. St.John. 
•—Helim bethought himfelf, that the firft day of the full 
moon of the month Tizpa, was near at hand. Now it is 
a received tradition among the Perlians, that the fouls of 
t he royal family, wdio are in a ftate of blifs, do, on the firft 
full moon after their deceafe, pal’s through the eaftern gate 
of the black palace. AddiJ'on's Guardian. 
The praile of doing well 
Is to the ear as ointment to the line'll. 
Now if fome flies, perchance, however fmall. 
Into the alabaiter urn fliould fall, 
The odours die. Prior. 
After this; fince things are fo, in familiar fpeech.—How 
ilitill any man diftinguifh now betwixt a parafite and a man 
of honour, where hypocrify and intereft look fo like duty 
and affe&ion t L'Eftrange. 
Now and then; at onetime and another uncertainly. 
This word means, with regard to time, what is meant by 
here and there with relpeft to place.—A moll effe&ual ar¬ 
gument againfl fpontaneous generation is, that there is no 
new f’pecies produced, w'hich would, now and then happen, 
were there any fuch thing. Bay. —He who refolves to walk 
by the gofpel rule of forbearing all revenge, will have op¬ 
portunities every now and then to exercife his forgiving 
temper. Attcrbury. —They now and then appear in the of¬ 
fices of religion, and avoid fome fcandalous enormities. 
Rogers. —Applied to places confidered as they rife to no¬ 
tice and fucceflion.—A mead here, there a heath, and now 
and then a wood. Drayton. 
NOW, /! Prefent moment. A poetical vfe: 
Nothing is there to come, and nothing pail; 
But an eternal nou- does ever laft. Cowley. 
She vanilh’d, we can fcarcely fay flie dy’d, 
For but a now did heaven and earth divide : 
This moment perfeft health, the next was death. Drydcn. 
Not lefs ev’n in this defpicable now 
Than when my name fill’d Africk with affrights. Dryden. 
NOW'-A-DAYS, ado. [This word, though common, 
and tiled by the befl writers, is perhaps barbarous.] In 
the prefent age.—Reafon and love keep little company to¬ 
gether now-a-days. Shaluj'peare's Midf. Night's Dream .— 
It was a veltal and a virgin fire, and differed as much from 
that wdiich paffes by this name now-a-days as the vital heat 
from the burning of a fever. South. 
What men cf fpirit now-a-days 
Come to give fober judgment of new plays. Garrick. 
NOW'A GROD'LA, a towm of Poland, in the pala¬ 
tinate of Braclaw: thirty-fix miles north of Braclaw. 
NOWA'DA, a town of Bengal : twenty-two miles 
fouth of Ghidore.—-Another town of Bengal: fix miles 
fiouth of Curruckdeah.—Another, eighteen miles fouth 
of Burdwan.—Another, feventeen miles north ofToree. 
—Another, fifteen miles fouth-eaft of Ramgur. 
NOW 27.9 
NOWA'DA, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: twenty 
miles fouth of Bahar. Lat. 24. 53. N. Ion. 85.4.3. E. 
NOWADA'H, a town of Bengal : fifty-four miles 
north-eall of Ramgur. 
NOWADA'H, a town of Hindooflan, in Bahar: thirty 
miles eaft of Gavah.—A town of Hindooflan, in Dooab : 
thirty miles fouth of Canoge. 
NOWADE'E, a town of Bengal : three miles fouth of 
Koonda.— A town of Bengal : forty-fix miles north- 
north-wefl of Ramgur. 
NOW'ADY, a town of Bengal : fixteen miles weft of 
Doefa. Lat. 22. 58. N. Ion. 84.45. E. 
NOW'AG, a town of Silefia, in the principality of 
Neiffe : five miles north-weft of Neifie. 
NOWAGE'E, a town of Bengal: twenty miles north 
of Palamow. 
NOWAGONG', a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
twenty-two miles north-well of Kairabad. 
NOWAGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
twelve miles fouth-eaft of Bahraitch. 
NOWAGUR', a town of Bengal : fifteen miles north- 
eaft of Palamow. 
NOWAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Ruttunpour: thirty-fix miles fouth of Ruttunpo'ur. 
NOWANAGUR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar : 
fifty-five miles fotith-weft of Patna. Lat. 25. 23. N. Ion. 
84. 23. E. 
NO WAR', a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar: forty-three 
miles fouth-weft of Arrah. 
NOWAR'RA, /.’ [Indian.] An eftablilhment of boats, 
which is kept at Datca, for a defence againlt the Mugs, 
and other plunderers. James's Mil. Did. 
NO'WAY, or Noways, ado. [Dr. Johnfon has hallily 
condemned this expreflion, under Nowise. Todd.] Not 
in any manner or degree.—Wherever a confiderable num¬ 
ber of authorities can be produced in fupport of two dif¬ 
ferent, though refembling, modes ofexpreftion for the fame 
thing, there is always a divided ufe; and one cannot be 
laid to i’peak barbaroufly, or to oppofe the ufage of the 
language, who conforms to either fide. Of this divided 
ufe, the words nowije, noway, and noways, afford a proper 
inllance. Yet our learned lexicographer hath denomi¬ 
nated all thole, who either write or pronounce the word 
noways, ignorant barbarians. Thefe ignorant barbarians 
(but he furely hath not adverted to this circumftance) are 
only Pope, and Swift, and Addifon,and Locke, and feve- 
ral others of our moll eminent writers. This cenfure is 
the more aftonifliing, that, even in this form, which he has 
thought fit to repudiate, the meaning affigned to it is 
flriftly conformable to that which etymology, according 
to his own explication, would fuggell. Campbell's Phil, of 
Rhotorick. 
NOWE, a town of Pruflia, in the province of Ponte- 
relia, on the Viftula: forty miles fouth of Dantzic. 
NOWE, a town of the Hate of Tennafee: thirty-fix 
miles north of Knoxville. 
NOWECZEIT'LY, a town of Auftrian Poland, in Ga¬ 
licia : twenty-eight mites eaft of Lemberg. 
NOWECZEL'KO, a town of Poland, in Podolia : fixty- 
four miles north-w eft of Kaminiecz. 
NOW'ED, adj. [none, Fr. from nodatus, Lat.] Knotted ; 
inwreathed. In heraldry, it is applied to ferpents, or the 
tails of fuch creatures as are very long, and which are 
fometimes reprefented in coat-armour as tied up in a 
knot.—Reuben is conceived to bear three barres waved, 
Judah a lion rampant, Dan aferpent noiued. Brown. 
NO'WEL, J. [noel, Fr. from nala/is, Lat. “ From 
gnoul, fignifying a child in Hebrew, comes the French 
word noel, fignifying the child's day, (by way of dillinc- 
tion,) or ChHJlmas-day." Harris on the 53d ch. of Ifaiah.] 
Aery of joy ; originally a fliotit of joy at Chritlmas. Objblete. 
—And now cl crieth every lufty man. Chaucer's Franlcl. 
Tale. 
NO'WELL (Alexander), a learned divine of the 
church of England, was born at Read in Lancalhire, in 
a the 
