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Feet long, and contains fourteen apartments, and an im- 
menfe court, where we difcovered eight colofi'al figures 
thirty feet high. The columns and the walls are covered 
with hieroglyphics and figures, very well preferved. This 
temple has then been fpared by Cambyfes, and the other 
ravagers who came after him. I brought fome antiqui¬ 
ties from thence; two lions with the heads ol vultures, 
and a fmall datue of Jupiter Ammon.” 
NU'BIA, or Nua'bia, a town of Africa, in the coun¬ 
try of Nubia, on the Nile, fuppofed to be the ancient 
Mefoe: 300 miles north-ead of Sennaar, and 380 foutli 
of Syene. Lat. 18. 10. N. Ion. 34. 54. E. 
NU'BIAN, adj. Belonging to Nubia. 
NU'BIAN, f. An inhabitant of Nubia. 
NUBIC'UIAE, /.' with pliyficians, the fmall cloud-like 
appearances in urine. 
NUBIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. nubes, a cloud, and 
fero, to bring.] Producing elouds. 
NUBIG'ENOUS, adj. [from the Lat. miles, and gigno, 
to beget.] Produced by clouds. 
NUBIG'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. miles, and gci'o, 
to carry.] Bringing clouds. 
To NU'BILATE, v.a. [nulrilo, Lat.] To cloud. 
NU'BILE, adj. [Fr. from nubilis, Lat.] Marriageable ; 
fit for marriage: 
The cowflip fmiles, in brighter yellow dred 
Than that which veils the nubile virgin’s bread:. Prior. 
NUBILO'SE, or Nu'bilous, adj. Cloudy. 
NUBLA'DA, an ifland in the North Pacific Ocean, 
with three fmall ones near it, lying fouth-wed of Cape 
Corientes, on the coad of Mexico. Lat. 16.40.N. Ion. 
122. 30. W. 
NUB'LE, a river of Chili, which runs into the Itala 
twenty miles from its mouth. 
NUCA'IL, a town of Africa: feventy miles fouth-wed 
of Fez. 
NUCAMEN'TUM, f. The ancient Latin name forthe 
catkin, or pendulous firing of dowers, for the mod part 
male, as in the oak, fir, &c. for which Linnaeus ufes the 
term amentum. 
NUCAS'SE, a town of United America, in the Ten- 
nefee date-; five miles fouth of Knoxville. 
NU'CEOUS, adj. [from nux, Lat. a nut.] Made of nuts, 
confiding of nuts. 'Bailey. 
NUCE'RIA, in ancient geography, a town of Campa¬ 
nia taken by Hannibal. It became a Roman colony un¬ 
der Augultus, and was called Nucevia Conjiantina, or 
Alfuterna. It now bears the name of Nocera, and con¬ 
tains about 30,000 inhabitants. 
NU'CHA, f. in anatomy, the hinder part of the neck. 
NUCHAN', a [own of Ruflia, near the fea; which fe- 
parates the continent of Ada from America. Lat. 66. N. 
Ion. 189. 14. E. 
NU'CHI, Nughi, or Scheki, the capital of a country 
near the Cafpian Sea, called Scheki, and fituated in the 
elevated ridge of mountains on the Kur. Nuchi confide 
of 300 houfes, and is defended by a drong cadle, former¬ 
ly called Kara Hiflar, at prefent Gallafin Gorafen, which 
refided the victorious troops of Nadir Shah. The popu¬ 
lation of the city, and of the village belonging to it, 
amounts to about 2800 families'. To the fouth of Nuchi, 
on the bank of the Kur, lies a large and flourilhing mar¬ 
ket-town, called Akdajf/i. 
NU'CI, a town of Naples, in the province of Bari : 
twelve miles fouth-wed of Monopoli. 
NU'CI METALLfE CONGENER. See Datura. 
NU'CI PER'SICA. See Amygdaluis. 
NU'CI PRUNIF'ERA. See Sapindus. 
NUCIF'EROUS, adj. [from the Lat. mix, a nut, and 
fero, to bear.] Producing nuts. 
NUCK (Antony), a Ikilful anatomid and furgeon, 
was a native of Germany, but fettled in Holland. He 
pradtifed in his profeflion fird at the Hague ; and then re- 
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moved to Leyden, where he filled the chair of anatomy 
and furgery in the univerfity, and was prefident of the 
College of Surgeons. He acquired great celebrity by his 
Ikill in difledlion, and his luccefs in filling the minute 
yeflels, efpecially the lymphatics, with quickfilver; and 
purfued his labours with indefatigable indudry, till his 
premature death, about the year 1692. In the Tranfaftions 
of the Royal Society of London for 1682, there is an ac¬ 
count of Nuck’s difeovery of a new falival dtidt; of the 
Communication between the red veins and the lymphatics ; 
and of a mode of making preparations of the lungs by 
inflation. He fird publidied at Leyden, in 1685, a work 
“ De Dufitu Saliva linovo, Saliva, DuCtibus Oculoruni 
aquofis, et Humore Oculi aqueo,” umo. In this per¬ 
formance he gives a defeription of his new duff, which 
is found only in certain quadrupeds, with a full account 
of the fecretion of the faliva, its nature, and difeafes; and 
a defeription of the eye, and the fecretion of theaqueous 
humour. This work was reprinted after his death under 
the title of Sialographia, Leid. 1695, 1723, 8vo. with the 
addition of fome new figures. In 1691 he publifhed 
“ Defenfio DuCtuum Aquoforum,” in which he anfwered 
fome objections that had been made, and added fome new 
obfervations; this is reprinted in the Sialographia. Ano¬ 
ther of his anatomical works was “Adenographia Curi- 
ofa;” Leid. 1691, &c. Thisis adefcriptionof all theglands, 
the intimate druCture of which he elucidates by mercu¬ 
rial injections : it contains much curious invefligation of 
the lymphatic fydem, of which he may be reckoned the 
mod accurate delcriber before the modern difeoveries. 
His pupil, Tilling, publidied in 1692 his “Operationes 
& Experimenta Chirurgica,” 8vo. often reprinted, and 
tranflated into German. Many new inflruments, and un¬ 
common modes of chirurgical treatment, are deferibed in 
this work, which contains various matters worthy of ob- 
fervation. All the works of Nuck were printed collec¬ 
tively in two volumes 8vo. Leid. 1733. Hidleri JJibl. 
Anat. <5- (Jhirnrg. Gen. Biog. 
NUCK'IAN, rnlj. in anatomy, belonging to certain 
glands feated near the eye, and fird difcovered by Nuck, 
a phyfician in Holland. 
NUCKIA'NiE, J'. pin. Certain glands feated near the 
eye, and fird difcovered by Nuck. 
NU'CLEUS,y.‘ [Latin.] A kernel; anything about 
which matter is gathered or conglobated.—The crufls are 
each in all parts nearly of the fame thicknefs, their figure 
fuited to the nucleus, and the outer furface of the done 
exaCtly of the fame form with that of the nucleus. Wood¬ 
ward on Foffils. —The middle part of a floor formed after 
the manner of the ancients ; the head of a comet, the 
middle part of a planet. 
NUC'TA, f. A dew, which, falling in Egypt about St. 
John’s day, is, by the fuperflitious natives of the country, 
conlidered as miraculous, and the peculiar gift of that 
faint. Its effefts are indeed fo beneficial, that this belief 
is little furprifing among a people lo totally ignorant of 
natural caufes as the modern Egyptians; for, it is acknow¬ 
ledged by the mod enlightened travellers to flop the 
plague, and announce a Ipeedy and plentiful inundation 
of the country. Thefe effeCfs are thus rationally ac¬ 
counted for by Mr. Bruce. “In February and March, 
the fun is on its approach to the zenith of one extremity 
of Egypt, and of courfe has a very conliderable influence 
upon the other. The Nile having now fallen low, the wa¬ 
ter in certain old cifierns, which, though they dill exid, 
are fullered to accumulate all the filth of the river, be¬ 
comes putrid, and the river itfelf has lod all its finer and 
volatile parts by the continued aClion of a vertical fun; 
fo that, inflead of being fubjeCl to evaporation, it grows 
daily more and more inclined to putrefaClion. About St. 
John’s day, it receives a plentiful mixture of the frelh and 
fallen rain from Ethiopia, which dilutes and refrelhes the 
almod-corrupted river ; and' the fun, near at hand, exerts 
its influence upon the water, which is now become light 
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