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up.—Thou broughteft: it up with thy righteoufnefs, and 
nurturedft it in thy law, and reformed!! it with thy judg¬ 
ment. 2 Efdr. viii. 12.—When an infolent defpifer of dif- 
cipline, nurtured into impudence, lhall appear before a 
church-governour, feverity and refolution are that gover- 
nour’s virtues. South. 
To Nurture-w/i. To bring by care and food to ma¬ 
turity.—They fuppofe mother-earth to be a great animal, 
and to have nurturecl-up her young offspring with a con- 
lcious tendernefs. Bentley. 
NURVA'LA,/. in botany. See Cratteva. 
NUS, a town of France, in the department of the Dora: 
fix miles fouth-eaft of Aofta. 
NUS'BACH, a fmall river of Germany, which runs 
into the Gutach near Friberg. 
NUS'BERG, a town of Pruffia, in Ermeland : ten miles 
fouth-fouth-weft of Heillberg. 
NUS'CO, a town of Naples, in Principato Ultra ; the 
fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of Salerno-, eight miles north 
of Conza. Lat. 40. 56. N. Ion. 15. 1. E. 
NUS'DORFF, a town of Auftria: three miles north- 
weft of Vienna. 
NU'SE. See Neus. 
NU'SHAR, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the govern¬ 
ment of Marafch, where there is a paffage acrofs the Eu¬ 
phrates : fifty-five miles fouth-weft of Diarbekir, and 
thirty fouth of Malatia. 
NU'SHAR, a town of Curdiftan, at the foot of Mount 
Ararat: twenty miles north-eaft of Van. 
NUSSERABAD', a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifli: 
thirty miles fouth-weft of Burhanpour. 
NUSSER ATPOU'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Baglana: 
twenty miles north-eaft of Chandor. 
NUS'SERPOUR, a diftrift or province of Hindooftan, 
in Sindy, lying on each fide of the Indus, between Se- 
weftan and Tatta. 
ToNUS'TLE, v. a. To fondle; to cherifli. Corrupted 
from nourjle. 
NUT, / [hnuT, Sax. noot, Dut. noix, Fr.] The fruit 
of certain trees ; it confifts of a kernel covered by a hard 
fhell. If the (hell and kernel are in the centre of a pulpy 
fruit, they then make not a nut, but a (tone.— Nuts are 
hard of digeftion, yet pofiefs lorne good medicinal qua¬ 
lities. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 
One chanc’d to find a nut, 
In the end of which a hole was cut, 
Which lay upon a hazel-root, 
There fcatter’d by a (quirrel. Drayton s Nymphicl. 
A fmall body with teeth, which correfpond with the teeth 
of wheels.—Clocks and jacks, though the fcrews and teeth 
of the wheels and nuts be never fo 1’mooth, yet, if they be 
not oiled, will hardly move. Ray on the Creation. 
To NUT, v. n. To gather nuts.—A. W. went to angle 
with Will. Staine of Mert. Coll, to Wheatley-bridge, and 
piatted in Shotover by the way. A. Wood's Life of Himfelf. 
NUT, Barbadoes. See Perihones. 
-Bladder. See Staphylea. 
-- Caftiew. See Anacardium. 
—.-Chocolate. See Theobroma. 
—-Cob. See Corylus. 
-Cocoa. See Cocos. 
-- Earth. See Arachis and Bunium. 
-Faufel. See Areca. 
-Ground. See Arachis. 
-Hazle. See Corylus. 
-Malabar. SeeJusTiciA. 
-•-Peafe Earth. See Lathyrus. 
.-Phyfic. See Croton and Iatrofha. 
--Spanifti. See Iris. 
■-Walnut. See Juglans. - 
NUT'-BROWN, aclj. Brown, like a nut long kept: 
When this nut-brown fword was out, 
With ftomach huge he laid about. Hudibras. 
NUT 
Two milk-white kids run frilking by her fide, 
For which the nut-brown lafs, Erithacis, 
Full often offer’d many a favoury kifs. Dry den. 
King Hardicnute, midft Danes and Saxons flout, 
Carous’d in nut-brown ale, and din’d on grout. King. 
NUT'-CRACKER, f. A bird; the Corvus caryoca- 
NUT'-CRACKERS, f. An inftrument ufed to enclofe 
nuts, and break them by preffure.—He caft every human 
feature out of his countenance, and became a pair of nut- 
crackers. Addifon's Spectator. 
NUT'-CROOK. See Nut-hook. 
NUT'-G ALL,/. Hard excrefcence of an oak.—In ve¬ 
getable excretions, maggots terminate in flies of con- 
ftant fhapes, as in the nut-galls of the outlandifh oak. 
Brown. 
NUT'-HATCII. See Sitta. 
NUT'-HOOK, J'. A (tick with ahookatthe end to pull 
down boughs, that the nuts may be gathered.—She’s the 
king’s nut-hook, that? when any filbert is ripe, pulls down 
the braveft boughs to his hand. Comedy of match Me in 
London, 1631.—It was anciently, I know not why, a 
name of contempt, Dr. Johnfon here fays ; but, in a note 
on Shakefpeare, confiders it as the defignation of a catch¬ 
poll. Other commentators believe it to be the reproach¬ 
ful name of a perfon who ftole goods out at windows, by 
means of a pole with a hook at the end of it. Todd. — Nut- 
hook, nut-hook, you lie. Shakefpeare's Hen. IV. 
NUT'-SHELL, J'. The hard lubftance that inclofes the 
kernel of the nut.— I could be bounded in a nut fhell, and 
count myfelf a king of infinite fpace. Shakefpeare's Ham¬ 
let. —It feems as eafy to me, to have the idea of fpace 
empty of body, as to think of the hollow of a nut Jh ell 
without a kernel. Locke. —It is ufed proverbially for any 
thing of little value.—A fox had me by the back; and a 
thoufand pound to a nut-Jhell I had never got o ff again. 
L' Eftrange. 
NUT'-TREE, f. A tree that bears nuts; commonly a 
hazel. See Coralus. —Of trees, you (hall have the nut- 
tree and the oak. Peacham. 
NUTA'TION, /.' [ nutatio , Lat.] A kind of tremulous 
motion of the axis of the earth.—What fubjedl of human 
contemplation (hall compare in grandeur with that, 
which dates the tides, adjuffs the nutation of the earth, &c. 
Wakefield's Mem. See the article Astronomy. 
NUT'BROOK CANAL'. See Canal Navigation, 
vol. iii. p. 687, 8. 
NUT'FIELD, or Northfield, a village in Surrey, 
between Ryegate and Blechingly. In a red fandy com¬ 
mon here, there is a metalline kind of fubftance, that 
looks like caft-iron, and is called raggs, much efteemed 
for paving ; and there are feveral pits, from which they 
dig a great quantity of fullers-earth. 
NUT'LEY, a village in Hampfhire, between Alton and 
Whitchurch. 
NUT'LEY, a village in Suffex, fouth of Afhdown-foreft; 
with a- fair on the 4th of May. 
NUT'MEG, J'. [nut and muguette, Fr. And fo our old 
word is notemuge.'} The kernel of a large fruit not un¬ 
like the peach, and feparated from that and from its in- 
veftient coat, the mace, before it is fent over to us ; 
except that the whole fruit is fometimes fent in pre- 
ferve, by way of fweetmeat, or as acuriofity. See Myris- 
tica.—T he fecond integument, a dry and flofculous 
coat, commonly called mace ; the fourth, a kernel inclu¬ 
ded in the (hell, which lieth under the mace, is the fame 
W'e call nutmeg. Brown. 
Notemuge to put in ale, 
Whether it be moift or (tale. Chaucer's Rime of SirThopas. 
I to my pleafant gardens went, 
Where nutmegs breathe a fragrant feent. Sandys. 
NUTRICA'TION, f. [nutricatio, Lat.] Manner of 
feeding or being fed.—Befides the teeth, the tongue of 
this 
