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NUT'TER MO'HR, or Utter, a town of Eaft Fridland: 
nine miles fouth-eaft of Embden. 
NUTURE'E, a town of-Hindooftan, in My fore : twen¬ 
ty-eight miles north-north-eaft of Chitteldroog. 
NUTWABA'RA, a town of Bengal: twenty-three 
miles north-eaft of Ramgnr. 
NUX, j. [Latin.) A nut; any fruit with a hard kernel. 
NUX, J'. in botany. SeeJuGLANs. 
NUX Americana. See Melicocca, Quassia, and 
rifinus. 
- Avellana. See Corylus. 
-- Juglans. SeeJuGLANs. 
-Malabarica. See Sterculia. 
- Moluccana. SeejATRorHA. 
• -- Mofchataand Myriftica. See Myristica. 
-- Velicaria. See Hernandia and Staphyljea. 
• - Vomica. See Strychnos. 
- Zevlanica. See Sterculia. 
NUYS, or Nuesz, late a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Roer, fituated on the Erfft, near its conflux 
with the Rhine. In this town was a college of regular 
canons of the order of St. Auguftine. It carries on a 
brifk trade in deal-boards and coal. Three miles weft of 
Duffeldorf, and twenty-two north-north-weft of Cologne. 
Lat. 51. 10. N. Ion. 6. 35. E. 
NUYTS (Peter), a native of Holland, and a leading 
ch a rafter in that extraordinary tranfaflion which hap¬ 
pened between the Japanefe and the Dutch about the year 
1628. 
In 1627 Nuyts arrived in Batavia from Holland, and 
was in the fame year appointed ambaffador to the empe¬ 
ror of Japan by the governor and council of Batavia. 
Fie repaired to that empire in 1628 ; and, being a man 
of a haughty difpofition, and extremely vain, he be¬ 
lieved it practicable to pafs upon the natives for an am- 
baffador from the king of Holland. Upon his afluming 
this title, he was much more honourably received, ca- 
relfed, and refpeffed, than former minifters had been. 
But he was foon detefled, reprimanded and reproached 
in the fevereft manner, fent back to the port, and ordered 
to return to Batavia with all the circumftances of difgrace 
imaginable; notwithftanding which, his intereft was fo 
great, that, inftead of being puniflied as he deferved, he 
was immediately afterwards promoted to the government 
of the ifland of Formofa, of which he took pofleflion the 
year following. 
He entered upon the adminiftration of affairs in that 
ifland with the fame difpofition that he had fhown while 
ambaffador, and with the fame implacable refentment 
againft the Japanefe; neither was it long before an op¬ 
portunity offered, as he thought, of revenging himfelf to 
the full. Two large Japanefe fhips, with upwards of 506 
men on-board, came into the port; upon which he took 
it into his head to difarm and unrig them, in the fame 
manner as the Dutch veffels are treated at Japan. The 
Japanefe did all they could to defend themfelves from this 
ill-ufage ; but at laft, for want of water, they were 
forced to fubmit. Governor Nuyts went (till farther. 
When they had finifhed their affairsat Formofa, and were 
defirous of proceeding, according to their inftruCtions, 
to China, he put them off with fair words and fine pro- 
mifes till the monfoon was over. They began then to be 
very impatient, and defiredto have their cannon and fails 
reftored, that they might return home ; but the governor 
hadrecourfe to new artifices ; and, by a feries of falfe 
promifes, endeavoured to hinder them from making ufe 
of the feafon proper for that voyage. The Japanefe, 
however, foon perceived his defign; and at length, by a 
bold attempt, accomplifhed what by fair means and hum¬ 
ble entreaty they could not obtain; for, by a daring and 
well-concerted effort, they took him prifoner, and made 
him and one of the council fign a treaty for fecuring their 
liberty, free departure, and indemnity, which was after¬ 
wards ratified by the whole council. Nuyts was firft con- 
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fined in Batavia, and afterwards delivered up to the Ja¬ 
panefe, notwithftanding the mo ft earned entreaties on his 
part to be tried, and even fuffer any kind of death where 
he was, rather than be fent to Japan. He was fent there, 
however, in 1634- He was fubmitted to the mercy or dif- 
cretion of the emperor; and the confequence was, that, 
though imprifoned, he was well-ufed, and could go any¬ 
where, provided his guards were with him, which was 
more than he could poffibly have expefted. He now 
looked for nothing but the continuance of his confine¬ 
ment for life. On a particular occafion, however, i.e. at 
the fuDeral of the emperor’s father, at the requeft of the 
Dutch he was fet free, and returned again to Batavia. 
NUZ'ZER, or Nuzzera'nah; f. [Indian.] A prefent 
or offering from an inferior to a fuperior. In Hindooftan 
no man ever approaches his fuperior for the firft time 
on bufinefs without an offering. Nuzzeranah is fometimes 
ufed for the fum paid to the government, as an acknow¬ 
ledgment fora grant of lands or any public office. 
NUZ'ZI (Mario), commonly called Mario tie Fiori, on 
account of his being an admirable flower-painter, was 
born in 1603, at Penna, in the kingdom of Naples. He 
was educated under his uncle Tomafo Salini ; and, being 
an exaCt obferver of nature, he employed himfelf in co¬ 
pying the fineft flowers cultivated by his father on a ter¬ 
race on the roof of his houfe. So happy were his imi¬ 
tations, that a dealer who purchafed his firft pictures 
made an extraordinary profit in felling them again. 
Mario, informed of this circumftance, and alfo learning 
that his performances fold ftill higher at Rome, refolved 
to vifit that capital. He there rofe to fuch reputation, 
that he had more offers of employment than he could 
execute, and acquired wealth as well as fame. He fent 
for his father, took a houfe, purchafed the mod beauti¬ 
ful flowers he could meet with, and applied himfelf dili¬ 
gently to attain perfection in his branch of the art. It is 
allowed, that his reprefentations of nature were equally 
exaCt and elegant, that he chofe his fubjefts with tafte, 
handled his penc^ with wonderful lightnefs, and colour¬ 
ed with Angular beauty. Mr. Fufeli, however, in his 
edition of Pilkington’s Dictionary, fays, that “ the charm 
which Mario fpread over his flowers was not a permanent 
one : the impurity of the vehicle foon abforbed the 
freftinefs and the bloom of his glazings, and left a fqua’id 
furface.” Hence his pictures did not long maintain the 
extraordinary prices at which they were firft purchafed. 
He, however, enjoyed the fruits of his indnftry: he mar¬ 
ried, brought-up a family, and built from his own defign 
a handfome houfe with a garden, in which, after his fa¬ 
ther’s death, he himfelf took pleafure to cultivate the 
choice fubjeCts of his pencil. He was made a member of 
the Academy of St. Luke, and received from his brethren 
all the refpeft that great excellence, though in an inferior 
department of the art, could command. He died in 
1673, at the age of feventy. This artift was of a mild 
and amiable temper, regular in his manner of living, and 
extremely diligent in his profeflion, at which he always 
worked early in the morning, faying, that “he who did 
not fee the fun rife loft half the day.” 
To NUZ'ZLE, v.a. [This word, in its original fignifi- 
cation, feems corrupted from nourjle ; but, when its origi¬ 
nal meaning was forgotten, writers fuppofed it to come 
from nozzle, or nofe, and in that fenfe ufed it. See the verb 
neuter, which Dr. Johnfon had intermixed with the pre- 
fent verb. Todd.] To nurfe; to fofter.—Old men, long 
nuzzled in corruption, fcorning them that would feek re¬ 
formation. Sidney. —To neftle; to houfe, as in a nefl. 
Not noticed by Dr. Johnfon.—She [Wifdom] nozzleth 
herfelfin his bofom, cherilheth his foul. Stafford's JSiobe, 
1611. 
To NUZ'ZLE, v.n. To go with the nofe down like a 
hog.—Sir Roger Ihook his ears, and nuzzled along, well 
fatisfied that he was doing a charitable work. Arbathuoi's 
J. Bull. 
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