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perennial grafs, with numerous upright Items, whofe 
knots are bearded with fdky hairs. Leaves flat.and fliort. 
Spike folitary, ovate, refembling that of the fox-tail grafs, 
(Alopecurus,) Ample, deftitute of any involucrum. 
Brown's Prod. New Hull. 
NEURA'DA, f. [fo called, as Linnaeus himfelf tells 
us, Phil. Bot. 183. from k£v§«, a nerve, inallufion to the 
ftrudture of the plant; probably adverting to the ftrong 
inter-branching ribs or nerves of the feed-vefiel.] In bo¬ 
tany, a genus of the clafs decandria, order decagynia, 
natural order, fucculentae, Linn, (rofaceae, Jvff. but this 
author juftly doubts, whether his uncle and Adanfon 
have not led him into an error; the genus furely belongs 
to his ficoidex.) Generic characters—Calyx: perian- 
thium fuperior, minute, in five deep, at length hardened, 
fegments. Corolla:petalsfive,equal,oval,fellile,ereft. Sta¬ 
mina: filaments ten, awl-lhaped, fhorter than the calyx; an- 
therx fimple. Piftillum: germen inferior, gibbous below ; 
ftyles ten, very fhort, approximated; ftigmas capitate. Pe- 
ricarpium : capfule orbicular, deprefied, convex beneath, 
covered all over with afcending thorns, of ten cells. Seeds 
folitary.— Effential Character . Calyx in five deep perma¬ 
nent fegments; petalsfive; capfule inferior, thorny, with 
ten cells and ten feeds. 
Neurada procumbens, or proftrate neurada, the only 
fpecies. Native of dry fandy ground in Egypt, Arabia, 
Numidia, See. Profeflor Desfontaines gathered it in limi- 
jar fituations near Tunis. The root is laid to be annual. 
Stems feveral, proftrate, woody at the bafe, round, leafy., 
with numerous ftiort axillary branches. They are clothed, 
like every part of the herbage, even the flowers and fruit, 
except only the corolla and organs of impregnation, with 
a denfe deprefied fno.w-wliite cottony down. Leaves al¬ 
ternate, ftalked, ovate-oblong, obtule ; tapering at the 
bafe, pinnatifid and notched ; lefs cottony on their upper 
furface. Flowers axillary, folitary, rather ftalked. Lin¬ 
naeus, who raifed this plant from feeds lent him by Bernard 
de Juflieu, (fee Hort. Upf. 117.) recommends lowing the 
entire fruit, in the drieft poflible foil. Forlkall remarks 
that, in a ftate of nature, the whole capfule remains, like 
a ring, encircling the root. So we find it in a fpecimen 
from Desfontaines. Thus nine of the feeds prove fuper- 
fluous, as one capfule produces but a Angle plant. The 
only figure of the Neurada is that of Lamarck ; the 
fynonyms of Shaw and Plukenet, cited by Linnaeus, 
belonging to Forlkalea tenaciiiima. It is unknown in our 
gardens. 
NEURE' (Mathurin de), an able French mathema¬ 
tician in the feventeenth century, was a native of Chinon ; 
but w’e have no account of the date either of his birth or 
of his death. His attachment to mathematical ftudies 
introduced him to the acquaintance and the friendfliip of 
the celebrated Gaffendi, on whofe recommendation he 
was appointed tutor to the children of M. de Champigny, 
intendant of juftice at Aix. Afterwards he was entrufted 
with the education of the princes of Longueviile. He 
was on all occafions a zealous defender of the principles 
and fame of his earlieft patron Gaflendi, and on his ac¬ 
count became involved in a controverfy with John Morin, 
phyfician, and profeftor-royal of mathematics at Paris. 
The pieces to which this controverly gave rife were col¬ 
lected together, and publilhed in a quarto volume at Paris, 
in 1650. Three of his Letters, in Latin, on mathematical 
and altronomical fubjeCts, are inferted in the lixth volume 
of the folio edition of Gaflendi’s works. Neure alfo 
publilhed a Latin letter in quarto, expofing, in fevere 
and pointed terms, the ridiculous and fuperftitious cuf- 
toms obferved by the provengals at the feftival of Corpus 
Chrifti. Occafionally our author had paid his court to 
the mufes, and publilhed fome Latin verfes which arenot 
deftitute of merit, though their ftyle is fometimes too 
turgid and inflated. Gen. Biog. 
NEURIT'ICS, or Ner'vines, f . Remedies proper for 
difeafes of the nerves, and nervous parts; as the mem- 
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branes, ligaments, &c. Such are betony, lavender, rofe- 
mary, fage, laurel, marjoram, and others among the ce- 
phalics. 
WEURO'DE, a towm of Silefia, in the circle of Glatz. 
Here are manufactures of cloth and ferges, -with a con- 
fiderable trade in fnuff and tobacco: ten miles north- 
north-weft of Glatz. Lat. 50. 22. N. Ion. 16. 19. E. 
NEURO'DES,j; [from vsvpov, Gr. a nerve.] A nervous 
fever, a lingering fever. 
NEUROG'RAPHY, f. A defeription of the nerves. 
NEUROL'OGY, f. [nvpo», Gr. a nerve, and Aoyo?, a 
difeourfe.] A defeription of the nerves. 
NEUROP'TERA, j. The name of the fourth order of 
infeCts, according to the Linnxan fyltem. This order is 
well exemplified in the Libellul.®, or Dragon-flies 
(which fee), in which the charaCteriltic of the order is 
very confpicuous. The wings are always four in number. 
The infeCts of this order are chiefly aquatic ; refiding in 
the waters as caterpillars; and flying about their furface 
in the perfeCl ftate. See the article Entomology, vol. vi. 
p. 833. 
NEU'ROSPAST, f. [nvgoo-7rctre&, Gr. to draw the 
nerves.] A puppet; a figure put in motion : 
That outward form is but a neurofpajl; 
The foul it is, that, on her fubtile ray 
That fhe Ihoots forth, the limbs of moving beaft 
Doth ftretch ftrait forth. More's Immortal, of the Soul. 
NEUROTIC, adj. Good for diforders of the nerves. 
NEUROTIC, f. A remedy for diforders of the nerves. 
NEUROT'OMIST, J\ One Ikilled in diffeClions of the 
nerves. 
NEUROTOMY, f. [iwpo», Gr. a nerve, and to 
cut.] The anatomy of the nerves. 
NEU'SALTZ, a town of Silelia, in the principality of 
Glogau, on the Oder: twelve miles north-weft of Glogau. 
Lat. 51.48. N. Ion. 15. 45. E. 
NEU'SATZ, a town ot Hungary, formerly called Peter 
War dein Schanz, feparated by the Danube from Peter 
Wardein in Sclavonia, peopled by Rafcians, and fortified. 
It is the fee of a Greek bilhop, and was made a royal and 
free town in 1751. 
NEU'SCHLOSS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Saatz : fix miles eaft of Saatz. 
NEU'SCHLOSS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Leitmeritz : three miles fouth of Leypa. 
NEU'SCHLOSS, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of 
Konigingratz : nine miles weft-fouth-weft of Trautenau. 
NEU'SCHLOSS, a town of Silefia, which gives name 
to a lordlhip on the borders of Poland: five miles eaft of 
Militfch. 
NEUSE, a river of North Carolina, which rifes above 
Hilllborough, and, after a courfe of more than five hun¬ 
dred miles, falls into Pamlico Sound in lat. 34. 56. N. Ion. 
76. 50. W. feventy miles below Newbern, twelve miles 
above which it is navigable for (hips. 
NEU'SIDL, a town of Hungary, on a lake of the fame 
name: fixteen miles north-weft of Altenburg, and twenty- 
four fouth-weft of Freiburg. 
NEU'SIDL SEE', a lake of Hungary, thirteen miles 
long and three wide : twenty miles fouth-eaft of Vienna. 
NEU'SLING, a town of Germany, in the margravate 
of Anfpach : leven miles eaft of Weiffenburgh. 
NEU'SOL, a town of Hungary. It is a royal free town, 
and the beft of the mine-towns, fituated on the river 
Gran. It is built much in the Saxon manner; has fix 
churches and a fchool, with about five thoufand inhabi¬ 
tants, chiefly Sclavonians and Germans. It is noted for 
its weekly market, and the copper-ore in the adjacent 
mountains. The fmelting-worksgive the airanunhealthy 
taint: forty-eight miles eaft-north-eaft of Leopoldftadt, 
and 104 eaft of Vienna. Lat. 48. 47. N. Ion. 19. 25. E. 
NEU'SORG, a town of Bavaria, in the bilhopric of 
Bamberg; three miies eaft-north-eaft of Kupferberg. 
NEUSS, 
