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for hope and charity we may not exclude; but that with* 
out belief all other things are as nothing, and it is the 
ground of thofe other divine virtues. Hooker. 
NA'KED LA'DIES. See Colchicum. 
NA'KEDLY, adv. Without covering. — Numberlefs 
things, which we pafs by in their common drefs, {hock 
us when they are nakedly reprefented. Burke’s Vindic. of 
Nat. Society. —Simply; merely ; barely; in the abftra6t.— 
Though leveral fingle letters, jia/ierf/yconfidered, are found 
to be articulations only of fpirit or breath, and not of 
breath vocalized; yet there is that property in all letters 
of aptnefs to be conjoined in fyllables. Holder. —Difco- 
verably ; evidently.—Truth feeketh no holes to hide it- 
felf: Princes, that will hold covenant, muft deal openly 
and nakedly. Fuller's Holy War. 
So blinds the (harped councils of the wife 
This overffiadowing Providence on high, 
And dazzleth all their cleared-fighted eyes. 
That they fee not how nakedly they lie. Daniel. 
NA'KEDNESS, f. [nacebnyppe, Sax.] Nudity; want 
of covering.—I entreat my gentle readers to fow on their 
tuckers again, and not to imitate the nakednefs, but the 
innocence, of their mother Eve. AddiJ'on's Guardian. 
Nor he their outward only with their lkins 
Of beads, but inward nakednefs, much more 
Opprobrious ! with his robe of righteoufnefs 
Arraying, cover’d from his father’s fight. Milton. 
Want of provifion for defence.—Ye are fpies; to fee the 
nakednefs of the land ye are come. Gen. xlii. 9.—Plain- 
nefs ; evidence; want of concealment.—The nakednefs of 
which opinion will not permit me to look any longer 
thereupon. Spencer on Prodig ies. 
Why feeked thou to cover with excufe 
That which appears in proper nakednefs? Sliakefpeare. 
NA'KEL, a town of the duchy of Warfaw : forty miles 
north-north-wed of Gnefna. 
NAK'ELO. See Nachelo, p. 501. 
NAKGIVAN', a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Arokhage : thirty miles fouth-fouth-wed of Arokhage. 
NAKI'A, a town of Syria : ten miles north of Acre. 
NA'KIB, J'. The name of an officer who is a deputy to 
the eadilijkier, or, as he may be called, the lord high chan¬ 
cellor of Egypt, appointed by the grand fignior. His 
office is to carry the dandard of Mahomet. Chambers. 
NAK'KILA, a town of Sweden, in the province of Abo: 
ten miles fouth-louth-ead of Biorneborg. 
NA'KLO, a town of the duchy of Warfaw; thirty-lix 
miles north-north-wed of Gnefna. 
NA'KOUS, f. An Egyptian muiical indrument, made 
like two plates of brafs, and of all fizes, from two inches 
to a foot in diameter; they hold them by drings fadened 
to their middles, and drike them together fo as to beat 
time. They are ufed in the Coptic churches and in the 
Mahometan proceffions. Chambers. 
NA'ICRA, atown of Perlia, in the provinceof Chorafan : 
nine miles north-ead of Herat. 
NAK'RASH, atown of Egypt, on a canal formed from 
the Nile to the lake Maraeotis: ten miles north-wed of 
Shabur. 
NAK'VAY, a town of Africa, in the kingdom of 
Yani. 
NA'LA SUN'KRA, a branch of the Indus, which di¬ 
vides from the main dream fourteen miles fouth-wed of 
Nufierpour, and runs into the fea thirty miles welt of 
Boogebooge. 
NALABOO', a fea-port on the wed coad of Sumatra. 
Lat. 4.16. N. Ion. 95. 5. E. 
NALADI'DY, a town of Hindoodan, in Marawar: 
thirty-five miles north-wed of Ramanadporum. 
NAL'DA, a town of Spain, in Old Cartile : three miles 
louth of Logrono. 
NALDOUROU'IC, a town of Hindoodan, in Dowlata- 
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bad : 120 miles wed of Hydrabad, and feventy-fix ead of 
Vifiapour. Lat. 17. 27. N. Ion. 76. 4.5. E. 
NALIBO'KI, a town of Lithuania: twenty-five miles 
north-ead of Novogrodek. 
NALIKAN', a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Natolia : thirty-two miles ead of Elki-Shehr. 
NALL, f. An awl, fuch as collar-makers or ffioe- 
makers ufe: 
Whole bridle and faddle, whitleather and nail, 
With collars and liarnefs. Tuffer. 
NALLABI'GA, a town of Hindoodan, in Bahar: 
thirty-three miles fouth wed of Bahar. 
NALLACON'D, a town of Hindoodan, in Golconda : 
twenty-one miles fouth of Combamet. 
NALLAGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: fix miles fouth- 
wed of Chilmary. 
NALLIE'RES, a town of France, in the department of 
the Vendee: fix miles ead of Lugon. 
NA'LIJS, a country and people of Africa, between the 
rivers Nuno, Tridao, and Rio-Grande, bordering on the 
country of Sierra Leona, not far from the Atlantic, be¬ 
tween lat. 10. and 11. N. 
NA'LON, a river of Spain, which runs into the Pravia 
two miles fouth of Oviedo. 
NALUGU', J'. in botany. See Arabia, and Luba 
fambucina. 
NA'MA, jl [of Pliny and Theophradus, fignifying a 
dream or fpring of Water.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
pentandria, order digynia, natural order of fucculentae, 
(convolvuli, Jujf.) Generic Characters—Calyx: perian- 
thium one-leafed, five-parted, permanent; fegments lan¬ 
ceolate, acute, draight,fomewhatfpreading. Corolla: one- 
petalled, wheel-falver-ffiaped ; tube fliort; border five- 
parted; fegments ovate, obtufe, the length of the calyx. 
Stamina: filaments five, filiform, ovate at the bafe, inferted 
into the middle of the tube of the corolla, alternate with 
and ffiorter than the fegments ; antheras oblong, bifid at 
the bafe, revolute, incumbent. Pidillum : germen ovate, 
fuperior; dyles two, capillary, ereft, the length of the 
damens; digmas capitate. Pericarpium : capfule ovate- 
oblong, blunt, comprefled, grooved on each fide, two- 
celled, two-valved, fiiorter than the calyx. Seeds : nu¬ 
merous, very fmall, fadened to a flat receptacle in the 
middle of the partition.— Ejfential Char abler. Calyx five¬ 
leaved ; corolla five-parted; capfule one-celled, two- 
valved. 
Nama Jamaicenfis, the only fpecies now retained. It 
has an herbaceous flem, from two inches to half a foot 
in length, fubdivided, procumbent, pubefcent, tender, 
three-winged from the decurrent petioles, Branchlets 
from the axils of the leaves, procumbent. Leaves oppo- 
fite, wedge-fliaped at the bafe, ovate-roundifli, entire, 
pubefcent. Flowers axillary, two to four, in cluders, 
fmall, white, on fhort peduncles. Capfule oblong, blunt, 
four-cornered, acuminate, one-celled, two-valved ; con¬ 
taining many, minute, roundifli, brown, feeds. Accord¬ 
ing to Gaertner, the capfule is roundifli (teretiufcula), 
marked with a groove on each fide, two-celled, two- 
valved, the valves when ripe becoming bifid ; feeds fub- 
globular, fmall, fcrobiculate, or lfriated lattice-wile. 
Browne fays, that this little plant fpreads about the root, 
and feldom grows above five or fix inches in height; that 
the whole of it is fomewhat hairy, with the flalk and 
branches margined. It is an annual plant, native of Ja¬ 
maica, in cultivated grounds, and ruins of rocks. 
NA'MA ZEYLAN'ICA. See Hydrolea Zeylanica, 
vol. x. 
NAMACU'L, a town of Hindoodan, in the Barramaul: 
country : forty-two miles fouth of Darempoury, and lix- 
ty-two ead-north-ead of Coimbetore. Lat. 11.22. N. 
Ion. 78. 5. E. 
NAMAGANG', a fmall illand in the Eadern Indian 
Sea. Lat. 6. 45. S. Ion. 132. E. 
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