61S N A M 
To NAME, v. a. To difcriminate by a particular appel¬ 
lation impofed.—Thou haft had feven hulbands, neither 
waft thou named after any of them. Tab. iii. 8.—His name 
was called Jefus, which was fo named of the angel before 
he was conceived. Luke ii. 21. 
Thus was the building left 
Ridiculous, and the work Confulion nam'd. Milton. 
To mention by name.—Accuftom not thy mouth tofwear- 
ing ; neither ufe thyfelf to the naming of the Holy One. 
JEcclus. xxiii. 9.- —To fpecify ; to nominate.'—Bring me him 
up whom I lliall name. 1 Sam. xxviii. 8.—Let any one 
name that propofition, whole terms or ideas were either 
of them innate. Locke. 
Did my father's godfon feek your life ? 
He whom my father nam'd? Your Edgar. Shakefpeare. 
To utter; to mention.—Let my name be named on them. 
Gen. xlviii. 16.—To entitle: 
Celeftial, whether among the thrones, or nam'd 
Of them the higheft. Milton's Paradife Left. 
NA'MELESS, adj. Not diftinguilhed by any diferimi- 
native appellation.—A lieadlefs carcafs, and a namelefs 
thing. Denham. 
Thy reliques, Rowe, to this fair fhrine we truft. 
And facred, place by Dryden’s awful duft; 
Beneath a rude and namelefs ftone he lies, 
To which thy tomb (hall guide enquiring eyes. Pope. 
One of which the name is not known or mentioned.— 
Little credit is due to accufations of this kind, when they 
come from iufpedted, that is, from namelefs pens. Atterbury. 
Such imag’ry of greatnefs ill became 
A namelefs dwelling, and an unknown name. Harte. 
NA'MELY, adv. Particularly; fpecially; to mention by 
name.—The council making remonftrances unto queen 
Elizabeth, of the continual confpiracies againft her life; 
and namely, that a man was lately taken, who flood ready 
in a very fufpicious manner to do the deed; advifed her 
to go lei's abroad weakly attended. But the queen an- 
fwered, that fhe had rather be dead than put in cuftody. 
IBacon. —Solomon’s choice does not only inftrudt us in 
that point of hiftory, but furnilhes out a very line moral 
to us, namely, that he who applies his heart to wifdom, 
does at the lame time take the raoft proper method for 
gaining long life, riches, and reputation. Addifon. 
Which of thefe forrows is he fubjefit to ? 
To none of thefe, except it be the laft; 
Namely, fome love that drew him oft from home. Shakcfp. 
NA'MER, f. [from name.~\ One who calls or knows 
any by name. Sherwood. 
NA'MESAKE, f. One that has the fame name with 
another.—One author is a mole to another: it is impoftible 
for them to difcover beauties; they have eyes only for 
blemifhes: they can indeed fee the light, as is laid of their 
namrfakes; but immediately Unit their eyes. Addifon. . 
NAMETZ'KY, a town of Moravia, in the circle of 
Brunn : eight miles north-north-eaft of Saar. 
NAMIEST', a town of Moravia, in thecircle of Olmutz: 
ten miles weft of Olmutz. 
NAMIEST', a town ov'Moravia, in the circle of Znaym: 
thirty miles north of Znaym. 
NAMINGA'TA, a town of Japan, in the illand of 
Niphon : fifty-fix miles north-w'eft of Fitaqua. 
NAMMES'TA, a towrn of Norway, in the diocefe 
of Aggerhuus: twenty-eight miles fouth-fouth-eaft of 
Chriftiania. 
NAMNAGUR', a towrn of Hindooftan, in Bahar: fifty- 
eight miles foilth-fouth-weft of Patna. 
NAM'PHIO. See Nanfio. 
NAM'PTWICH. See Nantwick. 
NAM'SEN, a river of Norway, which runs into a bay 
of the North Sea, to which it gives name. Lat. 64.35. N. 
Ion. ii. 25. E. 
NAM 
NAM’SLAW, a towm of Silefia, in the principality of 
Brellaw', withaftrong caftle, fituated among moraffes, on 
the river Weyda: twelve miles fouth-eaft of Oels, and 
twenty-feven eaft-fouth-eaft of Brellau. Lat. 51. 3. N. 
Ion. 17. 45. E. 
NAM'UJOS, a town of Peru, in the diocefe of Truxillo: 
120 miles fouth-eaft of Chacaporas. 
NAMU'R, one of the catholic provinces of the king¬ 
dom of the Netherlands. The province or county of 
Namur conftituted, in the tenth century, a part of the 
county of Lomme, as alfo of the country of Arnau ; the 
former lay between the Meufe and the Sambre, the latter 
extended from the Sambre to the other fide of Gem- 
blours, along the Ornau. The firft count of Namur, con¬ 
cerning whom we have a certain knowledge, is Robert, 
fon to Berenger count of Lomme, to whom fucceeded 
his fon Albrecht, who died in the year 998. In 1189, 
the emperor Henry declared Baldwin count of Hai- 
nault, who was filler's fon to Henry count of Namur, 
and his appointed fucceflbr, margrave of the empire. 
Count John III. who had no legitimate children, fold 
the province of Namur, in 1421, to Philip the Good, 
duke of Burgundy, for 132,000 crowns. On the death 
of Charles, the laft male heir of that houfe, in 1477, part 
of his dominions paffed to Auftria by the marriage of his 
daughter with the archduke, and part was feized upon by 
the French. See France, vol. vii. p. 693. Afterwards 
the States General obtained confiderable portions of it, 
as a barrier. During the revolutionary war, the whole 
province was entirely conquered by the French; and it 
then became the chief part of the department of the 
Sambre and Meufe, which formed one of the eighteen 
new departments called the “ Re-united Country." Of 
this department, however, and fixteen others, the French 
nation was deprived by the peace of 1815; and it now 
forms a province of the newly-erefted Kingdom of the 
Netherlands. It is bounded by Brabant on the north, 
by Liege and Luxemburg (part of which was included in 
the French department of the Sambre and Meufe) on the 
call, and by Hainault on the fouth and weft ; being about 
twenty-eight miles long and eighteen broad. It is a fruit¬ 
ful country, abounding in corn and pafture, and has 
feveral good mines of iron and lead, with wood fuffic-ient 
for extracting them ; alfo a bituminous earth called liouillc 
from its oily nature. The Maefe or Meufe, the Sambre, 
and the Mehaigne, are its principal rivers. 
NAMU'R, a city of the Netherlands, and capital of the 
above province, fituated in a valley, at the conflux of the 
Meufe and the Sambre ; the greater part on the right fide 
of the Sambre, between two hills. It is laid to take its 
name from an idol called Nam, fuppofed to be Neptune. 
The city was defended by a very ftrong caftle, fituated 
on a fliarp rock on the oppofite fide of the Sambre ; which 
caftle was defended by Fort William, and many other 
very confiderable forts, fo as to make it almoft impreg¬ 
nable. In the year 1692, Louis XIV. being mortified at 
the defeat of his fleet off la Hogue, determined to lay 
fiege to Namur; and, having reviewed his army, which 
amounted to 120,000 men, he inverted it on both fides 
the Sambre with one half of his army, while the other 
covered the fiege, under the command of the duke of 
Luxemburg. The prince of Brabamjon commanded the 
garrifon, which confilled of 9000 men. The place was 
well lupplied, and the governor knew that king William 
would make ftrong efforts for its relief; notwithftanding 
which, the affailants carried on their attacks with fuch 
vigour, that in feven days after the trenches were opened 
the town capitulated, and the garrifon retired into the 
citadel. King William, being joined by the troops of 
Brandenburg and Liege, advanced to the Mehaigne, at 
the head of 100,000 effective men, and encamped within 
cannon-fhot of Luxemburg’s army, which lay on the 
other fide of the river. That general, however, had 
taken fuch precautions, that the king of England could 
not interrupt the fiege, nor attack the French lines, with¬ 
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