NAP 
NAP 
now the property of the marquis of Cholmondeley, whofe 
chief refidence is fituated at Malpas, about five or fix 
miles further to the eaftward. See vol. xiv. p. an.— 
Crewe-hall, the feat of lord Crewe, lies to the weft of 
Nantwich ; and js a very fine fpecimen of the architefture 
of the 17th century. This manfion was garrifoned for 
the parliament at the commencement of the civil wars; 
but was taken, after an obllinate reliftance, by the royal 
army under lord Byron, in 164.3. A view ot a curious 
ftaircafe in this houfe, with a hiftory and defcription of 
the building, are publifned in Britton’s Architedhiral 
Antiquities of Great Britain, vol. ii.—Doddington-caftle, 
which ftands four miles to the fouth of the town, is alfo 
remarkable for having been feveral times befieged and 
taken during the fame unfortunate era. Beauties of Eng¬ 
land and Wales, vol. ii. Wilkes's Briti/h Diredory, vol. iv. 
NANTZ', a town of France, in tiie department of the 
Aveiron : twelve miles eaft of Milhau. 
NANU'I, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak: 
fifty-four miles north-eait of Ifpahan. 
NANZOO', a town of Burmah: fixteen miles weft of 
Ava. 
NAOT'LAN, a town of Mexico. See Almeria, vol. i. 
p. 358. 
NAOU'AI, the furname of Mold Eddin Alou Zaharia 
Jahia Ben Scharaf, a mufitilman doff or of the left of 
Schafei’, who wrote many works by which he acquired 
great celebrity. He was a native of Naoua, a fmall town 
within the jurifdiftion of the city of Damafcus, of which 
place he became an inhabitant at the age of thirteen, or, 
according to fome authors, at the age of nineteen ; this 
is the more probable, as it was at this early period of life 
he was created doftor of law. The muflulmen call him 
Imam abel Zamanehi, or the Gi'eat Imam of his age; and 
they fpeak of him as a doffor intimately converfant in 
the knowledge of religion, who lived retired from the 
world, in the practice of all the duties of piety; who was 
thoroughly inftru&ed in traditions, and a great mailer 
of jurifprudence. He died at Damafcus in the year of 
the Hegira 676, or 1298 of the Chriftian era. He was 
buried at his native place, where he received the honours 
of faintfhip. He was author of, 1. Treatifes on Jurifpru¬ 
dence. a. A Treatife on Traditions. 3. On the Funda¬ 
mental Principles of the Mahometan Religion ; and other 
pieces. He is fometimes referred to as “ the doctor in 
traditions of the city of Damafcus.” Gen. Biog. 
NAOU'R, a town of Nubia, on the Nile: fifteen miles 
north-eaft of Mofcho. 
NAOU'RS, a town of France, in the department of 
the Somme: nine miles north of Amiens, and eight 
fouth of Doulens. 
NAP, f [from hnappian, Sax. to fleep.] Slumber; a 
fhort fleep. A word ludicroufly ufed.—Mopfa fat lwal- 
lovving of fleep with open mouth, making fuch a noife, 
as nobody could lay the ftealing of a nap to her charge. 
Sidney. 
The fun had long fince in the lap 
Of Thetis taken out his nap. Hudilras. 
Down; villous fubftance : [hnoppa, Sax.]—Plants,though 
they have no prickles, have a kind of downy or velvet 
rind upon their leaves ; which down or nap cometh of a 
fubtil fpirit in a foft or fat fubftance. Bacon. 
Ah ! where mull needy poet feek for aid. 
When dull: and rain at once his coat invade; 
His only coat! where duft confus’d with rain 
Roughens the nap, and leaves a mingled ftain. Swift. 
A knap; a protuberance ; the top of a hill: [gnypa, Icel. 
cnasp, Sax.]—Between this intrenchment and the inner- 
fflolt one, is no fpace of ground at all, but only a deep 
trench and a high vallum, including a large level piece of 
grouird, which is higher than any other part of this forti¬ 
fication, it being the nap of the hill. Careiu's Survey of 
Cornwall. 
527 
To NAP, t\ n. To fleep; to be drowfy or fecure; to be 
fupinely carelefs.—What is ferioufly related by Helmont, 
that foul linen, ftopt in a veffel that hath wheat in it, will 
in twenty-one days’ time turn the wheat into mice; 
without conjuring, one may guefs to have been the phi- 
lofophy and information of fome houfewife, who had not 
fo carefully covered her wheat, but that the mice could 
come at it, and were there taken napping juft when they 
had made an end of their good cheat. Bentley. 
See how he nappetk, fee, for cockes bones, 
As he wold fallen from his horfe atones. Chaucer. 
NAP'-TAKING, / Surprife ; feizure on a fudden; 
unexpefled onfet, like that made on men alleep.— Nap- 
takings, affaults, fpoilings, and firings, have in our fore¬ 
fathers’ days, between us and France, been common. 
Carew. 
NAP of GRAY'LAND, a cape on the weft coaft of 
the ifiand of Yell. Lat. 60. 36. N. Ion. 1.31.W. 
NAPABEI'CHIC, a town of Mexico, in the province 
of New Bifcay : 160 miles north-weft of Parral. 
NAPACA'R, a town of the ifiand of Calpenteen, in 
the Indian Sea. Lat. 7. 56. N. Ion. 79. 48 E. 
NAPyE'A, f [from Napceec, nymphs of the woods. 
See the next article.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
dioecia, order monadelphia ; or clafs monadelphia, order 
polyandria; natural order of columniferae, (malvaceae, 
Ju/f.') Generic Charafters—I. Male. Calyx : perian- 
thium bell-fhaped, five-cleft, round, permanent. Corolla: 
petals five, oblong, concave, patulous, convex with ob¬ 
long claws. Stamina: filaments very many, capillary, of 
a middling length, connected in a column; anthers 
roundilh, comprefled. Piltillum : germenconical, minute; 
ftyie cylindric, ten-cleft, capillary; ltigmas none. Pericar- 
pium : abortient. II. Female on a diftimSt individual. 
Calyx and corolla: as in the male. Stamina : filaments as 
in the male, butfhorter; antherae fmall, effete. Piftiilum: 
germen conical; ftyie as in the male, longer than the 
ftamens; ftigmas blunt. Pericarpium : capfulesten, con¬ 
verging into an ovate form, fharpifh, awnlefs. Seeds; 
folitary, kidney-form.— EJfential Churader. Calyx five- 
cleft; petals five. Male. Stamina monadelphous, very 
many, fertile; ftyles feveral, barren. Female. Stamina 
monadelphous, very many, barren ; ftyles feveral, longer 
than the ftamens; caplules orbicular, depi’effed, text- 
celled ; feeds folitary. 
There are but two fpecies, which Schreber, following 
Cavanilles, has united to Sida, to which they are vexy 
nearly allied. But we may thus, as has been before re¬ 
marked, thruft all the plants of every natural order into 
one genus. Befides the circumftance of having fertile 
and barren hermaphi'odite flowers on diftiubt individuals, 
the petals are not oblique, the pedicel is not jointed, and 
the calyx is wider at the bale. Gaertner remai-ks, that 
Nupaea differs from Sida in having more than one capfule, 
and a manifeft common receptacle; from Abutilon in 
having only one feed in each capfule, and that not clearly 
valved. 
1. Napaea laevis,' or fmooth napaea : peduncles naked, 
fmooth, and even ; leaves lobed, fmooth. Root peren¬ 
nial, fi-equently creeping. Stems fmooth, about four feet 
high. Leaves alternate, upon pretty long flender foot- 
ftalks, deeply cut into three lobes, which end in acute 
points, and are regularly ferrate ; thofe on the lower part 
of theftem are near four inches long, and almoft as much 
in breadth, but they diminilh gradually to the top of the 
ftem. At the bafe of the leaf comes out the peduncle, 
about three inches long, dividingat top into three fmaller, 
each fuftaining one white flower, fmaller than in the 
fecond fort, with a longer column of ftamens, theantherte 
ftancling out beyond the corolla. Linnaeus fays, that 
the leaves are cordate, five-lobed, acuminate, fiat; and 
that the peduncles have three or four flowers. 
2. Napaea fcabra, or rough napaea: peduncles invo- 
lucred, angular; leaves palmate, rugged. Root perennial, 
compoled 
