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Al-MenzeTi and AIc-Mcdeni. Nadir Eddin died in the 
year 674 of the Hegira, or A. D. 1254., according to fome 
writers; hut others afiign his death to the year 687 of the 
Hegira, or A D. 1269. D'Herbelot's JBibl. Orient. 
NASSIRABAD', a town of Hindooftan, in Oude: 
twenty-five miles north of Manickpour. 
NASSIT'ZA, a town of Sclavonia: feventeen miles 
north ofBrod,and twenty-five weft of Eizek. 
NASSO'GNE, late a town of France, in the department 
of the (now difi’evered) Sambre and Meule, containing 
801 inhabitants. 
NASS'UCK, a town of Hindooflan, in Gnzerat : 128 
miles welt of Aurangabad, and ninety-five fouth-fouth- 
vveft of Surat. Lat. 19. 50. N. Ion. 73. 49. E. 
NASSUR ABAD', a town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad; 
fix miles fiouth of Jionpour. 
NAST, a famous arrift in porcelain, was born in 1754 
at Ragalburg in Stiria, but fpent the greateft part of his 
life in France. When he came to Paris for the purpofe 
of feeking a livelihood, he had neither money nor friends; 
and could not even fpeak the language of the people on 
whom his exiftence now depended. In this deplorable 
fituation he fell fick immediately after his arrival, and was 
carried to the Hotel Dieu, where for the firlt time he found 
real comfort in a foreign land. The pious filters, who 
performed the duty of nurfes in that inllitution, received 
the ftrangerlike a brother: their kind attentions operated 
fo beneficially on both mind and body, that he fpeedily 
recovered, and quitted the hofpital with feelings of the 
warmeft gratitude. He had now to think of the means of 
earning his bread. He had previoufly learned no trade, 
but poft’efted a capacity for any thing. Chance brought 
him acquainted with a countryman of his, who was a 
journeyman ladler; and Nall became a fadler too. He 
fioon found this employment too mechanical; his ingeni¬ 
ous mind required a higher and a wider fphere. A fecond 
accident gained him accefs to a porcelain-mannfaCtory at 
Vincennes, where he obtained work. From this time he 
devoted all his thoughts to the manufacture of porcelain ; 
and ftudied with the greateft aftiduity the chemical and 
mechanical procefles belonging to it; and, as it could not 
efcape him that the forms of porcelain are intimately con¬ 
nected with and dependent on tafte for the arts, he felt 
the neceftity of learning to draw ; and therefore fpent the 
daily hours of reft which his employment allowed him, in 
attending a drawing-fehool where gratuitous inftruCtion 
was given. In like manner he exercifed himfelf in turn¬ 
ing and modelling, that he might make himfelf complete 
mafter of his trade. At the lame time he made chemical 
experiments, and by incelfant diligence foon became a 
Ikilful workman. His laboratory was a wretched garret, 
which ferved him likewife for a lodging; and he lived 
upon little elfe than bread and water. His productions 
fell into the hands ofperfons capable of appreciating their 
merits. M. Prouft, the eminent chemilt, one of his early 
patrons, formed a correCt notion of his great inventive 
talents. Being commiftiorred by the Spanilh ambaflador 
to look out for a perfon to eftablilh a porcelain-manufac¬ 
tory in Spain, he immediately thought of Naft, and made 
him the offer. Naft accepted it, on condition that he 
Ihould be paid for his little (lock, which he eftimated at 
from fifteen to eighteen hundred francs, and allowed his 
travelling expenles. The Spanilh government difplayed 
in this negociation the dilatorinels inherent in the na¬ 
tional character. Several months elapfed before the con- 
fent of the court of Madrid arrived. Meanwhile the in- 
duftrious Naft had confiderably increafed the value of his 
flock, and now demanded twice as much for it as before. 
It was necefiary to write again to Madrid on the fubjeCt. 
Several months again palled; and, when the Spanilh go¬ 
vernment at length fignifted its acquiefcence, Nall’s fitu¬ 
ation at Paris had fo far improved, and opened to him fo 
flattering a profpeCt, that he determined not to turn his 
back upon it, but to remain where he was. This prudent 
refolution he never had caufe to repent, Nall’s porcelain 
Vol. XVI. No. 113S. 
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foon became celebrated in France, and in foreign coun¬ 
tries ; it was exported to every part of Europe, and at 
the public exhibitions never failed to excite univerfal 
admiration. Several medals were adjudged to him by 
the government; and he. was admitted a member of the 
Society for the Encouragement of the Arts at Paris. To 
M. Naft, indeed, France owed the advantage of being able 
to obtain porcelain at a very low price, as well for com¬ 
mon ule as for every purpofe of luxury. He thus ob¬ 
tained a rapid and certain fide fot his wares, and re.ifecl his 
ellablilhment to the rank of one of the greateft in Europe, 
Naft retained through life the induftry and frugality cha- 
rafteriltic of his nation, and behaved like a father to all 
his dependents. With the fruits of his induftry he pur- 
chafed a fine eftate a few miles from Paris. When bread 
was dear, he had the conlideration to allow the men fo 
much as they were obliged to pay for it above the ufual 
price. He confequently polfelfed the attachment of all 
his work-people; and it is not unlikely that his kind 
treatment of them contributed much to the flourilhing 
ftate of his concern. Hediedin 1817. 
NAS'TADT, a town of Weftphalia, in the county of 
Catzenelnbogen : eighteen miles fouth of Coblentz, and 
twenty-two north-w’eft of Mentz. Lat. 50. 10. N. Ion. 
7.48. E. 
NAS'TILY, itdv. [from nafty.~\ Dirtily; filthily ; nau- 
feoully.—The molt pernicious infection next the plague, is 
the fmell of the jail, when prifoners have been long and 
clofe and niijtily kept. Bacon's N.IJji. —Obfcenely; grofsly. 
NAS'TINESS,/ Dirt; filth.—This cauled the feditious 
to remain within their llation, which by reafon of the 
naftinefs of the beaftly multitude, might more fitly be 
termed a kennel than a Camp. Hayward. 
Haughty and huge as high Dutch bride, 
Such najiinejs and fo much pride 
Are oddly join’d by fate. Swift. 
Obfcenity; groflhefs of ideas.—Their naftinefs, their dull 
obfeene talk and ribaldry, cannot but be very r.aufeous 
and offenfive to any who does not baulk his own reafon, 
out of love to their vice. South. —A divine might have 
employed his pains to better purpofe, than in thenajlinefs 
of Plautus and Ariftophanes. Dryden. 
NASTISTAK', an ifiand of Ruffia, in the mouth of the 
Lena, about eighty miles in length and twenty in breadth, 
Lat. 71. 44. to 72. 50. N. Ion. 115.40. to 119. 34. E. 
NASTO'LA, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Tavaftland : forty-feven miles eaft of Tavallthus. 
NASTUR'TIUM. See Arabis, Cardamine, Coch- 
learia, Heliophila, Iberis, Lepidium, Myagrum, 
Panax, Sisymbrium, Thlaspi, and Vella. 
NAS'TUS, f in botany, a name borrowed by Juftieu 
from the antient Greeks, whofe v.a.Xu.y.oc raro?, however, 
is deferibed as having a folid Item, ufieful for making 
arrows; whereas the plant of Juftieu is no other than the 
bamboo, or Arundo bambos of Linnaeus, well known to 
have hollow Items and branches, on which its peculiar 
ufe, for many domeftic purpofes, greatly depends. Hence 
Retzius, finding this valuable plant a diftinCt genus from 
Arundo, called it Bambos, altered by Schreber into 
Bambusa. Gmelin, in his edition of Linnaeus, vol. ii. 
p. 579, has Bambus, and in the next page Nastus, with 
a ftrange mifconception of characters, for the very lame 
thing. Upon referring back to Arundo, vol. ii. we find 
that all the lpecies of bamboo then known are included 
in that article; but, for thofe who choofe to diltinguifli 
the bamboos more particularly from the reeds, the generic 
characters of the former are given under the word Bam¬ 
busa, in the lame volume. 
NAS'TY, adj. [m/Js, Germ, nat, Belg. nazzo, Franc, 
humid, wet; natjan, Goth, to wet.] Dirty; filthy; fordid; 
nauieous; polluted.—Sir Thomas More, in his anfwer to 
Luther, has thrown out the greateft heap of najly language 
that perhaps ever was put together. Atterbury. —A nice 
man is a man of nafly ideas. Swift. —Obfcer.e ; lewd. 
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