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flowered; florets of the margin female and fertile; re¬ 
ceptacle briftly; down one. 
Nauenburgia trinervata, the only fpecies. Stem gla¬ 
brous, branched ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, ferrate, three- 
nerved, glabrous; flowers axillary, folitary, peduncled, 
yellow. Inhabits South America; and refembles the 
genus Brotera. Shrad. Journal, 1S00. 
NAU'ENHOF, a town of Saxony, in the circle of 
Leiptic : l'even miles weft of Grimma, and eight eaft of 
Leipfic. Lat. 51. 15. N. Ion. 12. 31. E. 
NA'VER, or Navern, a river of Scotland, which rifes 
from Loch Naver, and runs into the North Sea in lat. 58. 
28. N. Ion. 4. 2. W. 
NA'VES, a town of France, in the department of the 
Correze: three miles north of Tulle. 
NA'VESINK HAR'BOUR, a port on the coaft of New 
Jerfey : five miles north-weft of Shrewftmry. 
NA'VESTOCK, a village in Effex, near Brentwood : 
four miles from Ongar. Here is the feat of earl Walde- 
grave. 
NAV'ETTE, / in botany, the name by which moft of 
the European nations call the Braflica napus, the plant 
from the feeds of which the oil which we call rape-oil, and 
the French and others navctte-oil, is exprefied. The plant 
is cultivated in many parts of England, and in other coun¬ 
tries, for the fake of the ieed ; the oil drawn from this is 
ufed by many artificers, and is of a fine yellow colour; 
and the fmell is not oftenlive. The cake remaining after 
the exprefiion of the oil retains, like that of muftard, the 
acrimony of the leeds. 
NA'VEW, / [n/tpus, Lat. navet, Fr. a turnip.] Rape 
or cole-feed. See Brassica napus, vol. iii. 
NA'VEZ, a river of France, which joinsthe Clarence, 
to form the Robek, about a mile from St. Venant. 
NAU'FRAGE, f [Fr. from naufragium, Lat.] Ship¬ 
wreck.—Guilty of the ruin and navfrage and periihing 
of infinite fubjefts. Bacon's Speech at taking his Place in 
Chancery. 
NAU'FRAGOUS, adj. Caufing fiiipwreck.—That tem- 
peftuous and oft naufragous lea, wherein youth and hand- 
fonienefs are commonly tolled with no lefs hazard to the 
body than the foul. Bp. Taylor. 
NAUGAMUN'GLUM, a town of Hindooftan, in My- 
fore : twenty-eight miles north of Seringapatam. 
NAU'GARDTEN, or Neu'carten, a town of Hinder 
Pomerania: fifty miles weft of New Stettin, and ftxteen 
north of Stargard. Lat. 53.42. N. Ion. 15. 5. W. 
NAUGATACK', a river of Connecticut, which joins 
the Houfatonic to form the Stratford. 
NAUGHT, adj. [naht, napbrc, Sax. that is, ne aught, 
not any thing.] Bad ; corrupt; worthlefs : it is now hard¬ 
ly ufed but in ludicrous language.—With them that are 
able to put a difference between things naught and things 
indifferent in the church of Rome, we are yet at contro- 
verfy about the manner of removing that which is naught. 
Hooker. 
Thy filter's naught: Oh Regan ! fhe hath tied 
Sharp-tooth’d unkindnefs like a vulture here. Shahefpeare. 
NAUGHT,/. Nothing. This is commonly, though 
improperly, written nought. See Aught, Nought, and 
Ought. 
Be you contented 
To have a fon fet your decrees at nought. 
To pluck down juftice from your awful bench. Shakefp. 
NAU'GHTILY, ado. Wickedly ; corruptly. 
NAU'GHTINESS, f. Wickednefs ; badnefs. Slight 
wickednefs or perverfenefs, as of children.—No remem¬ 
brance of naughtinrfs delights but mine own; and methinks 
the accufing his traps might in fome manner excufe my 
fault, which certainly I loth to do. Sidney. —Idlenefs, the 
bane of body and mind, the nurfe of naughtinefs. Burton's 
Anat of Mel. 
NAU'GHTLY, adv. Badly 5 corruptly : 
2 ■ 
Thus did I for want of better wit, 
Becaufe my r parents naughtly brought me up. Mir. for Mag. 
NAU'GHTON, a town of Scotland, in the county of 
Fife : fix miles north of Cupar. 
NAU'GHTON, a village in Suffolk, eaft of Bildefton. 
NAU'GHTY, adj. The fame with Naught. Bad; 
wicked ; corrupt.-—A prince of great courage and beauty, 
but foftered up in blood by his naughty father. Sidney. 
How far that little candle throws his beams. 
So fliines a good deed in a naughty world. Shahefpeare. 
It is now feldom ufed but in ludicrous cenfure: 
If gentle flumbers on thy temples creep, 
But, naughty man, thou doll not mean to fleep, 
Betake thee to thy bed. Drydcn. 
NAU'HEIM, a town of Germany, in the county of 
Hanau Munzenberg, with fait-works: thirteen mile* 
north of Hanau, and one north of Fridberg. 
NA'VIA, a town of Spain, in Afturia, near thefea; 
thirty-fix miles north-weft of Oviedo. 
NA'VIA de SUAR'NA, a town of Spain, in Galicia: 
twenty miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Mondonedo. 
NAVIC'ULA, / in old records, a fmall difh to hold 
frankincenfe before it was put into the confer. A fmall 
fliip. 
NAVIC'ULAR, adj. [navicularis, Lat.] In anatomy, 
the third bone in each foot that lies between the aftra- 
galus and ofla cuneiformia. 
NAVIDAD', a town of Mechoacan, in Mexico, with 
a harbour on the North Pacific Ocean : 156 miles weft of 
the city of Mexico. Lat. 18. 51. N. Ion. 111. 10, W. 
NAVI'ER (Pierre-Touffaint), an enlightened phyfician 
and chemilt in the eighteenth century, was born at Saint- 
Dizier, and praftifed at Chalons-fur-Marne, where he was 
very ferviceable to the country-people, efpecially in epi¬ 
demic difeales. He died in 1779. As a chemilt, this phy¬ 
fician rendered himfelf celebrated by his difeovery of 
nitrous ether, and of the method of uniting mercury with 
iron. Fie alio entered upon fome curious chemical re- 
fearches into the animal fluids in his “ Obfervations fur 
l’Amollifiement des Os,” 1755. He further wrote fome 
anatomical obfervations, particularly refpefting epidemic 
difeafes, entitled “ Dilfertation fur piuiieurs Maladies po¬ 
pulates qui ont regne depuis quelque tents a Chalons- 
iur-Marne,” 1753. Gen. Biog. 
NAV'IGABLE, adj. [Fr. from navigabilis, Lat.] Ca¬ 
pable of being palled by Ihips or boats.—The firft-peopled 
cities were all founded upon thefe navigable rivers or their 
branches, by which the one might give luccour to the 
other. Raleigh's Hiji. of the World. 
Almighty Jove furveys 
Earth, air, and ihores, and navigable feas. Drydcn. 
NAV'IGABLENESS, / Capacity to be palled in veflels. 
To NAV'IGATE, v. n. [ navi go , Lat.] To fail; to pals 
by water.—The Phoenicians navigated to the extremities 
of the weftern ocean. Arbuthnot on Coins. 
To NAV'IGATE, v. a. To pafs by Ihips or boats.— 
Drufus, the father of the emperor Claudius, was the firft 
who navigated the northern ocean. Arbuthnot on Coins. 
NAVIGA'TION, f. The aft or praftice of palling by 
water.—When Pliny names the Pceni as inventors of navi¬ 
gation, it muft be underftood of the Phoenicians, from 
whom the Carthagenians are defeended. Arbuthnot on 
Coins. 
Rude as their Ihips was navigation then, 
No ufeful com pais or meridian known ; 
Coafting, they kept the land within their ken. 
And knew no north but when the pole-ftar Ihone. Dry den. 
Veflels of navigation : 
Though you untie the winds, and let them fight 
Againft the churches ; though the yefty waves 
Confound and 1 wallow navigation up. Shakefp. Macbeth. 
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