CoS N- E B 
building (probably deigned to reprefent the abbey), has 
been preferved from deftru&ion, and is placed on the lawn, 
before Courtherbert-houfe, a fmall diftance from the mo- 
naftery. The ruins are extenfive, and the luxuriant man¬ 
tling of ivy in which they are enveloped, gives, them a 
very folemn and venerable afpedt. Weeds and briers now 
cover the fpot where the prieft difcharged the folemn 
duties of his fun&ion, and the fwelling note of the organ 
aided “ the frequent praifes of white-robed monks.” 
V/i llies's Britijh Dirtdory , vol. iv. 
The very-pidturelque village of Cadoxton is fituate 
on the fouth fide of the river Nidd, immediately oppofite 
the town of Neath. Its church, a plain and neat llruc- 
ture, lately repaired and beautified, is dedicated to St. 
Cadoc, an old Britilh faint of fome celebrity. In its 
chancel are feveral monuments of the ancient family of 
Williams of Dyffryn, in this parifh, one of which in¬ 
cludes in it a very long pedigree on copper of that family, 
in Englilh, which is a very curious fpecimen of Welflt 
pedigree. Some of the lhorter iflfcriptions, including a 
curious acroftic-epitaph on Role Williams, are inferred 
in the Gent. Mag.' for May 1816. 
NEATH, a river of South-Wales, which runs into the 
fea a little below Swanfea. 
NEATTME'RI, a town of Hindooftan, in Travancore : 
fifteen miles eaft of Anjenga. 
NE'ATLY, adv. Elegantly,. but without dignity ; 
fprucely.—I will never truif a man again for keeping his 
fword clean; nor believe he can' have every thing in him, 
by wearing his apparel neatly. Shakefpeare's All's well. 
To love an altar built, 
Of twelve vaft French romances neatly gilt. Pope. 
Cleanlily. — Whether there be any inftance of a ftate, 
wherein the people, living neatly and plentifully, did not 
afpire to wealth ? Bp. Berkeley's Querift. 
NE'ATNESS, f. Sprucenefs; elegance without dignity. 
—Pelagius carped at the curious neatnefs of men’s apparel. 
Hooker. —Cleanlinefs.—That no hardnefs of heart do fteal 
upon me, under fhew of more neattiejs of confidence than 
is caufe. Bacon to K. James. 
NE'ATRESS,/. She who takes care of cattle: 
I knew the lady very well, but worthlefis of fiuch praifie, 
The neatrejfe faid ; and mufe I do, a fliepherd thus Ihould 
blaze 
The coate of beau tie. Warner's Albion's England. 
NEAU'PHLE le CHATEAU', a town of France, in 
the department of the Seine and Oife: five miles north- 
eaft of Montfort. 
NEB, a river of the Ifle of Man, which runs into the 
fea at Peel-town. 
NEB, J'. [nebbe, Sax.] Nofie; beak; mouth. Retained 
in the north.—Take a glafs with a belly and a long neb. 
Bacon. 
How die holds up the neb, the bill, to him ! 
And arms her with the boldnefs of a wife. 
Shakefpcare's Winter's Tale. 
[In Scotland.] The bill of a bird. See Nib. 
NEBA'IOTH, [Heb. words.] A man’s name. 
NE'BAT, [Heb. a beholder.] A man’s name. 
NEB'BIO, or Ne'bio, a town of the ifland of Corfica, 
and the fee of a-bilhop j in ruins : nine miles fouth-weft 
of Baftia. 
NEBDAN'SKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the province of 
Uftiug, on the Sola : twenty-four miles fouth of Uft Si- 
fpHk. 
NE'BEL, or Naelum, a mufical inftrument among the 
Jews. See p. 34.9. 
NEBER'YBIS, a town of Poland, in the palatinate of 
JGev : fixty miles fouth of Bialacerkiew. 
NEB'FLEUR, or Frur, a fmall ifiand in the Perfian 
gulf j fometimes alfo called Tavern. Lat. 26. 10. N. Ion. 
54- 20. E. 
NE'BI A'BEL, a village of Syria, where they pretend 
4 
NEB 
Abel was buried by his brother Cain: fixteen miles north- 
well: of Damafcus. 
NE'BI EI'-NAB, a town of the Arabian Irak, on the 
Euphrates : fix miles fouth of Helleh. 
NE'BI SHI'IT, a village of Syria, in which the inha¬ 
bitants pretend to fliow the tomb of the patriarch Seth : 
fixteen miles north-north-weft of Damafcus. 
NE'BI TA'RAN, a town of the Arabian Irak: five 
miles fouth-weft of Mendeli. 
NE'BIO, a town of European Turkey, in the Morea : 
twenty miles weft of Militra. 
.NEBITAU', a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Pil- 
fen : five miles fouth of Teufing, and twenty-two weft- 
north-well of Pilfen. 
NE'BO, [Heb. one that fpeaks.] In ancient geogra¬ 
phy, a town of the tribe of Reuben, which, being in the 
vicinity of the land of Moab, was taken poffeffion of by 
the Moabites, and belonged to them, as we learn from 
the prophet Jeremiah.—Alfo, a town of the tribe of Ju¬ 
dah, about eight miles from Hebron, which appears to 
have been a defert in the time of Eufebius and Jerome.— 
Alfo, a mountain placed by Mofes in the Laud of Moab, 
though feated on the other fide of the Arnon, and confe- 
quently in the kingdom of Sihon. On this mountain 
Moles died. Dent, xxxii. 49. 
NE'BO, or Nabo, a deity of the Babylonians, who 
polfeifed the next rank to Bel. It is mentioned by Ifaiah, 
ch. xlvi. 1. Voffius apprehends that Nebo was the moon, 
and Bel the fun ; but Grotius fuppofes that Nebo or Nabo 
was fome celebrated prophet of the country, which opi¬ 
nion is confirmed by the etymology of the name, fignify- 
ing, according to Jerome, “ one that prefides over pro¬ 
phecy.” Moll of the Babylonilh kings bore the name of 
that god joined to their own 5 as, Nabonalfar, Nebuchad¬ 
nezzar, &c. 
NEBOU'SAN, before the revolution, a province of 
France, of which St. Gauden’s was the capital: now the 
department of the Upper Garonne. 
NE'BRA, a town of Saxony, in Thuringia : twelve 
miles north-well of Naumburg, and four fouth of Quer- 
furt. Lat. 51. 18. N. Ion. 11.45. E. 
NEBRIS'SA, in ancient geography, now Lebrixa, ?. 
town of Spain, in Boetica, towards the north in afcend- 
ing the river Bcetis. See Lebrixa, vol. xii. p. 430. 
NEB'STICH, a town of Moravia: nine miles north- 
eaft of Brunn. 
NEBUCHADNEZ'ZAR. See Nabuchodonosor, p. 
500. 
NEB'ULA, J. [Latin.] It is applied to appearances 
like a cloud in the human body; as alfo to films upon 
the eyes. 
Nebul/e, in aftronomy, a term applied to thofe fixed 
ftars, which exhibit a dim hazy light, being lefs than 
thofe of the fixth magnitude ; and therefore lcarcely, or 
not at all, vifible to the naked eye, to which, if feen at 
all, they appear like dulky fpecks, or clouds, through 
telefcopes: hence thename. See the article Astronomy, 
vol. ii. p. 344-349. 
NEBULE', or Neb'uly, udj. See Heraldry, vol. ix. 
P-423- 
. NEBULO'SE, adj. Cloudy, mifty. 
NEBULOS'ITY,/; The appearance caufed by nebulae, 
or nebulous ftars.—The changes I have obferved in the 
great milky nebulojity of Orion, twenty-three years ago, 
and which have alfo been noticed by other aftronomers, 
cannot permit us to look upon this phenomenon as arif- 
ing from immenfely-diftant regions of fixed ftars. Even 
Huygens, the difcoverer of it, was already of opinion 
that, in viewing it, we faw, as it were, through an open¬ 
ing into a region of light. Much more would he be con¬ 
vinced now, when changes in fts fhape and luffire have 
been feen, that jts light is not, like that of the milky 
way, compofed of ftars. To attempt even at a guefs at 
what this light may be would be prefumptuous. If it 
ftiould be furmifed, for inftance, that this nebulofity is of 
