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frigid or infipid, to the hardy and inflamed imaginations 
of the eaft. War bur ton. 
There funk Thalia, nervelefs, faint, and dead. 
Had no| her filter Satire held her head. Pope's Dnnciad. 
NER'VI, a town of Genoa : five miles eaft-fouth-eafl 
of Genoa. 
NERVIEU'X et GRENIE'R, a town of France, in 
the department of the Rhone and Loire: ten miles north 
of Montbrifon. 
NER'VII, a warlike people of Belgic Gaul, who conti¬ 
nually upbraided the neighbouring nations for fubmitting 
to the power of the Romans. They attacked Julius Cae- 
far, and were totally defeated. Their country forms the 
modern province of Hainault. 
NERVINES, _/! Medicines for the nerves. 
NER'VIO, a river of Spain, in the province of Rifcay, 
called by the natives Ybai-gabal, which paffes by Bilboa, 
and runs into the fea two miles below that town. 
NERU'KA, a port in the ifland of Cape Breton, where 
the French had a fettlement. 
NER'ULUM, in ancient geography, an inland town of 
Lucania; now Lugo Negro. 
NERVOS'ITY, f. Strength; vigour; nervoufnefs. 
Bailey. 
NERVOUS, adj. [nervofus, Lat.] Full of nerves.—We 
may imagine what acerbity of pain muft be endured by 
our Lord by the piercing his hands and feet, parts very 
nervous, and exquifitely fenfible. Barrow. —Well ftrung ; 
ftrong; vigorous.—As “ fine nervis effe” is a phrafe for 
debility, fo to be nervous is taken to be valid and ftrong. 
Water lions on Fortejcue, 1663. 
What nervous arms he boafts, how firm his tread. 
His limbs how turn’d. Pope's Odyjfey. 
Relating to the nerves 3 having the feat in the nerves: 
The venal torrent, murm’ring from afar, 
Wliifper’d no peace to calm this nervous war j 
And Philomel, the firen of the plain, 
Sung foporifick unifons in vain. Harte. 
Having weak or difeafed nerves.—Poor, w'eak, nervous, 
creatures. C/ieyne. 
NERVOUSLY, adv. With ftrength ; with force.—He 
thus ncrvoujly deferibes the ftrength of cuftom. War ton's 
FUJI. E. P. 
NERVOUSNESS, f Vigour; ftrength.—If there had 
been epithets joined with the other fubftantives, it would 
have weakened the nervoujhefs of the fentence. Dr. Warton's 
Eff. on Pope. 
NERVY, adj. Strong; vigorous. Not in life: 
Death, that dark fpirit, in his nervy arm doth lie, 
Which being advanc’d, declines, and then men die. Sliakefp. 
NES, a river of Denmark, in the ifland of Zealand, 
which runs into the Baltic four miles fouth of Neftved. 
NE'SA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Chorafan, 
on the borders of Charafm ; and ferving as a frontier-town 
between the two countries. In the year 1211, it w’as 
taken by Gengiz Khan, after a liege of about fifteen days. 
The next day the inhabitants were drawn out into a 
plain, and fhot with darts and arrows, like wild beafts; 
ftrangers, natives, and peafants, without diftindtion, to 
the amount of 70,000. It is two hundred miles north of 
Herat, and 220 fouth-weft of Samarcand. 
NESAC'TUM, in ancient geography, a town of Iftria, 
at the mouth of the Arfia ; now Caft cl Nuovo. 
NES'BIT (Thomas), a Scotch antiquary, the fon of the 
Jord-prefident Nefbit, was born at Edinburgh in 1672. 
He was author of an excellent book on Heraldry, and a 
Vindication of Scottifh Antiquities, which is laid to be 
ftill in MS. in the advocate’s library at Edinburgh. He 
died in 1725. 
NES'BIT’s HAR'BOUR, a harbour on the coaft of 
New Britain, in North America, where, in 1752, the 
Moravians formed a fettlement; but, being either ex« 
NES 
pelled or killed, a fecond attempt was made in 1762 un¬ 
der the protection of the Britifh government, favoured by 
the Efquimaux, and fucceeded. 
NES'CIENCE, f. [from nej'cio, Lat.] Ighorance; the 
ftate of not knowing.— Not vincible ignorance, or of 
things he might know, but invincible ; not privative ig¬ 
norance, or of things he ought to know, but mere nej~ 
cience ; in brief, ignorance : fimple ignorance, and not 
finful ignorance. Waif all's Life of Chr. 1615.—Many of 
the molt accomplifhed wits of all ages have refolved their 
knowledge into Socrates his fum total; and, after all their 
pains in queft of fcience, have fat down in a profefled 
nefcience. Glanville's Scepfis. 
NES'CIGUS, adj. Ignorant, unknowing. Afh. 
NES'COPECK, a mountain of Pennfylvania, on the 
coaft of the Sufquehanna River. 
NES'COPECK CREE'K, a river of Pennfylvania, 
which runs into the Sufquehanna in lat. 4.1. 3. N. Ion. 76. 
17. W. 
NE'SENBACH, a river of Wurtemberg, which paffes 
by Stuttgard, and runs into the Neckar near Cronftadt. 
NESH, adj. [nepc, Sax.] Soft; tender; eafily hurt. 
Skinner. The word is ufed in feverai parts of England, 
fometimes with the pronunciation of naijh or najh; and it 
is old in our language.—For love his herte is tendre and 
nefshe. Chaucer's Court of Love. —The nefh tops of the 
young hazel. Crowe's Lewefdon Hill. 
NESIGO'DA, a lake of Silefia, in the principality of 
Oels: eight miles weft of Militfch. 
NESIRBAD', a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan : fixty-nine 
miles fouth-fouth-eaft of Schiras. 
NE'SIS, in ancient geography, no w Nifita, an ifland on 
the coaft of Campania, famous for afparagus. 
NESLE, a town of France, in the department of the 
Somme : ten miles fouth of Peronne, and twenty-five eaft 
of Amiens. Lat. 50. 12. N. Ion. 3. o. E. 
NESLE, a town of Egypt, on the fide of a canal, in a 
country remarkable for the forwardnefs of the harveft. 
NES'LOU, a fmall ifland in the Perfian Gulf: 180 miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Ormuz. 
NES'MIEL, a town of Hungary: fix miles fouth-eaft of 
Comorn. 
NES'PA, a town of Mexico, in the province of Me- 
choacan, at the mouth of a river which runs into the 
Pacific Ocean in lat. 18.50.N. Ion. 103. 36. W. 
NESPEREI'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Galicia: twelve miles north of Ttiy. 
NESS, a termination added to an adjective to change 
it into a fubftantive, denotingyZnte or quality ; as, poifonous , 
poifonoujhefs ; turbid, turbidnejs; lovely, lovelincfs; from 
niyye, Saxon.—Alfo the termination of many names of 
places where there is a headland or promontory; from 
neye. Sax. nez, Fr. a nofe. 
NESS, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of Aggerhuus: 
thirty-fix miles north-north-weft of Chriftiania. 
NESS, a river of Scotland, which runs from Loch Nefs 
to the Frith of Murray, a little below Invernefs. 
NESS (Loch). See Loch Ness, vol. xii. p. 865. See 
alfo the Monthly Magazine, vol. xlv. p. 213. where an 
attempt is made to account for its never freezing. 
NES'SA, a river of Germany, which runs into the 
Werra five miles north-weft of Eifenach. 
NES'SA, or Nesserland, an ifland in the north part 
of Pollart-bay, on the coaft of Eaft Friefland, a little to 
the louth-eaft of Emden. Lat. 53. 18.N. Ion. 6. 59. E. 
NES'SELROD, a town of the duchy of Berg: three 
miles fouth of Solingen. 
NES'SELWANG, a town of Bavaria, in the bifliopric 
of Augfburg : eleven miles fouth-eaft of Kempten, and 
forty-five fouth of Augfburg. 
NESSUA'R, a town of Hindooftan, in Allahabad : nine 
miles weft of Gazypour. 
NES'SUS, in fabulous hiftory, a celebrated Centaur, fon 
oflxionand a Cloud. He offered violence to Dejanira, 
whom Hercules had entrufted to his care, with orders to 
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