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Pertaining to the nose; formed or affected by the nose; as a nasal sound; a nasal letter.
1. A letter whose sound is affected by the nose.
2. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
1. Of or pertaining to the nose.
2. Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
1. An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
2. A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
3. Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
4. One of the nasal bones.
5. A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
The quality or state of being nasal.
The act of nasalizing, or the state of being nasalized.
1. To render nasal, as sound; to insert a nasal or sound in.
2. To utter words or letters with a nasal sound; to speak through the nose.
of Nasalize
In a nasal manner; by the nose.
2. Pessary made of wool or cotton, to raise the nose when compressed.
beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being.
1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.
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Nash
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NASH, Richard (1674-1761), better known as “Beau Nash,” was born at Swansea, 18th October 1674. He was descended from an old family of good position, but his father from straitened means had become partner in a glass business. Young Nash was educated at Caermarthen grammar school and at Jesus College, Oxford. He obtained a commission in the army, which, however, he soon exchanged for the study of law at the Middle Temple. “Here,” it is said, “he went to the very summit of second-class luxury,” and among “wits and men of pleasure” he came to be accepted as an authority in regard to dress, manners, and style. When the members of the Inns of Court entertained William III. after his accession, Nash was chosen to conduct the pageant. This duty he performed so much to the satisfaction of the king that he was offered knighthood, but he declined the honour, unless accompanied by a pension. As the king did not take the hint, Nash found it necessary to turn gamester. The pursuit of his calling led him in 1704 to Bath, where he had the good fortune almost immediately to succeed Captain Webster as master of the ceremonies. His qualifications for such a position were unique, and under his conventional authority reforms were introduced which rapidly secured to Bath a leading position as a fashionable watering-place. He drew up a new code of rules for the regulation of balls and assemblies, abolished the habit of wearing swords in places of public amusement, induced gentlemen to adopt shoes and stockings in parades and assemblies instead of boots, reduced refractory chairmen to submission and civility, and introduced a tariff for lodgings. Through his exertions a handsome assemblyroom was also erected, and the streets and public buildings were greatly improved. Nash ...adopted an outward state corresponding to his nominal dignity. He wore an immense white hat as a sign of office, and a dress adorned with rich embroidery, and drove in a chariot with six greys, laced lackeys, and French horns. Notwithstanding his vanity and impertinence, the tact, energy, and superficial cleverness of Nash won him the patronage and notice of the great, while the success of his ceremonial rule, as shown in the increasing prosperity of the town, secured him the gratitude of the corporation and the people generally. When the Act of Parliament against gambling deprived him of an easy though uncertain means of subsistence, the corporation granted him a pension of six score guineas a year, which, with the sale of his snuff boxes and other trinkets, enabled him to support a certain faded splendour till his death on February 3, 1761. He was honoured with a public funeral at the expense of the town.
A Life of Richard Nash, by Goldsmith, was published anonymously at London in 1762, has been frequently reprinted, and is now included in the editions of Goldsmith’s collected works. See also London Magazine, vol. xxxi., and a paper on ‘ ‘ The Monarch of Bath” in Blackwood’s Magazine, vol. xlviii.
NASH, Thomas (c. 1564-1601), poet, playwright, and pamphleteer, was one of the most notable literary celebrities in the brilliant last decade of the reign of Elizabeth. The exact years of his birth and death have not been ascertained; but from the fact that he proceeded B.A. (St John’s, Cambridge) in 1585 it has been conjectured that he was born about 1564, and his death was lamented in an epigram by Fitzgeoffrey in 1601. He tells us himself that his birthplace was Lowestoft. It would seem from a passage in one of his pamphlets that he travelled in Italy after leaving Cambridge, and then he followed the example of Greene and Marlowe, his fellow Cantabs, in trying to make a living by literature in London. Nash was really a journalist born out of due time; he frequently boasts of his power of writing “as fast as his hand can trot”; his style was brilliant and picturesque; he had a keen sense of the ridiculous, was quick in argument, and not without abundance of miscellaneous learning. In the circumstances, there being no market for his gifts, he fared like the other university wits who made the same premature venture at the time to “distil ink into gold,” struggled brilliantly for some years, and succumbed. It was as a “notable railer” both against individuals and against the vices and the absurdities of the time, as a man than whom none “used better or more bitter gall in ink,” that Nash made his reputation. His first effort was a preface to Greene’s Menaphon, in 1587. In this he made boisterous ridicule, with the arrogance of youth and high spirits, of current literature, laughing especially at the bombast of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, and promised to follow up his attack with an Anatomy of Absurditie, which appeared in 1589. Meantime the Marprelate tracts gave him another opening for ridicule, into which he rushed joyously, publishing in quick succession Plaine Percevait, Martin’s Month’s Mind, Pasquil in England, An Almond for a Parrot, Pasquil’s Apology. Then he edited Sidney’s poems, with a preface, in 1591. Pierce Penilesse, His Supplication to the Devill, published in 1592, at once shows his power as a gaily humorous critic of national manners and lets us into the secret of the hardness of his struggle to live by the pen. It seems to Pierce a monstrous thing that cautious brainless drudges and knaves wax fat “when as the seven liberal sciences and a good leg will scarce get a scholar bread and cheese.” A patron was what the man of letters wanted, and Pierce humorously begs for a trial, undertaking to make it worth a patron’s while. Nash’s complaints of destitution in this tract are sometimes taken too literally; it would seem that he had found a noble patron, and was living at his country seat in 1592, away from the plague in London, and writing his satirical masque Summer’s Last Will and Testament. In 1593 he tried his hand at a sermon, Christes Tears over Jerusalem, a really eloquent composition. In the preface to this, “not basely fear-blasted, or constraintively overruled, but purely pacificatory,” he holds out the hand of friendship to Gabriel Harvey, with whom he had begun a match in personal abuse, recorded in D’Israeli’s Quarrels of Authors. The overture was not accepted, and Nash resumed his “humorous objurgation” of the enemy. After Marlowe’s death he put the unfinished tragedy of Dido in shape for the stage, but he had no portion of Marlowe’s genius. In 1597 he was in trouble with the authorities for a play called the Isle of Dogs, which has not been preserved. The author retired to Yarmouth, and there wrote his last work Lenten Stuff (1599), nominally “in praise of a red herring,” but really a description of Yarmouth which would now make the fortune of a special correspondent.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 235
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Nashua
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NASHUA, a city of the United States, in Hillsborough county, New Hampshire, on hilly ground at the confluence of the Merrimac and the Nashua, 40 miles north-north-west of Boston by the Boston, Lowell, and Nashua Railroads. In 1803 the site was “a sandy plain covered with pine trees”; but after the formation of the Nashua Manufacturing Company in 1823 the village rapidly grew up, and by 1853 it was incorporated as a city. Its population increased from 10,543 in 1870 to 13,397 in 1880. The water-power of the Nashua river being rendered easily available by means of a canal 3 miles long and 8 feet deep, constructed in 1825-26, a great variety of industrial establishments are situated in the city. Besides the sheetings, shirtings, prints, and flannels manufactured by the original Nashua company and its younger rivals, iron goods, locks, edge tools, bedsteads, carpets, shuttles, bobbins, shoes, cards, glazed paper, are all produced on a large scale.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 236
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Nashville
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NASHVILLE, a city of the United States, capital and largest city of Tennessee, and seat of justice of Davidson county, stands on the Cumberland River (spanned there by a suspension bridge and a truss railway bridge with a “draw” 200 feet long), 200 miles above its junction with the Ohio, in 36° 10' N. lat. and 86° 49' W. long. Occupying a site of considerable irregularity, and dominated by the hill (558 feet above the sea) on which the capitol is built, Nashville on the whole presents a picturesque and attractive appearance. The capitol is an imposing stone edifice, erected in 1845 at a cost of nearly $1,000,000, and surmounted by a central tower 206 feet in height. Other public buildings deserving mention are the courthouse (1857), the market-house and city-hall (1855), the State penitentiary (1830), the State blind asylum (1850), the four universities, and two large female seminaries. Nashville University, incorporated as Davidson College in 1785, as Cumberland College in 1806, and under its present name in 1825, now embraces three distinct schools,— Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville Medical College, one of the largest in the Southern States, and the Normal College, established and endowed by the trustees of the Peabody Fund. Vanderbilt University was founded in 1872 by six conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in 1873 was named after Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York, who gave it $1,000,000. His son has given it about $250,000 additional. It has a fine group of buildings and 75 acres of land west of the city. In 1882 it had 51 instructors and 603 students. Fisk University, established in 1866 for the education of men of colour, and widely known through the Jubilee Singers, had 18 teachers and 424 students in 1882. The Tennessee Central ...(Methodist) College, likewise dating from 1866, is intended for coloured students, as is also the Roger Williams University (Baptist). The State library in the capitol had 27 000 volumes in 1882: and the Watkins Institute library occupies a building erected in 1882 at a cost of $130,000. Being the natural centre of a wide productive region, and well served by river and rail, Nashville has an extensive and rapidly growing trade, especially in cotton and tobacco. Its manufacturing establishments comprise three large cotton factories (34,000 spindles, 700 hands in 1882), saw-mills, grist-mills, planing factories, carriage factories, extensive furniture factories, distilleries, paper-mills, cotton-seed-oil mills, and stove foundries. The population was 5566 in 1830, 10,165 in 1850, 16,988 in 1860, 25,865 in 1870, and 43,350 in 1880.
Settled in 1780, Nashville received incorporation as a town in 1784 and as a city in 1806. It was not till 1843 that it became the capital of the State, though, with the exception of the period from 1815 to 1826, the legislature had met there from 1812. In February 1862 Nashville was evacuated by the Confederate General A. S. Johnston, and was held from that time by the Federal forces. The attempt made in December 1864 by the Confederate General Hood to recover the now strongly-fortified town resulted in the '‘battle of Nashville,” in which his army was completely routed by that of General G. H. Thomas.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 236
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Having a horn growing on the nose.
Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.
Having the shape of a nose.
The middle point of the nasofrontal suture.
Nasir khosrau
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NASIR KHOSRAU. Abù Mufn-ed-din Nâsir b. Khosrau, the first great didactic poet of Persia, was a descendant of the imâm ' Ali Ridâ, and was born, according to his own statement in one of his kasidas, 394 a.h. (1004 A.D.), at Kubâdiyân, near Balkh in Khorâsân. The first forty-two years of his life are obscure ; we learn from incidental remarks of his that he was a Sunnite, probably according to the Hanafite rite, well versed in all the branches of natural science, in medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and astrology, in Greek philosophy, and the interpretation of the Koran; that he had a comprehensive knowledge of many other philosophic systems and religious creeds professed in the East; and that he was, withal, much addicted to worldly pleasures, especially to excessive wine drinking, the renunciation of which forms a prominent topic in his later odes. He had studied Arabic, Turkish, Greek, the vernacular languages of India and Sind, and perhaps even Hebrew; he had visited Multân and Lahore, and been—probably in an official capacity—an eye-witness of the splendid Ghaznavide court under Sultân Mahmùd, Firdousi’s patron, and his son Mas'ιid. Later on he had chosen Merv for his residence, and was the owner of a house and garden there. When he first steps into the full light of history, in 437 a.h. (1045 a.d.), we see him in the position of a financial secretary and revenue collector of the Seljιik sultan Toghrulbeg, or rather of his brother Jâghirbeg, the emir of Khorâsân, who had conquered Merv in 1037. The introductory passages of the Safarndma, together with a number of verses in the above-mentioned kasida, which belongs to the same period, clearly manifest the peculiar state of mind in which Nâsir was at that time. Like Faust he had fathomed the ...depth of all human knowledge, like him he had passed through the whirlpool of passions and sensual pleasures, he had tried to drown his doubts and troubles in the wine cup, and yet he had only grown more and more dissatisfied with himself; nothing could quench his ever-increasing thirst for a higher intelligence, for a more profound comprehension of the Godhead, and the manifestations of the divine power in the universe. He had evidently reached the turning-point of his life, and, inspired by a heavenly voice (which he pretends to have heard in a dream), he abjured all the luxuries of life, and resolved upon a pilgrimage to the holy shrines of Mecca and Medina, hoping to find there the solution of all enigmas, and to return a thoroughly reformed man. The graphic description of this journey is contained in the Safarndma, a book that, quite apart from the personal interest we feel in the author, ranks high among the memoirs of travel as giving us the most authentic account of the state of the Mussulman world and the condition of Persia, Arabia, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt in the middle of the 11th century. The minute sketches of Jerusalem and its environs, moreover, are of the highest practical value, even at the present day, for our explorations in the Holy Land. During the seven years of his journey (1045-52 A.D.) Nâsir visited Mecca four times, and performed all the rites and observances of a zealous pilgrim; but the fascinating influence of the Holy City upon his mind was greatly outweighed by that of Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and the residence of the Fâtimite sultan Mostansir billâh, the great champion of the Shi'a, and the spiritual as well as political head of the house of 'Ali, which was just then waging a deadly war against the 'Abbâside caliph of Baghdâd, and the great defender of the Sunnite creed, Toghrulbeg the Seljùk. At the very time of Nâsir’s visit to Cairo, the power of the Egyptian Fatimites was in its zenith; Syria, the Hijâz, Africa, and Sicily obeyed Mostansir’s sway, and the utmost order, security, and prosperity reigned in Egypt. Cairo appeared as an earthly paradise in Nâsir’s eyes; he became, as his poems clearly indicate, thoroughly imbued there with Shi'a doctrines, and their successful introduction into his native country was henceforth the sole aim and object of his life. The hostilities he encountered in the propagation of these new religious ideas after his return to Khorâsân in 1052 and Sunnite fanaticism compelled him at last to flee, and after many wanderings he found a refuge in Yumgân, in the mountains of Badakhshân, where he spent as a hermit the last decades of his life, and gathered round him a considerable number of devoted adherents, who have handed down his doctrines to many following generations. The Dâbistân (translated by Shea and Troyer, Paris, 1843, vol. ii. p. 419 sq.) fixes his flight from Khorâsân in 456 A.H. (1064 A.D.), but there is strong evidence in some of his kasidas that this event took place some four or five years before that date; and as his death occurred in 481 A.H. (1088 a.d.) he must have lived in his exile from twenty-five to thirty years. His “nom de plume” was “Hujjat.”
Most of Nasir’s lyrical poems were composed in his retirement, and their chief topics are—an enthusiastic praise of 'Ali, his descendants, and Mostansir in particular; passionate outcries against Khorâsàn and its rulers, who had driven him from house and home; the highest satisfaction with the quiet solitude of Yumgan; and utter despondency again in seeing himself despised by his former associates, and for ever excluded from participation in the glorious contest of life. But scattered through all these alternate outbursts of hope and despair we find precious lessons of purest morality, and solemn warnings against the tricks and perfidy of the world, the vanity of all earthly splendour and greatness, the folly and injustice of men, and the hypocrisy, frivolity, and viciousness of fashionable society and princely courts in particular. It is the same strain which runs, although in a somewhat lower key, through his two larger mathnawis or double-rhymed poems, the Rιιshandindma, or “book of enlightenment,” and the Sa'ddatndma, or “book of felicity.” The former is divided into two sections: the first, of a metaphysical character, contains a sort of practical cosmography, chiefly based on Avieenna’s theories, but frequently intermixed both with the freer speculations of the well-known philosophical brotherhood of Basra, the Ikhw⅛n-es-safa, and purely Shi'itic or Isma'ilitic ideas; the second, or ethical section of the poem, abounds in moral maxims and ingenious thoughts on man’s good and bad qualities, on the necessity of shunning the company of fools and double-faced friends, on the deceptive allurements of the world and the secret snares of ambitious craving for rank and wealth. It concludes with an imaginary vision of a beautiful world of spirits who have stripped off the fetters of earthly cares and sorrows and revel in the pure light of divine wisdom and love. If we compare this with a similar allegory in Nasir’s diwan, which culminates in the praise of Mostansir, we are fairly entitled to look upon it as a covert allusion to the eminent men who revealed to the poet in Cairo the secrets of the Isma'ilitic faith, and showed him what he considered the “heavenly ladder” to superior knowledge and spiritual Miss. The passage, thus interpreted, lends additional weight to the correctness of Dr Ethé’s reconstruction of the date of the Rushandindma, viz., 440 A.H. (1049 A.n.), which, notwithstanding Μ. Schefer’s objections, is warranted both by the astronomical details and by the metrical requirements of the respective verses. That of course does not exclude the possibility of the bulk of the poem having been composed at an earlier period; it only ascribes its completion or perhaps final revision to Nasir’s sojourn in Egypt.
A similar series of excellent teachings on practical wisdom and the blessings of a virtuous life, only of a severer and more uncompromising character, is contained in the Sa'ddatndma; and, judging from the extreme bitterness of tone manifested in the “reproaches of kings and emirs,” we should be inclined to consider it a protest against the vile aspersions poured out upon Nasir’s moral and religious attitude during those persecutions which drove him at last to Yumgan. Of all the other works of our author mentioned by Oriental -writers there has as yet been found only one, the Zâd-elmusâ-firîn (in the private possession of Μ. Schefer, Paris); and we can very well dismiss the rest as being probably just as apocryphal as Nasir’s famous autobiography (found in several Persian tadhkiras or biographies of poets), a mere forgery of the most extravagant description, which is mainly responsible for the confusion in names and dates in older accounts of our author.
See Sprenger - s Catalogue of the Libraries of the King of Oudh, 1854; H. Ethé, “Nâsir Chusrau’s Rushandindma," in Z. D. Μ. G.. xxxiii., xxxiv., 1879-80; E Fagnan, “Le livre de la félicité,” in vol. xxxiv. of the same journal, 643-674; Ch. Schefer, Sefer Nameh, publié, traduit, et annoté, Paris, 1881; H. Ethé, in Göttinger Nachrichten, 1882, pp. 124-152, and Z. D. Μ. G., 1882, pp. 478-508. Fagnan in Journ. As., 7th ser., vol. xiii. p. 164 sq., and Rieu, Cat. Pers. MSB. in Br. Mus., concluded that the poet and the pilgrim were different persons. The opposite view was developed by Ethé.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 237 — signed H. E.
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Nasmyth
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NASMYTH, Alexander (1758-1840), portrait and landscape painter, was born in Edinburgh on September 9, 1758. He studied at the Trustees’ Academy under Runciman, and, having been apprenticed as an heraldic painter to a coachbuilder, he, at the age of sixteen, attracted the attention of Allan Ramsay, who took the youth with him to London, and employed him upon the subordinate portions of his works. Nasmyth returned to Edinburgh in 1778, and was soon largely patronized as a portrait painter. He also assisted Mr Miller of Dalswinton, as draughtsman, in his mechanical researches and experiments; and, this gentleman having generously offered the painter a loan to enable him to pursue his studies abroad, he left in 1782 for Italy, where he remained two years....
On his return he painted the excellent portrait of Burns, now in the Scottish National Gallery, so well known through Walker’s engraving. Political feeling at that time ran high in Edinburgh, and Nasmyth’s pronounced Liberal opinions, which he was too outspoken and sincere to disguise, gave offence to many of his aristocratic patrons, and led to the diminution of his practice as a portraitist. In his later years, accordingly, he devoted himself mainly to landscape work, and did not disdain on occasion to set his hand to scene-painting for the theatres. He has been styled, not unjustly, the “father of Scottish landscape art.” His subjects are carefully finished and coloured, but are wanting in boldness and freedom. Nasmyth was also largely employed by noblemen throughout the country in the improving and beautifying of their estates, in which his fine taste rendered him especially skilful; and he was known as an architect, having designed the Dean Bridge, Edinburgh, and the graceful circular temple covering St Bernard’s Well, which stands near it. Nasmyth died in his native city on 10th April 1840. His youngest son, James, is the w - ell-known inventor of the steam-hammer. His six daughters all attained a certain local reputation as artists, but it was in his eldest son, Patrick, that the artistic skill of his family was most powerfully developed. For an interesting account of the Nasmyth family see James Nasmyth’s Autobiography, 1883.
NASMYTH, Patrick (1787-1831), the eldest son of Alexander Nasmyth, was born at Edinburgh on January 7, 1787. Having studied under his father, he went to London at the age of twenty, and soon attracted attention as a clever landscapist. He was a diligent student of the works of Claude and Richard Wilson, and of Ruysdael and Hobbema, upon whom his own practice was mainly founded. His most characteristic paintings are of English domestic scenery, full of quiet tone and colour, and detailed and minute expression of foliage, and with considerable brilliancy of sky effect. They were executed with his left hand, his right having in early life been injured by an accident. He died at Lambeth, August 17, 1831, during a thunderstorm, which at his own request he had been raised in bed to contemplate.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 238
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The sons of Meeda, the sons of Coutha, the sons of Charea, the sons of Charcus, the sons of Aserer, the sons of Thomoi, the sons of Nasith, the sons of Atipha.
And Achiacharus, and Nasbas his brother’s son, came: