_Nash, (Richard:)_ Commonly called _Beau Nash, or King of Bath, a
celebrated leader of the fashions in England. He was born at Swansea,
in South-Wales, October 8th, 1674, and died in the city of Bath,
(England,) February 3d, 1761.
_Natural History:_ The history of animals, plants, and minerals.
_Natural Philosophy:_ The science which treats of the powers of nature,
the properties of natural bodies, and their action one upon another. It
is sometimes called _physics_.
_New-milch cow:_ A cow which has recently calved.
_Newton, (Sir Isaac:)_ An eminent English philosopher and mathematician,
who was born on Christmas day, 1642, and died March. 20th, 1727. He was
much distinguished for his very important discoveries in Optics and
other branches of Natural Philosophy. See the first volume of _Pursuit
of Knowledge under Difficulties_, forming the fourteenth volume of _The
School Library_, larger series.
_Night-Soil:_ Human excrement, so-called because usually removed from
privies by night.
_Non-bearers:_ Plants which bear no flowers nor fruit.
_Northern States_: Those of the United States situated in the northern
and eastern part of the country.
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