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See: Wolf
"...Ovid says, that the dog Nape was conceived of a Wolf, and Ovid and Virgil both, mention the dog Lycisca, which, as Isiodore writes, are generated of wolves and dogs coupling together..."
See: Bitumen
"...now I shall search out the kinds of Bitumen. The first kind is liquid, called Naphtha, we call it Oil of Peter, which remains in stones and Kitram..."
"... It consists of these things. Oil of rosinous Turpentine, of Quicksilver (otherwise then I showed in Distilling) of Juniper, of Naphtha, Linseed, Colophonia, Camphire. .."
Napkin - A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.
"...Beat Vitriol and Galls in a Mortar. Put them in a narrow close sieve, that the powder may come forth very fine. With this wipe the Napkin, and shake it..."
"... If you rub the edge of the knife, and the Napkin he wipes his mouth with, with the juice of Coloquintida, or flesh of it, and lay it before him..."
Narcissus - A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.
"..Some of the most beautiful and handsome young men that ever mankind afforded, as of Nireus, Narcissus, and valiant Hyacinthus, ..."
"...Nardum kills sheep. Dioscorides. Cattle and goats, if they drink the water where Rhododendron is steeped, will die. Pliny and Ononymus, an author nameless. Flea Bane kills Goats and Sheep. So does Savin..."
Natural Magick - The study and description of the Natural Sciences in all its forms.
"...That Natural Magick is the top, and the complete faculty or Natural Science, in handling it, we will conclude within the compass of this volume, whatsoever is high, noble, choice, and notable, that is discovered in the large field of Natural History..."
Natural History - The study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships.
"...That Natural Magick is the top, and the complete faculty or Natural Science, in handling it, we will conclude within the compass of this volume, whatsoever is high, noble, choice, and notable, that is discovered in the large field of Natural History..."
Natural Science - A science, such as biology, chemistry, or physics, that deals with the objects, phenomena, or laws of nature and the physical world.
"...They that have been most skillful in dark and hidden points of learning, do call this knowledge the very highest point, and the perfection's of Natural Sciences; inasmuch that if they could find out or devise amongst all Natural Sciences, any one thing more excellent or more wonderful then another, that they would still call by the name of Magick..."
"...That Natural Magick is the top, and the complete faculty or Natural Science, in handling it, we will conclude within the compass of this volume, whatsoever is high, noble, choice, and notable, that is discovered in the large field of Natural History..."
Nature - all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, reproduction and growth.
"...the Egyptians termed Nature herself a Magician, because she has the alluring power to draw like things by their likes..."
"... Pliny speaking of this, says, for what is more wonderful? Or wherein is Nature more wanton..."
See: Orpheus
"...by reason of their mutual love, and so they hold and stand together, every member of it being linked to each other by a common bond, which the Spirit of the World, which we spoke of before, has inclined them unto. For this cause Orpheus calls Jupiter, and the Nature of the World, man and wife, because the world is so desirous to marry and couple her parts together..."
Navel - . The central part or point of anything; the middle.
"...You must fill up the Navel of the Peach (or that place wherein the stalk was fastened) with a drop or two of scalding Pitch, so that the Wine may not get into the Peach by that passage..."
"...For if any moisture does settle upon them, presently the Worm breeds in them, and if once the Worm has eaten out the Navel as it were of the Pulse, that which is in them like a little mouth, then cannot the other part which is left, be ever fit for seed..."
Navew - A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. (also naphew)
See: Asphodils, Daffodil, Round-heads
"Bread of Asphodils is eaten... Pliny, the Daffodil is eaten with the seed and head terrified. But this roasted in the embers as Hesiod affirms, is eaten with oil also braised with figs, it is eaten with great pleasure. These round-heads are like to Navews of moderate bigness..."
"...And not to be tedious, the same way-Bread to eat, may be made of all Navews, roots, or bulbous-heads..."
"...as Aristotle writes, is in all his entrails like a wolfs, and is a strong beast, swift, and is wont to encounter a lion. Pliny says, it is kind of wolf, Hesychius says, it is like a wolf, Herodotus, that it is gendered in Africa. Solinus called them Ethiopian Wolves. Nearchus calls these beasts Tygres, and says there be diverse kinds of them..."
Needle - . A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread.
"...Put your hand with the Loadstone privately under the table, and there where the head of the Needle, the Loadstone will stick, and the Needle will presently stand upright..."
"... The Needle in the Mariners Compass will move above, as if there were no body between them. St. August ne Lib. de civitate Dei, knew this experiment..."
Nep (Catnip)
Nep - Catnip - A well-known plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.
"...You must get a great root of Brionie, or wild Nep, and with a sharp instrument engrave in it a man or a woman, giving either of them thier genitories..."
Nepos, Cornelius. First century B.C. - Roman historian whose only extant work is a series of biographies of statesmen and soldiers.
"...There is a kind of Lote without any inward kernel, which is as hard as a bone in the other kind. Wine is pressed also out of it like mead, that will not last above ten days. Nepos says the same from Pliny, Athenaus from Polybius. .."
Nero - A Roman emperor (37-68 A.D.).
See: Ceasar
"...And the governor of that country (Byzatium in Africa) sent to Nero, three hundred and fourty stems growing out of one grain..."
".. Nero Ceasar made his face white from the strokes he had received in his Nightwalks, with Wax and Frankincense..."
"... Livia Augusta, when she was young and great with the child of Nero, by Caesar Tiberius, because she earnestly desired to bring first a boy. She made use of this Omen to try it by..."
Nestis (Water)
"...But Empedocles Agrigentinus not thinking that the elements were sufficient for this purpose, added unto them moreover concord and discord, as the causes of generation and corruption: There be four principal feeds or beginning of all things; Jupiter, that is to say fire; Pluto, that is to say, earth; Juno, that is to say air; and Nestis, that is to say, water..."
Nether - Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under.
"...Whence we may conjecture, that as the stone (Loadstone) has a Pole Arctic and Antarctic. So it has an East and West part, and its upper and Nether part, as the heavens have..."
Nettle - A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. "The English Physitian", Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. -- "These are so well known that they need no Description at all, they may be found by the feeling in the darkest night."
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. Chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. The common European species, U. Urens and U. Dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. Pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
"...Also the root of wild Nettles boiled with flesh, will make them tender. Pliny..."