Sir, I last night received command
To see you out of Fairy-land.
Into the realm of Nosnot-Bocai.
King, Orpheus and Eurydice.
Nostrada´mus (Michael), an astrologer of the sixteenth century, who published an annual Almanac and a Recueil of Prophecies, in verse (1503-1566).
Nostrada´mus of Portugal, Gonçalo Annês Bandarra, a poet-cobbler, whose career was stopped, in 1556, by the Inquisition.
Nottingham (The countess of), a quondam sweetheart of the earl of Essex, and his worst enemy, when she heard that he had married the countess of Rutland. The queen sent her to the Tower to ask Essex if he had no petition to make, and the earl requested her to take back a ring, which the queen had given him as a pledge of mercy in time of need. As the countess out of jealousy forbore to deliver it, the earl was executed.—Henry Jones, The Earl of Essex (1745).
Nottingham Lambs, (The), the Nottingham roughs.
Nottingham Poet (The), Philip James Bailey, the author of Festus, etc. (1816- ).
No´tus, the south wind; Afer is the south-west wind.
Notus and Afer, black with thundrous clouds.
Milton, Paradise Lost, (1665).
Noukhail, the angel of day and night.
The day and night are trusted to my care. I hold the day in my right hand and the night in my left; and I maintain the just equilibrium between them, for if either were to overbalance the other, the universe would either be consumed by the heat of the sun, or would perish with the cold of darkness.—Comte de Caylus, Oriental Tales (“History of Abdal Motallab,” 1743).