Nân-mo, Chinese. A beautiful wood, resembling cedar, used for temples, palaces, and houses of state.
Nantes. Manufactories of white faience were established here in 1588 and 1625; and that of Le Roy de Montilliée and others in the 18th century.
Naology. The science of temples. (See Dudley’s Naology, or a Treatise on the Origin, Progress, and Symbolical Import of the Sacred Structures of the World.)
Naos, Gr. The interior apartment of a Greek temple; the cella of the Roman temple.
Napery. A general term for made-up linen cloth.
Naphthar, Heb. (lit. thick water). The name given by Nehemiah to the substance that they found in the pit where the sacred fire of the temple had been hidden during the Captivity. This “thick water, which” (the legend says) “being poured over the sacrifice and the wood, was kindled by the great heat of the sun and then burnt with an exceedingly bright and clear flame,” was the naphtha of modern commerce.
Napiform (Lat. napus, a turnip). Turnip-shaped.
Napkin (little nape). A pocket-handkerchief.
“Your napkin is too little.” (Othello.)
Napkin Pattern. A decorative ornament very common in German wood-carving of the 15th and 16th centuries. (See Linen-Scroll.)