NEGRO-BOAT. See [Almadia].
NEGROHEAD. Hard-rolled tobacco.
NEGRO-HEADS. The brown loaves issued to ships in ordinary.
NELLY. Diomedea spadicea, a sea-bird of the family Procellaridæ, which follows in the wake of a ship when rounding the Cape of Good Hope: it is very voracious of fat blubber.
NEPTUNE. A superior planet, recently discovered; it is the most distant member of the solar system yet known, and was revealed by the effect which its attraction had produced upon the movements of Uranus; this was one of the most admirable solutions in modern mathematical science. Neptune, so far as is yet known, has no satellites.
NEPTUNES. Large brass pans used in the Bight of Biafra for obtaining salt.
NEPTUNE'S GOBLETS. The large cup-shaped sponges found in the eastern seas; Raphyrus patera.
NEPTUNE'S SHEEP. Waves breaking into foam, called white horses.
NESS [Ang.-Sax. næs]. A projection of land, as Dungeness, Sheerness, &c. It is common in other European languages, as the French nez, Italian naso, Russian noss, Norwegian naze, &c. Our Dunnose is an example.
NEST. See [Crow's Nest].