NAGARA, Ind. The drum made from a hollow cylinder of teak wood, and the ends covered with goat skin; it is suspended from the left shoulder to the right side, and beat with a stick made of teak wood.
NAGER, Fr. to swim.
Se sauver à la NAGE, to save oneself by swimming.
NAGGUR, Ind. The principal drum in Asiatic armies, commonly allowed only to persons of high dignity. The bass drum.
NAIB, Ind. a deputy. The governor of a town under a nawaub or nabob is so called in India.
NAIC, or NAIK, a subaltern officer in the sepoys; a corporal.
Drill Naic, or Naick, a subaltern officer belonging to the native infantry in India, answering to our drill corporal. Every battalion of native infantry has two drill havildars or serjeants, and two drill-naicks, called non-effective, attached to it.
NAILS of various sorts are used in artillery. See [Carriage].
Garnish Nails, in travelling carriages, have pointed heads like diamonds, with a small narrow neck: they serve to fasten the plates with roses, to cover the sidepieces from the ends of the trunnion-plates to 5 or 6 inches beyond the centre of the carriage.
Diamond headed Nails, small nails, whose heads are made like a flat diamond, and serve to fix the plates upon travelling carriages.