ich have been selected for
determining the latitude or the longitude, by lunar distances, and
inserted, corrected to the year, in the Nautical Ephemeris.

NAUTICAL TABLES. Those especially computed for resolution of matters
dependent on nautical astronomy, and navigation generally.

NAUTICUM F[OE]NUS. Marine usury; bottomry.

NAUTILUS. The pearly nautilus, _N. pompilius_, is a marine animal,
belonging to the same class (_Cephalopoda_) as the cuttle-fish, but
protected by a beautiful, chambered, discoid shell. The paper-nautilus
(_Argonauta argo_) belongs to a different family of the same class, and
has a simple, delicate, boat-like shell.

NAVAL. Of or belonging to a ship, or, as now commonly adopted, to the
royal navy; hence, naval stores, naval officers, &c.

NAVAL ARCHITECTURE. The construction, or art and science, of building
ships.

NAVAL ARMAMENT. A fleet or squadron of ships of war, fitted out for a
particular service.

NAVAL CADET. _See_ CADET.

NAVAL HOSPITALS. Greenwich is styled by eminence _the Royal Hospital_,
yet the naval medical establishments in England and the colonies are
all royal. At home they are Haslar, Plymouth, Yarmouth, Haulbowline,
Chatham, and Woolwich; abroad, Malta, Jamaica, Halifax, Bermuda, Cape of
Good Hope, and Hong Kong. Besides these useful hospitals, there are
other stations of relief around the coasts.

NAVAL OFFICER. One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in
charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad.

NAVAL RESERVE. A body of volunteers, consisting of coasters and able
merchant seamen, who are drilled for serving on board our ships of war
in case of need. They receive a fixed rate of compensation, become
entitled to a pension, and enjoy other privileges. They are largely
officered from their own body.

NAVAL SCIENCE. A knowledge of the theory of ship-building, seamanship,
navigation, nautical astronomy, and tactics.

NAVAL STORES. All those particulars which are made use of, not only in
the royal navy, but in every other kind of navigation. There are various
statutes against stealing or embezzling them.

NAVAL STORE-SHIP. A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores
and munitions of war to different stations.

NAVAL TACTICS. The warlike evolutions of fleets, including such
man[oe]uvres as may be judged most suitable for attack, defence, or
retreat, with precision. The science of tactics happens never to have
proceeded from naval men. Thus