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. It consisted of 721 members, but was reduced, first to 500, then to 300. It succeeded the National Assembly. =Natty Bumpo=, called "Leather-stocking." He appears in five of F. Cooper's novels: (1) _The Deerslayer_; (2) _The Pathfinder_; (3) "Hawkeye" in _The Last of the Mohicans_; (4) "Natty Bumpo," in _The Pioneer_; and (5) "The Trapper," in _The Prairie_, in which he dies. =Nausic'aa= (4 _syl._), daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phoea'cians, who conducted Ulysses to the court of her father when he was shipwrecked on the coast. =Navigation= (_The Father of_), Don Henrique, duke of Viseo, the greatest man that Portugal has produced (1394-1460). _Navigation_ (_The Father of British Inland_), Francis Egerton, duke of Bridgewater (1736-1803). =Neaera=, a name used by Horace, Virgil, Tibullus, and Milton as a synonym of sweetheart. To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair. Milton, _Lycidas_ (1638). =Neal'liny= (4 _syl._), a suttee, the young widow of Ar'valan, son of Keha'ma.--Southey, _Curse of Kehama_, i. 11 (1809). =Nebuchadnezzar= [_Ne-boch-ad-ne-Tzar_], in Russian, means "there is no God but the Czar."--M. D., _Notes and Queries_ (21st July, 1877). =Neck.= Calig'ula, the Roman emperor used to say, "Oh that the Roman people had but one neck, that I might cut it off at a blow!" I love the sex, and sometimes would reverse The tyrant's wish, that, "mankind only had One neck, which he with one fell stroke might pierce." Byron, _Don Juan_, vi. 27 (1824). =Neck or Nothing=, a farce by Garrick (1766). Mr. Stockwell promises to give his daughter in marriage to the son of Sir Harry Harlowe, of Dorsetshire, with a _dot_ of [pounds]10,000; but it so happens that the young man is privately married. The two servants of Mr. Belford and Sir Harry Harlowe try to get possession of the money, by passing off Martin (Belford's servant) as Sir Harry's son; but it so happens that Belford is in love with Miss Stockwell, and hearing of the plot through Jenny, the young lady's-maid, arrests the two servants as vagabonds. Old Stockwell gladly consents to his marriage with Nancy, and thinks himself well out of the terrible scrape. =Nectaba'nus=, the dwarf at the cell of the hermit of Engaddi. Sir W. Scott, _The Talisman_ (time, Richard I.). =Nectar=, the beverage of the gods. It was white as cream, for when Heb[^e] spilt some of
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