. 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