rs, brought up by her old miserly grandfather, who gambled away all
his money. Her days were monotonous and without youthful companionship,
her evenings gloomy and solitary; there were no child-sympathies in her
dreary home, but dejection, despondence akin to madness, watchfulness,
suspicion, and imbecility. The grandfather being wholly ruined by
gaming, the two went forth as beggars, and ultimately settled down in a
cottage adjoining a country churchyard. Here Nell died, and the old
grandfather soon afterwards was found dead upon her grave.--C. Dickens,
_The Old Curiosity Shop_ (1840).

=Nelly=, the servant-girl of Mrs. Dinmont.--Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_
(time, George II.).

=Nelson's Ship=, the _Victory_.

Now from the fleet of the foemen past
Ahead of the _Victory_,
A four-decked ship, with a flagless mast,
An Anak of the sea.
His gaze on the ship Lord Nelson cast:
"Oh, oh! my old friend!" quoth he.
"Since again we have met, we must all be glad
To pay our respects to the _Trinidad_."
So, full on the bow of the giant foe,
Our gallant _Victory_ runs;
Thro' the dark'ning smoke the thunder broke
O'er her deck from a hundred guns.

Lord Lytton, _Ode_, iii. 9 (1839).

=Nem'ean Lion=, a lion of Arg[)o]lis, slain by Hercul[^e]s.

In this word Shakespeare has preserved the correct accent: "As hardy as
the Nem'ean lion's nerve" (_Hamlet_, act i. sc. 5); but Spenser
incorrectly throws the accent on the second syllable, which is _e_
short: "Into the great Neme'an's lion's grove" (_Fa[:e]ry Queen_, v. 1).

Ere Nem[)e]a's beast resigned his shaggy spoils.

Statius, _The Thebaid_, i.

=Nem'esis=, the Greek personification of retribution, or that punishment
for sin which sooner or later overtakes the offender.

... and some great Nemesis
Break from a darkened future.

Tennyson, _The Princess_, (1847).

=Ne'mo=, the name by which Captain Hawdon was known at Krook's. He had
once won the love of the future Lady Dedlock, by whom he had a child
called Esther Summerson; but he was compelled to copy law-writings for
daily bread, and died a miserable death from an overdose of opium.--C.
Dickens, _Bleak House_ (1852).

=Nepen'the= (3 _syl._) or NEPENTHES, a care-dispelling drug, which
Polydamna, wife of Tho'nis, king of Egypt, gave to Helen (daughter of
Jove and Leda). A drink containing this drug "changed grief to mirth,