of the sixteenth century, who
published an annual _Almanac_ and a _Recueil of Prophecies_, in verse
(1503-1566).

=Nostrada'mus of Portugal=, Gon[c,]alo Ann[^e]s Bandarra, a
poet-cobbler, whose career was stopped, in 1556, by the Inquisition.

=Nottingham= (_The countess of_), a quondam sweetheart of the earl of
Essex, and his worst enemy, when she heard that he had married the
countess of Rutland. The queen sent her to the Tower to ask Essex if he
had no petition to make, and the earl requested her to take back a ring,
which the queen had given him as a pledge of mercy in time of need. As
the countess out of jealousy forbore to deliver it, the earl was
executed.--Henry Jones, _The Earl of Essex_ (1745).

=Nottingham Lambs=, (_The_), the Nottingham roughs.

=Nottingham Poet= (_The_), Philip James Bailey, the author of _Festus_,
etc. (1816- ).

=No'tus=, the south wind; _Afer_ is the south-west wind.

Notus and Afer, black with thundrous clouds.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, (1665).

=Noukhail=, the angel of day and night.

The day and night are trusted to my care. I hold the day in my
right hand and the night in my left; and I maintain the just
equilibrium between them, for if either were to overbalance the
other, the universe would either be consumed by the heat of the
sun, or would perish with the cold of darkness.--Comte de Caylus,
_Oriental Tales_ ("History of Abdal Motallab," 1743).

=Nouman= (_Sidi_), an Arab who married Am[=i]n[^e], a very beautiful
woman, who ate her rice with a bodkin. Sidi, wishing to know how his
wife could support life and health without more food than she partook of
in his presence, watched her narrowly, and discovered that she was a
ghoul, who went by stealth every night and feasted on the fresh-buried
dead. When Sidi made this discovery, Amin[^e] changed him into a dog.
After he was restored to his normal shape, he changed Amin[^e] into a
mare, which every day he rode almost to death.--_Arabian Nights_
("History of Sidi Nouman").

Your majesty knows that ghouls of either sex are demons which
wander about the fields. They commonly inhabit ruinous buildings,
whence they issue suddenly on unwary travellers, whom they kill and
devour. If they fail to meet with travellers, they go by night into
burying grounds, and dig up dead bodies, on which they
feed.--"History of Sidi Nouman."

=Nouredeen=, son