him in his linden cradle,
Stilled his fretful wail by saying
"Hush! the naked bear will get thee!"

Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, iii. (1855).

=Nakir'=, =Nekir=, or =Nakeer=. (See MONKER AND NAKIR.)

=Nala=, a legendary king of India, noted for his love of Damayanti, and
his subsequent misfortunes. This legendary king has been the subject of
numerous poems.

[Asterism] Dean Milman has translated into English the episode from the
_Mah[^a]bh[^a]rata_, and W. Yates has translated the Nalodaya of the great
Sanskrit poem.

=Nama=, a daughter of man, beloved by the angel Zaraph. Her wish was to
love intensely and to love holily, but as she fixed her love on a
seraph, and not on God, she was doomed to abide on earth, "unchanged in
heart and frame," so long as the earth endureth; but at the great
consummation both Nama and her seraph will be received into those courts
of love, where "love never dieth."--Moore, _Loves of the Angels_, ii.
(1822).

=Namby= (_Major_), a retired officer, living in the suburbs of London. He
had been twice married; his first wife had four children, and his second
wife three. Major Namby, though he lived in a row, always transacted his
domestic affairs by bawling out his orders from the front garden, to the
annoyance of his neighbors. He used to stalk half-way down the garden
path, with his head high in the air, his chest stuck out, and
flourishing his military cane. Suddenly he would stop, stamp with one
foot, knock up the hinder brim of his hat, begin to scratch the nape of
his neck, wait a moment, then wheel round, look at the first-floor
window, and roar out, "Matilda!" (the name of his wife) "don't do
so-and-so;" or "Matilda! do so-and-so." Then he would bellow to the
servants to buy this, or not to let the children eat that, and so
on.--Wilkie Collins, _Pray Employ Major Namby_ (a sketch).

=Names of Terror.= The following amongst others, have been employed as
bogie-names to frighten children with:--

ATTILA was a bogie-name to the Romans.

BO or BOH, son of Odin, was a fierce Gothic captain. His name was used
by his soldiers when they would fight or surprise the enemy.--Sir
William Temple.

[Asterism] Warton tells us that the Dutch scared their children with the
name of Boh.

BONAPARTE, at the close of the eighteenth and beginning of the
nineteenth centuries, was a name of terror in Europe.

CORVI'NUS (_Mathias_), the Hungarian, was a scare-name to the Turks.