el Newcome, his cousin,
whom he marries as his second wife.--Thackeray, _The Newcomes_ (1855).

_Newcome_ (_Johnny_), any raw youth when he first enters the army or
navy.

=Newman Noggs.= Ralph Nickleby's clerk, but Ralph's nephew's friend and
secret coadjutor.--Charles Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_.

=Newland= (_Abraham_), one of the governors of the Bank of England, to
whom, in the early part of the nineteenth century, all Bank of England
notes were made payable. A bank-note was called an "Abraham Newland;"
and hence the popular song, "I've often heard say, sham Ab'ram you may,
but must not sham Abraham Newland."

Trees are notes issued from the bank of nature, and as current as
those payable to Abraham Newland.--G. Colman, _The Poor Gentleman_,
i. 2 (1802).

=Newman.= An intelligent American who has made a fortune as a
manufacturer, yet kept his head steady. He sees life with clear,
sometimes with amused eyes.

"In America," Newman reflected, "lads of twenty-five and thirty
have old heads and young hearts, or at least, young morals; abroad
they have young heads and very aged hearts, morals the most
grizzled and wrinkled."--Henry James Jr., _The Americans_ (1877).

=Newton.=

Newton ... declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only "like a youth
Picking up shells by the great ocean, truth."

Byron, _Don Juan_, vii. 5 (1824).

Newton discovered the prismatic colors of light, and explained the
phenomenon by the emission theory.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night.
God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light.

Pope, _Epitaph, intended for Newton's Monument in Westminster Abbey_
(1727).

Newton is called by Campbell "The Priest of Nature."--_Pleasures of
Hope_, i. (1799).

=Newton and the Apple.= It is said that Newton was standing in the garden
of Mrs. Conduitt, of Woolsthorpe, in the year 1665, when an apple fell
from a tree and set him thinking. From this incident he ultimately
developed his theory of gravitation.

=Nibelung=, a mythical king of Nibelungeland (_Norway_). He had twelve
paladins, all giants. Siegfried [_Sege.freed_], prince of the Netherlands,
slew the giants, and made Nibelungeland tributary.--_Nibelungen Lied_,
iii. (1210).

=Nibelungen Hoard=, a mythical mass of gold and precious stones which
Siegfried [_Sege.freed_], prince of the Netherlands, took from
Nibelungeland and