ome is so called by Byron.--_Childe Harold_,
iv. 79 (1817).

=Nipper= (_Susan_), generally called "Spitfire," from her snappish
disposition. She was the nurse of Florence Dombey, to whom she was much
attached. Susan Nipper married Mr. Toots (after he had got over his
infatuation for Florence).

=Nippotate= (4 _syl._), "a live lion stuffed with straw," exhibited in a
raree-show. This proved to be the body of a tame hedgehog exhibited by
Old Harry, a notorious character in London at the beginning of the
eighteenth century (died 1710).

Of monsters stranger than can be expressed,
There's Nippotat[^e] lies amongst the rest.

_Sutton Nicholls._

=Niquee= [_Ne'.kay_], the sister of Anasterax, with whom she lived in
incest. The fairy Zorphee was her godmother, and enchanted her, in order
to break off this connection.--Vasco de Lobeira, _Amadis de Gaul_
(thirteenth century).

=Nisroch= [_Niz'.rok_], "of principalities the prince." A god of the
Assyrians. In the book of _Kings_ the Septuagint calls him "Meserach,"
and in _Isaiah_ "Nasarach." Josephus calls him "Arask[^e]s." One of the
rebel angels in Milton's _Paradise Lost_. He Says:[TN-40]

Sense of pleasure we may well
Spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine,
But live content, which is the calmest life;
But pain is perfect misery, the worst
Of evils, and, excessive, overturns
All patience.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, (1665).

=Nit=, one of the attendants of Queen Mab.

Hop, and Mop, and Drap so clear,
Pip, and Trip, and Skip, that were
To Mab their sovereign dear--
Her special maids of honor.
Fib, and Tib, and Pinck, and Pin,
Tick, and Quick, and Jil, and Jin,
Tit, and Nit, and Wap, and Win--
The train that wait upon her.

Drayton, _Nymphidia_ (1563-1631).

=Nitchs=, daughter of Amases, king of Egypt. She was sent to Persia to
become the wife of Cambyses.--Georg Ebers, _An Egyptian Princess_.

=Nixon= (_Christal_), agent to Mr. Edward Redgauntlet, the Jacobite.--Sir
W. Scott, _Redgauntlet_ (time, George III.).

_Nixon_ (_Martha_), the old nurse of the earl of Oxford.--Sir W. Scott,
_Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=No One= (_Caesar or_). Julius Caesar said, "Aut Caesar aut nullus." And
again, "I would sooner be first in a village than second at Rome."

Milton makes Satan say, "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

Jonathan Wild use