Eblis, whence she never after returned to
the light of day.

The trick she played Bababalouk was this: Vathek, the caliph, was on a
visit to Fakreddin, the emir', and Bababalouk, his chief eunuch,
intruded into the bathroom, where Nouronihar and her damsels were
bathing. Nouronihar induced the old eunuch to rest himself on the swing,
when the girls set it going with all their might. The cords broke, the
eunuch fell into the bath, and the girls made off with their lamps, and
left the meddlesome old fool to flounder about till morning, when
assistance came, but not before he was half dead.--W. Beckford, _Vathek_
(1784).

=Nouroun'nihar=, niece of a sultan of India, who had three sons, all in
love with her. The sultan said he would give her to him who, in twelve
months, gave him the most valuable present. The three princes met in a
certain inn at the expiration of the time, when one prince looked
through a tube, which showed Nourounnihar at the point of death; another
of the brothers transported all three instantaneously on a magic carpet
to the princess's chamber; and the third brother gave her an apple to
smell of which effected an instant cure. It was impossible to decide
which of these presents was the most valuable; so the sultan said he
should have her who shot an arrow to the greatest distance. The eldest
(Houssian) shot first; Ali overshot the arrow of his eldest brother; but
that of the youngest brother (Ahmed) could nowhere be found. So the
award was given to Ahmed.--_Arabian Nights_ ("Ahmed and Pari-Banou").

=Novel= (_Father of the English_). Henry Fielding is so called by Sir W.
Scott (1707-1754).

=Noven'siles= (4 _syl._), the nine Sabine gods, viz.: Hercul[^e]s,
Romulus, Esculapius, Bacchus, AEn[=e]as, Vesta, Santa, Fortuna and
Fid[^e]s or Faith. (See NINE GODS of the Etruscans.)

=Novit= (_Mr. Nichil_), the lawyer of the old laird of Dumbiedikes.--Sir
W. Scott, _Heart of Midlothian_ (time, George II.).

=Novius=, the usurer, famous for the loudness of his voice.

... at hic si plaustra ducenta
Concurrantque foro tria funera magna sonabit
Cornua quod vincatque tubas.

Horace, _Satires_, i. 6.

These people seem to be of the race of Novius, that Roman banker,
whose voice exceeded the noise of carmen.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_, vii.
13 (1735).

=Now-now= (_Old Anthony_), an itinerant fiddler. The character is a skit
on Anthony Munday, the dramatist.--