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NOBLE. 591 NODDY. Minn., where he reiiiaiiRHl for six years. After oa-iipyiug churches in rittsburg. Pa., and New Haven, Conn., he was called to the Union Park Church, Chicago, in 18711, and preaelied there until his resignation in IHOI. His publications include: Divine Life in- Man (lS!)(i) ; I)i.^courses on I'liiHiipiiins (1897); and Our Rcdt'inplion {181IS). NOBLE, .John Willock (1831—). An Ameri- can lawyer and Cabinet ollicer, born at Lancaster, Ohio. • After a year at Miami University, he en- tered Yale, where he graduate4: in VMW. 4702. NO-BODY CKAB, or Sea-spider. See Pan- TOPODA. NOBTJNAGA, no'boo-nii'g^i (1533-82). A J:ipanese soldier and ruler, who brouglit order out of anarchy in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Born of an humble family, he was free from the hatreds and jealousies of the nobles, and won his way by his own powers as an in- trejiid and skillful soldier. He was victorious in many contests, and, notably, he humbled the militant P)uddhist priests, destroying two strong- ly fortified monasteries and putting tlie monks to the sword. Buddhism never regained its politi- cal power. As an aid in the contest with liud- dliism he welcomed the Jesuit missionaries, his own son becoming a Christian. But his favor was wholly for political purposes. Nobun.aga was .a jovial, pleasure-loving man, a patron of the fine arts and of wrestling. His private life was stained not only by the vices common to the military men of his age, but by . treachery. In consequence of his failure to respect a pledge given by one of his lieutenants he was assas- sinated, his murder being speedily avenged. In a desperate age Nobunaga began the work which was carried to its completion by his greater suc- cessors, Hideyoshi (q.v.) and Ivevasu (q.v.). Consult: Brinkley, ./rtpare (Boston,' 1001 ) ; Griffis, The Mikado's Empire, new ed. (New York, 1883) . NOCERA DE' PAGANI, n6-cha'ril da pi- gii'ne. A city in Italy. Sic NocEK. I.NFERIOKE. NOCERA INFEBIORE, .'nfa-re ./ra, or NoeiJKA he' I'aua.m. . city in the Province of Salerno, Italy, 20 miles east by south of Na- ples by rail (Jlap: Italy, F 11). It is the see of a bishop, has a cathedral, ruins of a castle, formerly an Angevine stronghold, and large mod- ern factories of linen and woolen goods. The town was the ancient Nuceria Alfatcrna. de- stroyed by Hannibal in 210 B.C., but rebuilt by Augustus. Population (commune), in 1881, 15,8.58; in 1891, 10,790. NOC'TES AM'BROSIA'N.a; (Lat., ambro- sial nights). The name of a long .series of criti- cal, political, and poetical disquisitions in dia- logue published in Blackwood's Mat/a::i»c from 1822 to 1835, purporting to be the word-for-word report of the meetings at Ambrose's Tavern. Ed- inburgh, and elsewhere, of several of the literary celebrities of the day. Por the first throe years they were the work of many hands, liut after 1825 they were mostly by 'Christopher North,' John Wilson (q.v.). The scheme was evidently taken from the symposia of the ancients. The 'Nodes had an immense vogue, but they are now little read. Their great creation is the character of the Ettrick Shepherd, an idealized portrait of James Hogg (q.v.). NOCTILUCA (Lat., that which shines by night). An enormous monad-like form repre- senting the order Cystofiagellata, of the class Mastigophora (q.v.). It is a highly phospho- rescent organism, so small as to be scarcely seen with the naked eye, being frotn y^ to 1 mm. (.01 to .04 inch) in diameter, and occurs in great numbers on the surface of the sea, including American harbors. It has a nearly spherical, jelly-like body, with a groove on one side, from which issues a curved filament or flagellum. used in locomotion. Near the base of this llagclhim is the mouth, having on one side a tooth-like pro- jection. Connecting with the mouth is a .short oesophagus or gullet, which passes into the diges- tive cavity, in front of which lies a nucleus. Beneath the outer skin or firm membrane sur- rounding the body is a gelatinous Inyer. con- taining numerous granules. The yoting result from a division or segmentation of the entire mass of the protoplasm of the body, forming small oval bodies with a long lash. The germs or zoc'ispores are somewhat like those of other flagellate infusoria, but very unlike the a<liilt. The only other representative of this order is Leptodisciis mediisoides, which darts through the water by the contractions of its umbrella-shaped body. It was discovered at Messina, but has not yet been detected in American Nvaters. NOCTU'ID.ffi (Neo-Lat. nom. pi., from Lat. naetiin, night-owl, from nox, night). -' large and important family of moths, containing all of those forms known as owlet moths (q.v.). Their larva^ include the cutworms (cj.v.). NOCTURNE, nok-tflrn' (Fr., night piece). The name given by .Tohn Field (q.v.) to a com- position of a soft, dreamy character somewhat free in form. The greatest master of the noc- turne is Chopin, who has filled this form with the loftiest contents. NODDY (probably from nod. OHG. hnotoii, iiiinlnn. dialectic Ger. notteln, to shake). . brownish black tern {Anou-s stolidus) widely