to any future prosecution for the same offense. (See Jeopardy.) Under modern codes of civil procedure, the method of abandoning legal proceedings is by discontinuance, or by allowing a nonsuit; but in a few jurisdictions, where common-law pleading and practice still obtains, a nolle prosequi seems to be a permissible way of ending an action on the part of the plaintiff. See Nonsuit; Pleading; Practice.
NOMA. See Cancrum Oris.
NOM′AD (from Lat. nomas, from Gk. νομάς, roaming, from νέμειν, nemein, to pasture, distribute). A term primarily applied to those peoples whose resources were chiefly flocks and herds. All the industries and conveniences of nomadic life grow out of this one fact. Grass and water are the chief essentials, hence nomads dwell always in regions where pasture is the best and water is not far to seek. Their habitations must admit of being transported from place to place, and hence consist of tents; their furniture is largely of skins; they clothe themselves in hides and woolen cloth. The saddle and harness, sleds and wagons, roads and land commerce, all spring out of the taming of horses, asses, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, and reindeer—the characteristic wealth of nomadic peoples.
NOMA′DA (Neo-Lat., from Gk. νομάς, nomas, roaming). A genus of bees typical of the family Nomadidæ, including species which live parasitically in the nests of other bees and are called ‘cuckoo-bees.’ Often there is enough food both for the larvæ of the cell-maker and the larvæ of the cuckoo-bee, and both thrive and issue simultaneously as adults. The larva is smooth, tapering toward each end, and has a small head. The pupa has three conspicuous spines on the upper and posterior edge of the orbit, which seem to aid in locomotion. See Cuckoo-Bee.
NO MAN'S LAND. (1) A region 170 miles in length and about 35 in width, north of Texas, ceded to the United States in 1850 and made a part of Oklahoma in 1890. Between those years the district was under no form of government, and became a resort of outlaws.
(2) A narrow district on the line between Delaware and Pennsylvania. Although it is held to belong to Pennsylvania, some of the inhabitants perform their legal obligations in Delaware, while others do not recognize their citizenship in either State.
NOMARCHY, or NOME. The largest administrative division of Greece. Since 1899 the nomarchies have numbered twenty-six. They are subdivided into eparchies, which in turn are made up of demarchies. The administration of the nomarchy is in the hands of a nomarch, appointed by the Government for an indefinite term. His duties are much like those of the French prefect. Like him, he is assisted by a council elected by universal suffrage, but for a fixed term. The eparchy corresponds to the French arrondissement and the demarchy to the commune.
NOME (Lat. nomus, from Gk. νόμος, nomos, province, district, from νέμειν, nemein, to pasture, distribute). The name given by the Greeks to the provinces or districts into which Egypt was divided, from the earliest historical period down to the time of the Roman dominion. It is probable that the nomes were the remains of small independent States, which in very early times were united under a single monarchy. Each nome possessed its own god or group of gods, worshiped in the local temple, as also its own myths and religious traditions. The government of the nome was a copy, in miniature, of that of the State. At the head stood the nomarch, or governor, and under him was a regular gradation of officials, each responsible to his immediate superior. In the earlier period, each nome had its own treasury, its own courts of justice, and its own military establishment. Under the feudal system of the Middle Empire, the nomarchs were the heads of ancient noble families, and were prompt to take advantage of any weakness in the Central Government to make themselves practically independent princes. The old nobility was, however, extinguished in the Hyksos wars, and from the time of the New Empire the nomes were purely administrative districts ruled by royal governors, who still bore the title of nomarchs. In the time of the Ptolemies the chief officer of the nome was the strategos, under whom the nomarch was a subordinate official charged with supervising the collection of taxes and other financial matters. In general there were some 42 nomes, 22 in Upper and 20 in Lower Egypt, but the number was not invariable. So far as is at present known, the number of the nomes never fell below 36, nor exceeded 47. Consult: Duemichen, Geschichte des alten Aegyptens (Berlin, 1878); Budge, A History of Egypt (New York, 1902); Brugsch, Geographie des alten Aegyptens (Leipzig, 1857); Dictionnaire geographique de l'ancienne Egypte (Leipzig, 1879-80); Egypt Exploration Fund, An Atlas of Ancient Egypt (2d ed., London, 1894).
NOME. A term used in the ancient Greek music to denote any melody determined by inviolable rules.
NOME, nōm. The largest city of Alaska, in the Northern District; situated at the mouth of the Snake River, 13 miles west of Cape Nome, on the north shore of Norton Sound, Bering Sea (Map: Alaska, C 3). It is the centre of the productive Cape Nome gold-mining district, which extends west along the coast for about 20 miles from Cape Nome. In the fall of 1898 the small streams in the vicinity were prospected with promising results, and in the following summer the creek diggings were being actively operated when the news of the rich beach deposits, first discovered in January, 1899, though their importance remained unrecognized until July, caused a rush to the beach, where about 2000 men were working by October. The output of the district for 1900 was more than $5,000,000, and in 1901 it was estimated at $7,000,000. During this period a ‘mushroom’ settlement of tents, first called Anvil City, had sprung up. This town was gradually replaced by a permanent city of frame structures after the arrival in June, 1899, of the first consignment of lumber. In the early days the matter of food and fuel supplies was a source of great anxiety; and the unsanitary conditions due to the level and undrained site of the town, its scanty water-supply, and the climatic changes resulted in considerable sickness. There now exists a fully organized city, compactly built over half of its length along the beach, with a municipal government, fire and police departments, sewerage, water, and electric-
