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of the empress were Montijoyeaux.
   BOUSTRAPA is a compound of Bou[logne], Stra[sbourg], and Pa[ris], the places of his noted escapade.
   RANTIPOLE = harum-scarum. half-fool and half-madman.
   VERHUEL. A patronymic, which cannot be here explained.
    There are some very curious numerical coincidences connected with Napoleon III. and Eugénie. The last complete year of their reign was 1869. (In 1870 Napoleon was dethroned and exiled.)
   Now, if to the year of coronation (1852), you add either the birth of Napoleon, or the birth of Eugénie, or the capitulation of Paris, or the date of marriage, the sum will always be 1869. For example:

1852 Coronation	1852	1852	1852
1809 Birth of Napoleon.	1826 Birth of Eugénie.	1853 Date of marriage.	1871 Capitulation of Paris.
1869	1869	1869	1869

   And if to the year of marriage (1853) these dates are added, they will give 1870, the fatal year.

Napping To catch one napping. To find a person unprepared or off his guard. (Anglo-Saxon, hnappung, slumbering.)

Nappy Ale Strong ale is so called because it makes one nappy, or because it contains a nap or frothy head.

Naraka The hell of the Hindus. It has twenty-eight divisions, in some of which the victims are mangled by ravens and owls; in others they will be doomed to swallow cakes boiling hot, or walk over burning sands. Each division has its name: Rurava (fearful) is for liars and false witnesses; Rodha (obstruction) for those who plunder a town, kill a cow, or strangle a man; Sûkara (swine) for drunkards and stealers of gold; etc.

Narcissa in the Night Thoughts, was Elizabeth Lee, Dr. Young's step-daughter. In Night iii. the poet says she was clandestinely buried at Montpelier, because, being a Protestant, she was “denied the charity that dogs enjoy” (For Pope's Narcissa see Nancy .)

Narcissus (The). This charming flower is named from the son of Cephisus. This beautiful youth saw his reflection in a fountain, and thought it the presiding nymph of the place. He tried to reach it, and jumped into the fountain, where he died. The nymphs came to take up the body that they might pay it funeral honours, but found only a flower, which they called Narcissus, after the name of the son of Cephisus. (Ovid's Metamorphoses, iii. 346, etc.)
   Plutarch says the plant is called Narcissus from the Greek narke (numbness), and that it is properly narcosis, meaning the plant which produces numbness or palsy.

“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen ...
Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair.
That likest thy Narcissus are?”
Milton: Comus, 235, etc.

    Echo fell in love with Narcissus.

Nardac The highest title of honour in the realm of Lilliput. Gulliver received this distinction for carrying off the whole fleet of the Blefuscudians. (Swift: Gulliver's Travels; Voyage to Lilliput, v.)

Narrow House or Home. A coffin; the grave. Gray calls the grave a “narrow cell.”

“Each in his narrow cell for ever laid,
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.”
Elegy.

Narrowdale Noon (Till). To defer a matter till Narrowdale noon is to defer it indefinitely. “Christmas is coming.” Ans., “So is Narrowdale Noon.” Your ... was deferred or delayed, like Narrowdale Noon. Narrowdale is in Derbyshire. The Dovedale is a valley about three miles long, and nowhere more than a quarter of a mile broad. It is approached from the north by a “narrow dale,” in which dwell a few cotters, who never see the sun all the winter, and when its beams first pierce the dale in the spring it is only for a few minutes in the afternoon.

Narses (2 syl.). A Roman general against the Goths; the terror of children. (473-568.) (See Bogie .)

“The name of Narses was the formidable sound with which the Assyrian mothers were accustomed to terrify their infants.”- Gibbon: Decline and Fall, etc., viii. 219.

Narwhal Drinking-cups made of the bone