نہاٴي nihāʼī H s. f. An anvil.

نکاس ni-kās निःकास S̱. s. m. 1. Skirts, suburbs, outer boundary of land attached to a town, &c. issue, outgoing, discharge, outlet, vent, source, origin, spring. 2. Adjustment of accounts, accomplishment.

نيارا nyārā निरालय S̱. 1. adj. Apart, aloof, separate, distinct, different, extraordinary, un- common. 2. s. m. The scoria left after refining gold, silver, or other metals, from which a minute portion of those metals is obtainable. نياري nyāre, adv. Apart.

نسيان nisyān A (from نسي Heb. ) s. m. Obli- vion, forgetfulness. ¶ nasyān, adj. Very for- getful. A. P. نسياني nasyān-ī, s. f. Forgetfulness.

نوشانوش nosh-ā-nosh P s. Repeated drinking, carousing.

نرسنگا nar-singā नलशृंग S̱. s. m. A horn (mu- sical), a wind instrument. S. نرسنگهـ नरसिंह or नृसिंह nar-singh or nr̤i- singh, s. m. The name of the fourth Avatār or incarnation of Vish̤ṇu, which happened in the Satya-yuga, upon the following occasion. Hiranya-kasipu, an impious prince, was en- raged at his son Prahlād for worshipping the Almighty, and tried every means of destroying him, by poison, by throwing him into fire, into the ocean, &c. yet Prahlād lived. "If your God is present every where," says Hiranya- kasipu, "let him come from an alabaster pil- lar;" on which Nar-singha appeared, with the lower part of a man and the upper of a lion,

نعم niʼaﻌm A s. plur. (of نعمت Heb. ) 1. Fa- vours, benefits. 2. Pleasure, comfort, affluence, ease or blessing (of life). ¶ نعم البدل niﻌma-l-badal, Blessings of the change, excellent the change! change for the better.

ناگاهي nā-gāh-ī P adj. Sudden.

نياٴي nyāʼī न्यायी S̱. s. m. 1. A distributor of justice. 2. A logician.

نوپر नूपुर nūpur S s. f. A ring hollowed, about a finger and a half in breadth, used as an orna- ment for the ankles and toes. (In it are bits of copper or iron, of the size of a vetch, which cause it to sound like a number of small bells, when the wearer walks).