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Needle Valve
As colloquially used, refers to the shut-off valve in the carburettor, and is opened and shut, automatically, by the action of the float…
Nautilus
[See CANOE.] Paddle. A short kind of oar, held in the hand, and not resting in a rowlock, provided with one or two blades or palms. The…
Northern Peninsula
returning in September and October to their winter quarters. At that time an enormous proportion of the caribou killed in Newfoundland were…
Natal
The flesh of the duiker affords moderately good eating. EEL. (Anguilla vulgaris.) MEASUREMENTS, &c. -Lower jaw the longer; length of head…
Ngami
Elands are still found. Here and in Portuguese West Africa, however, they are striped. North of the Botletli River, and in Matabeleland…
Norway
Elg.- The Elk was in old times, as we learn from early writers, abundant in the forests of ancient Germany, and is still found in the vast…
Note (Table is not carried beyond)
The table is not carried beyond the sixth game, as in the next and every succeeding six games the odds recur in the same positions. The…
Note (Table is not carried beyond) (II)
The table is not carried beyond the sixth game, as in the next and every succeeding six games the odds recur in the same positions. The…
Note (Neither Tournament will be)
Neither Tournament will be played under a goal handicap, but both Tournaments shall be played without the "off-side rule." A match will…
November Handicap
won here in 1887 with the respectable burden of 8 st. 9 lb., and L'Abbesse de Jouarre, the year after her Oaks victory, was successful with…
Next (Block on which the legs were)
the block on which the legs were fixed, with their long irons protruding upwards, was placed squarely under a beam which ran across the…
Next (End of each leg-wire)
the end of each leg-wire was pushed through the thickened end of its respective femur and filed off; and these irons, when bent at proper…
Naphtha – Napier
The centre of the wheel, from which the spokes radiate. Near side. The left-hand side of the road, vehicle, horses, or driver.
Napier and Co – Neve
Breeders Produce Stakes, Sandown, iii. 407 National Rifle Assoc., iv. 35, 46 Museum, iv. 45 National Skating Assoc., see throughout…
Newall – Niedieck
Arthur, ii. 183 Miss 2., i. 92 A. iv. 214 New Farlow Casting reel, iii. 336
Nightingale – Notinan
W., iii. 392 Nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus), iii. 245-6. Ante, i. 73, 255 Nirmus cameratus, ii. 378 Lord, iii. 190 North Cotswold hounds…