NO, (Jeremiah, Ezekiel), NO-AMMON, (Nabum); a considerable city of Egypt, thought to be the name of an idol which agrees with Jupiter Ammon. The Septuagint translate the name in Ezekiel, Diospolis, "the city of Jupiter." Bochart takes it to be Thebes of Egypt; which, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, was called Diospolis. Jerome, after the Chaldee paraphrast Jonathan, supposes it to be Alexandria, named by way of anticipation; or an ancient city of that name is supposed to have stood on the spot where Alexandria was built.
No-Man's-Land, a space between the after part of the belfrey and the fore part of a ship's boat, when the said boat is stowed upon the booms, as in a deep waisted vessel. These booms are laid from the forecastle nearly to the quarter-deck, where their after ends are usually sustained by a frame called the gallows, which consists of two strong posts, about six feet high, with a cross piece reaching from one to the other, athwart ships, and serving to support the ends of those booms, masts, and yards, which lie in reserve to supply the place of others carried away, &c. The space called No-Man's-Land is used to contain any blocks, ropes, tackles, &c. which may be necessary on the forecastle. It probably derives this name from its situation, as being neither on the starboard nor larboard side of the ship, nor on the waste or forecastle; but, being situated in the middle, partakes equally of all those places.