NAMBOODY, a town of Hindustan, in the province of Aurungabad. It belongs to the Mahrattas, and is sixteen miles north from Ahmednuggur. Long. 73. 3. E. Lat. 19. 15. N. NAME denotes a word by which men have agreed to express some idea, or which serves to denote or signify a thing or a subject spoken of. This the grammarians usually call a noun, nomen, though their noun is not of quite so much extent as our name. Seneca (de Beneficiis, lib. ii.) observes, that there are a great number of things which have no name, and which, therefore, we are forced to call by other borrowed names. Ingens est, says he, rerum copia sine nomine, quas cum propriis appellationibus signare non possumus, alienis accommodatis utimur; which may show why, in the course of this work, we frequently give various senses to the same word.