NOWANUGGUR, a town of India, peninsula of Katywar, province of Guzerat, 310 miles N.W. of Bombay.
It stands on a creek indenting the S. shore of the Gulf of Cutch; and carries on a great trade, being the principal place of the district of Hallar, which is estimated to contain a population of 207,680. The town itself is nearly 4 miles in circuit, and is celebrated for its manufactures of fine cloth, as well as for the dyes given to that article. Copper ore has been discovered in a range of hills in the vicinity.
NOX, one of the most ancient deities among the heathens, and the personification of Night. She was daughter of Chaos, and from her union with her brother Erebus, she gave birth to the Day and the Light. She was also the mother of the Parcae, Hesperides, Dreams; of Discord, Death, Momus, Fraud, &c. Nox is called by some of the poets the mother of all things, of gods as well as of men; and Homer makes her the subducer of gods and men, Zeus himself being awed by her. (Il. xiv.) She was worshipped with great solemnity by the ancients, and had a famous statue, executed by Rhocus, in the temple of Diana at Ephesus. It was usual to offer her a black sheep, as she was the mother of the Furies; and a cock was also presented to her, as that bird proclaims the approach of day during the darkness of the night. She is represented as mounted on a chariot, and covered with a veil bespangled with stars. The constellations generally went before her as her constant messengers. Sometimes she is seen holding under her arms two children, one of which is black, representing Death, and the other white, representing Sleep. Some of the poets have described her as a woman veiled in mourning, crowned with poppies, and on a chariot drawn by owls and bats. (See Hesiod, Theog.; Euripides, Orestes and Ion; also Pausanias.)