in poetry. See Versification.

Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Pentateuch, taking its denomination from its numbering the families of Israel.

A great part of this book is historical, relating to several remarkable passages in the Israelites march through the wilderness. It contains a distinct relation of their several movements from one place to another, or the two and forty stages through the wilderness, and many other things, whereby we are instructed and confirmed in some of the weightiest truths that have immediate reference to God and his providence in the world. But the greatest part of this book is spent in enumerating these laws and ordinances, whether civil or ceremonial, which were given to God, but not mentioned before in the preceding books.

NOMENIUS, in ornithology, a genus of birds of the order of the scolopaces; the beak of which is of a figure approaching to a cylindrical one; it is obtuse at the point, and is longer than the toes; the feet have each 4 toes, connected together. This genus comprehends the curlew, the woodcock, the great plover, and the snipe. See Curlew, &c.