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NOMBRIL POINT

Volume 15 · 77 words · 1815 Edition

in Heraldry, is the next below the fess point, or the very centre of the escutcheon.

Supposing the escutcheon divided into two equal parts below the fess, the first of these divisions is the nombril, and the lower the base.

NAME, or NAME, in Algebra, denotes any quantity with a sign prefixed or added to it, whereby it is connected with some other quantity, upon which the whole becomes a binomial, trimomial, or the like. See ALGEBRA.