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Noah’s Ark (Genesis vi. 15)

was about as big as a medium-sized church, that is, from 450 to 500 feet long, from 75 to 85 feet broad, and from 45 to 50 feet high, with one window in the roof. Toy arks represent it with rows of windows on each side, which is incorrect.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Nisroch
Nit
Nitouche (St.)
Nix (mas.), Nixie (fem.)
Nixon
Nizam
Njörd
No Man is a Hero to his own Valet
No More Poles
No-Popery Riots
Noah’s Ark (Genesis vi. 15)
Noah’s Ark
Noah’s Wife [Noraida]
Noakes (John) or John o Noakes
Nob (The)
Nob of the First Water (A)
Nobs and Snobs
Noble
Noble Soul
Noblesse Oblige (French)
Noctes Ambrosianæ