nur and spell

A game somewhat resembling trap-ball, played with a pur, which is projected into the air from a tongue of steel, called the spell or spill, by means of a spring. nuraghe nû-ra-ghê, s. pl. [Of unknown origin. ( Littré.)] Arch.: (See extract.) "The Nuraghe still exist in great numbers in Sardinia. They rise thirty or forty feet above ground, have sometimes two or three stories, each with a domed chamber, connected by spiral pa ages left in the masonry: sometimes several chambers are on the same floor, communicating by corridors. None are found in so complete a state of preservation that it can be decided whether they terminated above in a perfect or a truncated cone. They are, in general, of regular though rude masonry, but a few are of polygonal construction. They are evidently of high antiquity. To what race to ascribe them is still in dispute."-G. Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria , ii. 154. (Note 8.) Nür-em-bêrg, s. [See def.] The name of a town in Bavaria. Nuremberg-egg, subst . A peculiar oval-shaped watch or pocket-clock, so called from having been invented at Nuremberg. nürl, v . t . [Etym. doubtful; prob. connected with nur (q. v.).] To indent or flute the edges of, as of coins; to mill.