The Letter N

NAB

a Hat, Cap, or Head, also a Coxcomb. Ill nab ye, I'll have your Hat or Cap. Nim the Nab, steal the Hat or Cap. Nabbed, apprehended, taken or arrested.

NAB Cheat

a Hat.

NAB-Girder

a Bridle.

NAN

a Servant-maid.

NANNY-House

a Bawdy-house.

To NAP

by cheating with the Dice to ecure one chance; also a Clap or Pox, and a short sleep, Nap the Wiper, steal the Hankerchief. You have napt it, You are Clapt.

NAPPER

a Cheat, or Thief.

NAPPER

of Naps, a sheep-stealer.

NAPPY-Ale

very strong, heady.

NASK

or Naskin

a Prison or Bridewell. The new Nask, Clerkenwell Bridewell: Tuttle Nask, the Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields: He napt it at the Nask; he was lasht at Bridewell.

NATURAL

a Mistress, a Wench.

NAY-Word

a By-word, or Proverb.

NAZIE

Drunken.

NAZIE-Cove

a Drunkard.

NAZY-Mort

a she Drunkard.

NAZY-Nabs

Drunken Coxcombs.

NECK-Stamper

the Pot-Boy at a Tavern or Ale-house.

NEEDLE-Point

a Sharper.

NETTLED

tiezed, provoked, made uneasy.

To NICK it

to win at Dice, to hit the Mark.

NICKUM

a Sharper, also a rooking Ale house or Inn-keeper,Vintner, or any Retailer.

NICKUM-Poop

a Fool, also a silly, soft, uxorious Fellow.

NICK-Ninny

an emty Fellow, a meer Gods-head.

NIG

the clippings of Money.

NIGGING

Clipping.

NIGGLER

a Clipper.

NIGGLING

accompanying with a Woman.

NIGHT-Magistrate

a Constable.

NIGHT-Walker

a Bellman; also a light Woman; a Thief, a Rogue.

NIGIT

qu. an Ideot, i.e. a Fool.

NIGMENOG

a very silly fellow.

NIKIN

a Natural, or very soft Creature.

To NIM

to steal.

To NIM

or whip off or away any thing; To Num a Togeman, to steal a Cloack. To Nim a Cloak, to cut off the Buttons in a Crowd, to whip it off a Man's Shoulders.

NIM Gimmer

a Doctor, Surgeon, Apothecary, or any one that cures a Clap or a Pox.

NINNY

a canting, whining Beggar; also a Fool.

NIP

a Cheat.

To NIP

to pinch or sharp any thing. Nip a Bung, to cut a Purse.

NIPPS

the Shears with which Money was wont to be clipt.

NIZY

a Fool or Coxcomb.

NOB

a Head.

NOCKY

a silly, dull Fellow.

NODDLE

the Head.

NODDY

a Fool. Knave Noddy, a Game on the Cards.

NOOZED

or caught in a Nooze, married; also hanged.

NOPE

a Blow, a Knock on the Pate; as We hit him a Nope on the Costard.

NOSE-Gent

a Recluse or Nun.

NUB

the Neck; also Coition.

NUBBING

hanging. To be nubbed, to be hanged.

NUBBING-Cheat

the Gallows.

NUBBING-Cove

the Hangman.

NUBBING-Ken

the Sessions House.

NUG

a Word of Love, as my Dear Nug, my Dear Love.

NUMMS

a sham, or Collar-shirt, to hide the other when dirty.

NUT-crackers

a Pillory, The Cull lookt thro' the Nut-crackers, i.e. The Rogue stood in the Pillory.