N

# 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.