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<h1>The Letter N</h1>
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<h2>NAB</h2>
<p>a Hat, Cap, or Head, also a
Coxcomb. <i class="eg">Ill nab ye</i>, I'll have
your Hat or Cap. <i class="eg">Nim the Nab</i>, steal
the Hat or Cap. <i class="eg">Nabbed</i>, apprehended,
taken or arrested.</p>
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<h2>NAB <i>Cheat</i></h2>
<p>a Hat.</p>
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<h2>NAB-<i>Girder</i></h2>
<p>a Bridle.</p>
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<h2>NAN</h2>
<p>a Servant-maid.</p>
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<h2>NANNY-<i>House</i></h2>
<p>a Bawdy-house.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> NAP</h2>
<p>by cheating with the Dice
to ecure one chance; also a Clap or
Pox, and a short sleep, <i class="eg">Nap the Wiper</i>,
steal the Hankerchief. <i class="eg">You have napt
it</i>, You are Clapt.</p>
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<h2>NAPPER</h2>
<p>a Cheat, or Thief.</p>
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<h2>NAPPER</h2>
<p><i>of Naps</i>, a sheep-stealer.</p>
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<h2>NAPPY-<i>Ale</i></h2>
<p>very strong, heady.</p>
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<h2>NASK</h2>
<h2>or <i>Naskin</i></h2>
<p>a Prison or Bridewell.
<i class="eg">The new Nask</i>, Clerkenwell
Bridewell: <i class="eg">Tuttle Nask</i>, the Bridewell
in Tuttle-Fields: <i class="eg">He napt it at the
Nask</i>; he was lasht at Bridewell.</p>
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<h2>NATURAL</h2>
<p>a Mistress, a Wench.</p>
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<h2>NAY-<i>Word</i></h2>
<p>a By-word, or Proverb.</p>
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<h2>NAZIE</h2>
<p>Drunken.</p>
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<h2>NAZIE-<i>Cove</i></h2>
<p>a Drunkard.</p>
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<h2>NAZY-<i>Mort</i></h2>
<p>a she Drunkard.</p>
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<h2>NAZY-<i>Nabs</i></h2>
<p>Drunken Coxcombs.</p>
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<h2>NECK-<i>Stamper</i></h2>
<p>the Pot-Boy at a
Tavern or Ale-house.</p>
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<h2>NEEDLE-<i>Point</i></h2>
<p>a Sharper.</p>
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<h2>NETTLED</h2>
<p>tiezed, provoked, made
uneasy.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> NICK <i>it</i></h2>
<p>to win at Dice, to hit
the Mark.</p>
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<h2>NICKUM</h2>
<p>a Sharper, also a rooking
Ale house or Inn-keeper,Vintner, or
any Retailer.</p>
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<h2>NICKUM-<i>Poop</i></h2>
<p>a Fool, also a silly,
soft, uxorious Fellow.</p>
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<h2>NICK-<i>Ninny</i></h2>
<p>an emty Fellow, a
meer Gods-head.</p>
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<h2>NIG</h2>
<p>the clippings of Money.</p>
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<h2>NIGGING</h2>
<p>Clipping.</p>
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<h2>NIGGLER</h2>
<p>a Clipper.</p>
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<h2>NIGGLING</h2>
<p>accompanying with a
Woman.</p>
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<h2>NIGHT-<i>Magistrate</i></h2>
<p>a Constable.</p>
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<h2>NIGHT-<i>Walker</i></h2>
<p>a Bellman; also a
light Woman; a Thief, a Rogue.</p>
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<h2>NIGIT</h2>
<p><i>qu.</i> an Ideot, i.e. a Fool.</p>
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<h2>NIGMENOG</h2>
<p>a very silly fellow.</p>
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<h2>NIKIN</h2>
<p>a Natural, or very soft
Creature.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> NIM</h2>
<p>to steal.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> NIM</h2>
<p>or whip off or away any thing;
<i class="eg">To Num a Togeman</i>, to steal a
Cloack. <i class="eg">To Nim a Cloak</i>, to cut off the
Buttons in a Crowd, to whip it off a
Man's Shoulders.</p>
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<h2>NIM <i>Gimmer</i></h2>
<p>a Doctor, Surgeon,
Apothecary, or any one that cures a
Clap or a Pox.</p>
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<h2>NINNY</h2>
<p>a canting, whining Beggar;
also a Fool.</p>
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<h2>NIP</h2>
<p>a Cheat.</p>
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<h2><i>To</i> NIP</h2>
<p>to pinch or sharp any thing.
<i class="eg">Nip a Bung</i>, to cut a Purse.</p>
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<h2>NIPPS</h2>
<p>the Shears with which
Money was wont to be clipt.</p>
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<h2>NIZY</h2>
<p>a Fool or Coxcomb.</p>
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<h2>NOB</h2>
<p>a Head.</p>
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<h2>NOCKY</h2>
<p>a silly, dull Fellow.</p>
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<h2>NODDLE</h2>
<p>the Head.</p>
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<h2>NODDY</h2>
<p>a Fool. <i class="eg">Knave Noddy</i>, a
Game on the Cards.</p>
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<h2>NOOZED</h2>
<p>or <i class="eg">caught in a Nooze</i>,
married; also hanged.</p>
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<h2>NOPE</h2>
<p>a Blow, a Knock on the
Pate; as <i class="eg">We hit him a Nope on the Costard</i>.</p>
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<h2>NOSE-<i>Gent</i></h2>
<p>a Recluse or Nun.</p>
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<h2>NUB</h2>
<p>the Neck; also Coition.</p>
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<h2>NUBBING</h2>
<p>hanging. <i class="eg">To be nubbed</i>,
to be hanged.</p>
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<h2>NUBBING-<i>Cheat</i></h2>
<p>the Gallows.</p>
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<h2>NUBBING-<i>Cove</i></h2>
<p>the Hangman.</p>
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<h2>NUBBING-<i>Ken</i></h2>
<p>the Sessions House.</p>
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<h2>NUG</h2>
<p>a Word of Love, as <i class="eg">my Dear
Nug</i>, my Dear Love.</p>
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<h2>NUMMS</h2>
<p>a sham, or Collar-shirt,
to hide the other when dirty.</p>
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<h2>NUT-<i>crackers</i></h2>
<p>a Pillory, <i class="eg">The Cull
lookt thro' the Nut-crackers</i>, i.e. The
Rogue stood in the Pillory.</p>
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