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 Il ne faut apprendre aux poissons à nager: Prov. We must not teach a fish to swimme; a scholler to read, a maister to worke, &c.

Nageur: m. A swimmer.  Les bons nageurs sont à la fin noyez: Prov. Good swimmers at the length feed Haddocks.

Nageure: f. A swimming; a floating.

Nagueres; ou, n'agueres. Not long since, now of late, ere-while, euen now.

Nai: f. as Nef; A ship.

Naïf: m. naïfve: f. Liuelie, quicke; naturall, kindlie, right, proper, true, no way counterfeit.  L'humeur naïfve. The radicall humor.

Naïfvement. Liuely, naturally, properly, rightly, truely, in it owne kind.

Naïfver. To represent in liuelie colours, to present in it owne kind; to describe rightly, or properly; to make seeme quicke, or it selfe.

Naïfveté: f. Liuelinesse, quicknesse, kindlinesse, proprietie, naturalnesse.

Nain: m. A dwarfe, or dandiprat, an elfe, or twattle; one thats no higher then three horse-loaues.

Naine: f. A she dwarfe, or woman dwarfe.

Naintre, & Naintresse. as Nain, & Naine. Naïsé: m. ée: f. Steeped, or soaked (as hempe) in water.

Naïser. To steepe, or soake (hempe) in water.

Naïssance: f. Birth; a beginning, springing, rising, first appearing; also, ones auncient inheritance.

Naissant. son propre naissant. His auncient inheritance; land whereto he was borne, or comes by descent.  Naissant conventionnel. Money giuen, by a father, or mother, to be imployed on a purchase for their child; or, the land purchased with such money.

Naissant: m. ante: f. Beginning, springing, rising, first appearing, or comming into the world.  Heritage naissant. The land whereto one was borne; land that comes by lineall descent.

Naistre. To be borne, bred, or ingendred, of; to rise, proceed, grow, spring, take beginning, from; to be produced, or brought forth, by.

Naïzer. as Naïser. Nambot: m. A dwarfe; elfe, little starueling; a dandiprat, or low dapperling.

Namps: m. Mouables; chattells that moue, or may bee remoued; also, distresses.  Morts namps. Goods, houshold-stuffe, any dead mouables, or chaffer which may be remoued.  Vifs namps. Cattell, beasts, foule, fish; any goods that liue, or moue of themselues.

Nampt: m. A distresse; a beast, or mouable distrained; also, a beast seized for Trespasse, or Damage fesant; also, a seisure, or distraining; (in which sence our common Lawyers vse Naam.)  Obligation par nampt. A bond, and pawne to boot.

Namptir, & Namptissement. as Nantir, & Nantissement. Nancelle: f. as Nasselle. Nani; ou, Nanin. No, not so, by no meanes.

Nanti: m. ie: f. Gotten, seised on; possessed of; also, deliuered into the possession, or hands of; also, affected vnto; fastened, or tied on; appointed, or pointed out, for; Or, to whom a thing is affected; on whom it is fastened; for whom it is appointed, by Order, or in ordinarie course, of iustice. Crediteur nanti de gage. That hath a pawne for his better securitie. Rente nantie. Dont le contract a esté exhibé au Seigneur, ou à ses Officers, pour acquerir droict reel, & hypotheque. Sergent nanti de deniers. Into whose hands the money, made by the sale of land, or goods in execution, is put.

Nantilles: f. Freckles.

Nantir. To consigne, lay downe, deliuer into the hands of; to giue a seisin, or possession of; to tye fast; affect, appoint, or point out, one thing for th' indemnitie, or aßurance, of another.  Se nantir de. To seize on, to get the possession of.

Nantissement: m. A consignation, deliuerie, laying downe of; a yeelding of seisin, a giuing of possession, vnto; also, a publicke, or legall affectation, fastening, appointing, or pointing out of one thing for the securitie, or indemnitie of another; also, a seisure, seising, or getting the possession of.  Nantissement de l'execution. sont les gages prins par Execution sur vn debteur. Napel: m. Helmet-flower, great Monkes-hood; (a venomous hearbe.)

Naphe. Eau de naphe. Orange-flower water.

Naphte: f. (Held to be liquid, or soft, Bitumen, or the strayning therof, is in truth) a soft, & sulphurous earth, or mould, which is easily inflamed by any fire thats neere it, and once fired will not be quenched, especially not by water.

Napleux: m. euse: f. Pockie, full of the (French) pockes.

Napolier: m. The Burre docke, Clote Burre, great Burre.

Napoller. as Napolier. Nappe: f. A table-cloth.

Naquaire. A lowd instrument of Musicke, somewhat resembling a Hoboy.

Naque. as Nacre. Naque-mouche: m. A Flie-catcher; a gaping hoydon, an idle gull.

Naquer. To gnaw, or bite often and with a harsh sound, as a dog doth when hee gnawes his itching ballockes; whence, ce chien naque le cul; (which is also an equiuocation to, n'a que le cul.)

Naquet: m. The boy that serues, or stops the ball after the first bound, to make a better chace, at Tennis; a Court-keeper, or Tennis Court-keepers boy.

Naqueter. To serue (or stop) a ball at Tennis; also, to wait at a great mans doore; (and thence) also, to obserue duetifully, attend on obsequiously  Naqueter les dents. To chatter the teeth.  Naqueter de la queuë. To wag the taile.

Narcaphthe: f. An Aromaticall Indian wood, called by some, red Stirax.

Narcisse: m. Narcissus, Primrose peerelesse; the Daffodill, Daffodillie, or Daffodowndillie.  Narcisse Constantinopolitain. The double-flowred Daffodill of Constantinople; also, the white sea Daffodill, or white sea Onion.

Narcotique: com. Stupefactiue, benumming, depriuing of sence.

Nard: m. Spike, or Spikenard; (an hearbe.) Nard bastard. Lauender Spike. Nard Celtique. French Spikenard, mountaine Spikenard. Nard Gaulois. The same; or a bastard kind thereof, which we also call French Spikenard. Nard Indois. Indian Spikenard. Nard d'Italie. Lauender Spike; especially the com-*