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 Nerion. The shrub Oleander, Rose tree, Rose Lawrell, Rose bay tree.

Nerite: f. A certaine little, round, and smooth shell-fish, or sea-snaile, verie like the Periwinkle.

Nerme. Nothing.

Nerprun. Buck-thorne, way-thorne, Rhein-berries, Laxatiue Ramme.

Nerquois. Looke Narquois. Nerte: f. The Mirtle shrub.  Oiseau de nerte. The Mirtle Thrush; called so because she feeds much on Mirtle berries.

Nerver. To tye with sinewes.

Nerveures: f. Strong, or sinewie bands; hence also, as Nervins; also, welts; also, carued streakes in wood, or stone.

Nerveusement. Strongly, stifly, forcibly.

Nerveux: m. euse: f. Sinewie, full of sinewes; also, strong, stiffe, pithie, forcible.

Nervins: m. Bolt-ropes; the cords wherewith a saile is hemmed.  Les nervins des bonnettes. The latchets wherewith bonnets be fastened to a sayle.

Nervosité: f. Neruositie, sinewie strength, fulnesse of sinewes.

Nervu: m. uë: f. as Nerveux. Nes. Looke Nez. Nesple: f. A Medler, or Open-arse.

Nesplier: m. A Medler tree.

Nesquin: m. A base fellow; or as Mesquin. Nessum. as Nessun; (an old word.)

Nessun. No one, no bodie, not any.

Net: m. nette: f. Neat, cleane, pure, cleere; spotlesse, vnspotted; polished, smooth; briske, smug; faire.  Bien au net. Exactly, perfectly; also, verie neatly.  Cela est au net. That is fairely written.  Mettre au net. To cleanse, make neat, smooth or trim vp; also, to cleere, expound, expresse, explaine.  Avoir le coeur net de. To be fully resolued of, or satisfied in.

Netieures. Looke Nettieures. Netre dene. for Nostre dame. Nettelet: m. ette: f. Prettie and neat; minion, briske, smug, tricksie, smirke.

Nettement. Neatly, cleanely, purely, cleerely; smoothly, smug.

Netteté: f. Neatnesse, cleannesse, cleanlinesse, cleerenesse; puritie, sinceritie, integritie, perfect honestie.

Nettier. as Nettoyer. Nettieures: f. The sweepings of a house; any cleansings.

Nettissoir: m. A combe-brush.

Nettoyable: com. Cleansible, or cleansable.

Nettoyé: m. ée: f. Cleansed, wiped, scowred, purged, cleered, smoothed, swept.

Nettoyer. To cleanse; wipe, sweepe, scowre, purge; rub the durt, get the filth off; to cleere; smooth, make euen, or plaine.  Nettoyer au balay. To sweepe; to make cleane worke, leaue nought behind, carrie all away.

Nettoyeures. as Nettieures. Neuchu: m. uë: f. Knottie, knobbie, rough, vneuen.

Neud: m. A knot; a knob, or hard bunch; a ioynt in staulkes; a knurre, or knurle in trees; also, the chiefe point, head, summe, or clause of a matter; the principall band, or hindge whereon it rests, or hangs. Les neuds des doigts. The knuckles. Neud de la gorge. as Larigau. À dur, ou mauvais neud mauvais coing: Pro. Said when a quarelling, troublesome, or litigious fellow hath met with his match.

Neve: m. A mole, freckle, or other the like natural mark, or blemish on the bodie.

Neuëment. Simply, absolutely; immediately, forthwith.

Neveu: m. A nephew; the sonne of a brother, or sister.

Neuf: m. neufve: f. New, fresh; vncouth, strange, vnknowne, vnused, vnheard of, before.  Il est  bien neuf. He is a verie nouice; he is verie ignorant, vnexpert, raw; he hath but small experience in the world.  Faire pieds neufs. A woman to be deliuered of a child; a horse to cast his hooues.

Neuf. Nine (in number.)

Neufain: m. ine: f. Of nine; for nine dayes.

Neufaine: f. A ninth; a proportion, or the number, of nine; also, a terme, or the space, of nine dayes; also, a vow of nine dayes, or for the performance of a thing nine dayes together; also, prayers made for a dead bodie the ninth day after his decease.

Neufiesme. The ninth.  Droict de neufiesme. A ninth part of the cleere yerelie value of most of the Benefices in Britaine, exacted by the Pope.

Neufiesmement. Ninthly.

Neufme. as Neume. Neufvaine. as Neufaine; whence;  La saincte neufvaine. The nine Muses.

Neume: m. A sound, song, or close of song after an Antham; or the long holding of the last note of an Antham, &c; vsed much in the Quires of Cathedrall Churches.

Neutralité: f. Neutralitie; indifferencie; the being on neither side.

Neutralizer. se neut. To stand newter; to take neither part, helpe neither side; when two are at oddes to giue them the looking on.

Neutre: com. Newter, taking neither part, helping neither side; also, of the Newter Gender.  Corps neutre. Which is neither ill nor whole, sick nor sound.

Neuvaine. See Neufaine.

Nez: m. The nose; also, sence, or smelling; also, wit, or vnderstanding; also, disgrace, or shame. Nez d'as de treuffle. A nose like an ace of the clubs; a broad flat nose. Nez de cire. A nose of wax; a thing that may bee brought vnto any forme, wrought into any fashion, turned or changed any way. Nez coupé. Saint Anthonies nut, Bladder nut, wild Pistachoes. Nez qui coupe. A notable spirit, searching wit, piercing apprehension, sharpe vnderstanding. Haut nez. Chien de haut nez. A dog of a deepe nose, or good sent; also, a dog that hath wide narrells. À nez frotté de vinaigre. Looke Vinaigre. Le nez luy croist. Said of one that hath quietly swallowed, and basely disgested a publicke affront, or disgrace. Le nez aussi plat comme vne Andouille. A nose as flat as a Flooke (say we;) Looke Andouille. Le nez faict à manche de rasoir. A high-raisd, or hawke, nose. Le nez tourné à la friandise. Saied of a lickorous, or leacherous wench; or one thats not so good as she should be.