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 Avantagé en nez. That hath a forward, or full-grown nose.  Avoir du nez. s'il a du nez. If he haue any wit, conceit, or iudgement.  Cela n'a point de nez. Is done foolishly, vnhandsomely, without any manner of garb; hath neither decorum without, nor sauor within, it.  Bailler sur le nez du Roy. To coyne false money.  Donner de la porte sur le nez à. To exclude, shut or keepe out; or, to shut the doore against.  Fermer l'huis au nez à. The same.  Laver le nez à. To schoole, censure, chide, reprehend, rattle soundly, reproue bitterly.  Lever le nez. To hold vp the head, pluck vp the heart, grow cheerefull, wax couragious.  Marqué sur le nez. C'est vn Mouton de Berry, il est marqué sur le nez; Looke Mouton. Mettre le nez par tout. To thrust his nose into euerie corner; busily to search into, or meddle with, euerie thing.  Se prendre au nez. To acknowledge a fault, or find himselfe in th' errour, wherewith another is charged; whence;  C'est à luy à s'en prendre au nez. He may well ynough assume that imputation; tis for him to applie that censure to himselfe; also, tis long of himselfe, he may euen thanke himselfe for it.  Se prendre au bout du nez. Looke Prendre. Pris du nez. That hath the murre, whose nose is stopped or stuffed with cold.  Refaire son nez. To picke, or gather, vp his crummes againe.  Ne regarder plus loing que le bout de son nez. To be negligent, carelesse, improuident, without any manner of forecast.  Il se retira avec vn pied de nez. He slunke away, or got him backe, with shame ynough: (sometimes pied is left out, but expressed with the hand; and then they say; Il se retira avec autant de nez.)  Saigner du nez. A mans heart to faint, or faile him; Looke Saigner. Il se tint fort par le nez de ce refus. He remembred this refusall with a desire of reuenge, although at first he forbore to take notice of it.  Ils luy torchent le nez de sa manche. They wipe his nose with his owne sleeue, his taile with his owne shirt; they allow him meat, or meanes, out of his owne money.  Tordre le nez à. To wrest, bend, or plie a thing to his owne purpose.  Viedazer le nez à. To trouble, vex, molest; baffle, abuse.  Il faut laisser son enfant morveux plustost que luy arracher le nez: Prov. Better an inconuenience then a mischiefe; let the Henne liue although she haue the pip.

Ni. vn ni A no, nay, negatiue, deniall, refusall.

Ni. Neither; Seeke Ny. Niais: m. A neastling; a young bird taken out of a neast; hence, a youngling, nouice, cunnie, ninnie, fop, noddie, cockney, dotterell, peagoose; a simple, witlesse, and vnexperienced gull; also, as Niez. La place des niais à la table. Th' vpper end (where the wealthiest, or women, are placed.)

Niaiser. Looke Niezer.

Niaiserie: f. Simplicitie, sillinesse, childishnesse, want of experience, dotterelisme, fopperie, fondnesse; also, a sillie part. Niance. as Neance. Niant: m. A denier.

Niant: m. ante: f. Denying.

Niard. faulcon niard. A Nias Faulcon.

Nice: com. Lither, lazie, sloathfull, idle; faint, slacke; dull, simple.  Action nice. An Action vpon a bare promise, without article, or couenant.  Promesse nice. A single, or bare promise, without couenant, pawne, suretie, or obligation.

Nicement. Lazily, litherly, sloathfully; faintly, slackly, slowly; dully; simply, barely, singly.

Niceté. Sloath, lithernesse, lazinesse, idlenesse; slacknesse, slownesse; simplicitie, or simpleneße.

Nicette. pucelle nicette. A slow, dull, simple, foolish, or nice girle.

Niche: f. A Niche; a hollow seat, or standing for a statue, or image, made into a wall.

Nichée. as Niée. Nicher. To neastle, build or make a neast in.

Nicheul: m. A neast-egge; th' egge thats alwayes left in a Hennes neast.

Nichil-au-dos. A doublet whose back is of courser stuffe then the forepart; and hence, any thing that makes an outward shew of goodnesse, or worth, which inwardly it wanteth, or commeth short of.

Nichilodo. The same.

Nicolas: m. Nicholas; a proper name for a man; and particularly the name of a Saint (Patron of the Ruffians, &c;) whose feast is the sixt day of December; hence;  Si l'hyver estoit outre la mer si viendra il a S. Nicolas parler: Prov. Nicotiane: f. Nicotian, Tobacco; (first sent into France by Nicot (the maker of the great French Dictionarie) in the yeare 1560, when he was Embassador Leger in Portugall.)  Petite Nicotiane. Nicotian, yellow Henbane, English Tobacco; or, as Petum femelle. Nicquet: m. A Burgonian (base) coyne, wherof three are worth 5 d. Tournois. Nid: m. A neast.  Nid d'oiseau. Goose-neast, Birds-neast, an hearbe.  Nid de la Pie. Monté iusques au nid de la Pie. At his full height; as high, or as great, as euer he can be.  Nids de Tirans. Cittadells, and Castells; tearmed so by the common people awed by them.  Il s'en va prendre la mere au nid. Looke Mere. Nid tissu oiseau envolé: Prov. We loose an opportunitie while we spend time in preparations.  À tous oiseaux leurs nids sont beaux: Prov. Euerie bird likes his owne neast; euerie man thinkes well of, or is in loue with, his owne house, &c.  Tel oiseau tel nid: Prov. A house like th' inhabitant; such bird such neast.

Nideur: f. The stench, or fulsome sauor of things broiled, or burnt.

Nidoreux: m. euse f. Smelling or sauoring of (also, fulsome as the smell of) broiled, or burnt things.

Nidorulent. as Nidoreux. Nié: m. ée: f. Denied, said nay vnto, disaduowed.

Nieblé. as Niellé: ¶Rab. Niece: f. A neece; the daughter of a brother, or sister.

Nieds. as Niez, or Niais. Niée de poussins. A brood of chickins.

Nielle: f. Blasting, or mildew, whereby corne, &c, is withered, or burnt vp; also, the hearbe Nigella, Gith, Bishops-wort, Sweet-fauor, S. Katherines flower.