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 Nielle bastarde. Cockle, field Nigella, bastard Nigella.  Nielle blanche. White Nigella, white Gith.  Nielle des bleds. as Nielle bastarde. Nielle Citrine. The garden Nigella, whose seed is of a pale yellow, or Citron colour.  Nielle de Damas. Damaske Nigella.  Nielle domestique. Garden Nigella.  Nielle jaulne. as Nielle Citrine. Nielle noire. Blacke Nigella; (a stranger in England as well as the white one; at least our Gerard mentions neither of them.)  Nielle odorante. Ordinarie Gith, or Nigella.  Nielle Romaine. The same; called also by our Herbalists, Nigella Romana. Nielle sauvage. Wild Nigella, field Nigella.

Niellé: m. ée: f. Mildewed, blasted.

Niement: m. A denying, disaduowing; or gainsaying.

Niepce: f. as Niece. Nier. To denie, disaduow; say nay, gainsay.  Qui tout me donne tout me nie: Prov. Hee that grants me all, giues me nothing, I aske.

Niespe. An Aspen tree.

Nieu. as Nid; A neast; whence;  Oeuf nieu. A neast egge; th' egge which is continually left in a Hennes neast.

Nieur: m. A denier.

Nieuses. les n. de la maison. The sweepings of the house.

Niez. as Niais; Also, a Nias hawke; also, an airie of hawkes.

Niezer. To deale simply, or sillily; to carrie himselfe like a nouice, or ignorant noddie.

Niezeté: f. Simplicitie, sillinesse, childishnesse, ignorance, rudenesse.

Nifler. To snifter, or snuffe vp sniuell; to draw it vp by drawing in the wind.

Nigaud: m. A fop, nidget, ideot; a doult, lobcock, vaine, trifling, or loytering fellow.

Nigaude: f. A sillie, fond, idle, trifling wench.

Nigauder. as Niger. Nigauderies: f. Fopperies, fooleries, fond, idle, trifling prankes.

Nigauld. as Nigaud. Nigelle: f. Gith, Nigella, Bishops-root, S. Katherines flower; Looke Nielle. Niger. To trifle; to play the fop, or nidget.

Nigeries: f. Nidgeries, fopperies, fooleries, trifles, nifles, friuolous bables.

Nigeur: m. A nidget, fop, trifler.

Nigeuse: f. A fond, or idle wench.

Nigroil: m. The sea Breame.

Nigromance: f. Nigromancie, coniuring, the blacke Art.

Nigromancien: m. A Nigromancer, or Coniurer; one that practises the blacke Art.

Nihil. as Neant. Mettre nihil en. To disannull, annihilate, rase, blot, or strike out.

Nihil gris. A dust, or soot, which mounting vp with the smoake of furnaces wherin copper, &c, is melted, stickes to the roofe of the house; tis called Gris vntill it come to it full perfection; for then it is white, and tearmed Nihil blanc. Nihilité: f. Nullitie; the being nothing, or of no value.

Nille: f. The turning peg of a Vielle; also, the ware-band of a mill-stone.

Nimbot: m. A dwarfe, dandiprat, little skip-iacke, low dapperling, three-halfepenie horse-loafe.

Nipes: f. Trash, rags, nifles, trifles, things of a very small value. Niphleset. Membre viril: ¶Rab.

Nique. faire la nique. To mocke by nodding, or lifting vp of the chinne; or more properly, to threaten or defie, by putting the thumbe naile into the mouth, and with a ierke (from th' vpper teeth) make it to knacke.  Les maux terminez en ique font au medecin la nique: Prov. Such be Hydropique, Hectique, Paralitique, Apoplectique, Lethargique, &c, because they are hardly, or neuer, cured. Niquet. as Nique; Also, a knicke, tlicke, snap with the teeth, or fingers; a trifle, nifle, bable, matter of small value; also, as Nicquet. Niqueter. Il n'y a que niqueter. There is no cause of, or place for, mockerie; there is no fault to be found.

Nisi. soubs peine de nisi. Vnder the pain of curse, or ex-*communication.

Nissole: f. A whitish Dog-fish, which is indifferent good meat, or at least, the best of Dog-fishes.

Nitouche. faire de la saincte nitouche. To play the hypocrite, or make an innocent shew; to seeme not to thinke of, or not to care for, a most affected thing.

Nitre: m. Niter; a (Salt-resembling) substance of colour light-ruddie, or white, and full of holes like a spunge; (diuers late writers ignorantly mistake it for Salt-peeter.)  Nitre d'Afrique. A kind of light, and brittle Niter of a purple colour.  Sel Nitre. Salt-peeter candied, or fined like white Sugar-Candie.

Nitreux: m. euse: f. Of Niter, full of Niter, salt, or brackish, as Niter.

Nitriere: f. The place wherein Niter is found, or gotten.

Nitrosité: f. Nitrositie; the saltneße, brackishnesse, or sharpe tast of Niter.

Niveau: m. A Masons, or Carpenters Leuell, or Triangle; th' instrument whereby he is guided in the laying of his floores, &c; also, a Mariners sounding plummet; also, a Periwinkle (fish.)  À niveau. Leuell, euen-floored.  Au niveau de. Euen, or leuell with; directly along with; vpon the same ground, or floore.

Nivelé: m. ée: f. Leuelled; measured, squared, or laid euen by a leuell; also, sounded with a plummet.

Niveler. To leuell; to measure, square, or lay euen by a leuell; also, to sound with a plummet,

Niveleur: m. A Leueller; one that measures, or layes euen, things by a leuell.

Nivellement: m. A leuelling; also, a sounding.

Niveter. To be idle, or lazie; also, to fidge, or be fidling here and there to no manner of purpose.

Noble: m. A Noble, in money.  Vn Noble Edouard. An Edward Noble; an old English coyne of gold, worth about 15 s. sterl. Noble à la Rose. A Rose-noble.

Noble: com. Noble, of a Gentlemanlie race, of gentle bloud; also, noble, gentle, generous of humor; worthie, gallant; excellent, famous. Les Nobles. Gentlemen (of what ranke, or qualitie soeuer) are stiled thus by the French, without any such distinction (betweene Noble, and Gentle) as we make. La Noble fleur. Flower gentle, Flower amour, Flower valure. Les parties Nobles du corps. The braine, heart, liuer, and those parts of the bodie which feed, or depend on, them. Les vilains s'entretiennent, les Nobles s'em-*