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 * brassent: Prov. Clownes intertaine one another coldly, Gentlemen courteously.

Noblement. Nobly, generously, Gentleman-like; worthily, gallantly, couragiously, freely.  Terre tenuë noblement. Land held by Knights seruice, or some other Gentlemanlie tenure.

Noblesse: f. Nobilitie, gentrie, generousnesse, gentlemanlinesse; also, a noble inheritance, or house.  La noblesse (d'vn Royaulme.) The Gentrie, or Gentlemen (of a Kingdome) what ranke soeuer they hold, or what title soeuer they haue.

Noc. Con, Turned backward (as our Tnuc) to be the leße [*or lesse] offensiue to chast eares.

Nocher: m. A Pilot, or Steeres-man; the Mariner that directs, or gouerns, the course of a ship.  Le vent, la tempeste, & l'orage, monstrent du nocher le courage: Prov. The wind and tempest being outragious, trie whether the Pilot be couragious.

Nocturne: com. Nightlie, by night, in the night time.

Nodeux: m. euse: f. Knottie, knobbie, full of knurres, ioynts, or hard bunches.

Nodosité: f. Knottinesse, knobbinesse.

Noë. as Nouë. Noel: m. Christmas; the feast of the Natiuitie of our Sauiour; also, a Christmas Caroll; See Nouël. À Noel au perron, à Pasques au tison: Prov. At Christmas in the Sunne, at Easter by the fire (you must warme you.)  Tant crie on Noel qu'il vient: Prov. So long is Christmas cried that at length it comes; Looke Venir. Noër. To swimme; or to gird, or iert, forward in swimming; (an old word.)

Noeud. as Neud. Noeuf. as Neuf. Noïalliere: f. A Pepinnerie, or part of an Orchard, wherin the kernells, or stones of seuerall fruits are set, or sowed for increase.

Noïau. as Noyau. Noïé: m. ée: f. Drowned; whirkened, ouerwhelmed, as with water.

Noïer. as Noyer. Noif: f. Snow: ¶Norm. Noir: m. Blacke colour; blacking.  Le noir. Blacke game; as the wild swine, &c.

Noir: m. noire: f. Blacke, sable; darke, obscure.  Des noirs cappets; ou chapeaux noirs. A certaine hearbe whose blacke flowers resemble small hats; Dioscorides, and Plinie, call it Lonchitis; but Mathiolus protests he neuer knew that any man had found it.  Bestes noires. Wild swine.  Bise noire. A North-east wind blowing in close weather.  Monnoye noire. Brasse, copper, or yron coyne, vnsiluered.  Pierre noire. Blacke Oaker, or the blacke marking-*stone.  Veine noire. Looke Veine. Vin noir. Th' oldest, thickest, and deepest-coloured, red wine.  Il n'est si Diable qu'il est noir. He is not so bad as he lookes for; he is not so curst, furious, or vntractable, as he seemes to be.  Noire geline pond blanc oeuf: Pro. A blacke Hen layes a white egge; many a foule woman brings forth a faire child.

Noirastre: com. Blackish, obscure, duskie, sootie; ouercast. Noirault: m. aulde: f. Swart, browne, dunne, duskie, somewhat blacke.

Noir-beau. A kind of dog.

Noir-brun. A blacke-browne, or darke-browne colour.  Noir-brun enfumé. as Couleur d'Enfer, (vnder Enfer.)

Noirceur: f. Blacknesse, obscuritie, darknesse.

Noirci: m. ie: f. Blacked, blackened; darkened, obscured, offuscated, ouercast.

Noircir. To blacke, blacken; bleach, darken, obscure, offuscate, ouercast.

Noircissant. Blacking; darkening, obscuring.

Noircissement: m. A blacking; darkening, obscuring, offuscating, ouercasting.

Noircisseur: m. A blacker, blackener; bleacher, darkener, obscurer.

Noircissure: f. Blacknesse, darknesse, obscuritie; swartnesse, blackishnesse, brownesse; also, as Noircissement.

Noirelet: m. ette: f. as Noiret. Noiret: m. ette: f. Blackish, duskie, obscure, sootie, swart, browne, dunne.

Noireté: f. as Noirceur. Noireton: m. onne: f. as Noiret; or, A little blacke.

Noirettes: f. Blackish clifts; also, small Wallnut trees.

Noir-mordant. (The name of) a great, and verie venomous blacke Spider.

Noirté. as Noirceur. Noir-ver: m. A wilding; or an apple, or peare that is not perfectly ripe: ¶Norm. Noise: f. A brabble, brawle, debate, wrangle, squabble, chiding, altercation, scoulding; a quarell, strife, oddes, variance, difference, discord, or disagreemēt, in words; also, a noise, bruit, rumbling, sturre, hurrie, coyle, hurli-*burlie.  Cercher noises pour noisettes. To pick a quarell vpon a small occasion.  Qui femme a noise a: Prov. He that a wife hath strife hath.

Noiselier: m. A hasel; a hasel nut, or small nut tree.

Noiselle: f. A hasel nut, or small nut.

Noiser. To brawle, chide, scould, brabble, squabble, wrangle, brangle, fall at odds, or be at variance, with; goe to suit, or hold debate, against.

Noisette: f. A small nut, or hasel nut; also, a Filbeard; also, a squabbling, or small debate; a contention of little importance.  Noisette des Indes. The drunken Date, called by the Arabians Fausel, and of some vse in Physicke.  Cercher noises pour noisettes. as vnder Noise. Noiseux: m. euse: f. Contentious, debatefull, quarelsome, litigious, troublesome, brabbling, wrangling, most vnquiet.

Noisif: m. iue: f. as Noiseux. Noisille: f. A small nut, or hasel nut.  Casser la noisille. To cog a Die.

Noisiller: m. A hasel, or small nut tree.

Noisillier: m. ere: f. Full of, stored with, small nuts.

Noisillon: m. A hasel nut, a small nut.  Noisillons des Dattes. Little Date stones.

Noix: f. A Wallnut; also, the first bone of th' instup; the huckle bone. La noix d'vne arbaleste. The nut of a Crossebow. Noix de Cyprés. A cypres nut, or clog. Noix galle, ou de galles. A Gall; also, an Oake-apple. Noix Indique. Th' Indian nut Cocus (an excellent fruit.) Noix Iuglande. A Wallnut. Noix de Iupiter. The same; called so in old time.