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 Nozzle, subs. (pugilists').—The nose: see Conk.—Grose (1785).

1871. G. Meredith, Harry Richmond, vii. 79 (1886). Fight, my merry one; she takes punishment, the prize-*fighter sang out. First blood to you, Kiomi; uncork his claret, my duck; straight at the nozzle, he sees more lamps than shine in London, I warrant.

Verb. (tailors').—1. To shrink: e.g., to nozzle the bottoms = to shrink the fronts of trousers. Also (2), to pawn.

Nth (or Nth plus one), subs. (University).—See quot.

1864. Brewer, Phrase and Fable, s.v. Nth, to the utmost degree. Thus Cut to the Nth means wholly unnoticed by a friend. The expression is taken from the index of a mathematical formula, where n stands for any number, and n plus 1 more than any number.

Nub, subs. (Old Cant).—1. The neck.—B. E. (c. 1696); Bailey (1728); Grose (1785); Matsell (1859).

2. (old).—Copulation: see Greens and Ride.—Grose (1785).

3. (Old Cant).—A husband.

Verb. (Old Cant).—To hang: see Ladder.

c.1712. Budg and Snudg Song [Farmer, Musa Pedestris (1896), 32]. When that he hath nubbed us.

1743. Fielding, Jonathan Wild, iv. ii. I am committed for the filing lay, man, and we shall be both nubbed together.

Nubbin, subs. (American).—A remnant; a small remainder.

Nubbing, subs. (Old Cant).—1. Hanging.—B. E. (c. 1696); New Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose (1785).

2. (Old Cant).—Copulation: see Greens and Ride.

Nubbing-cheat (or nubbling-chit), subs. (Old Cant).—The gallows, whence nubbing = a hanging; nubbing-cove = the hangman; and nubbing-ken = the Sessions House.—B. E. (c. 1696); New Cant. Dict. (1725); Grose (1785).

English synonyms. Abraham's balsam (in botany = a species of willow); Beilby's ball-room; Chates (chattes or chats); City stage (formerly in front of Newgate; crap; deadly never-green; derrick; forks; government sign-post; hanging-cheat; horse foaled by an acorn; hotel door-posts; the ladder; leafless-tree; mare with three legs; Moll Blood (old Scots'); morning-drop; prop (Punch and Judy); the queer-'em (queer-'un, queer-'um); scrag; scrag-squeezer; sheriffs picture-frame; squeezer; stalk (Punch and Judy); the stifler; the swing; three-legged mare; three trees; topping cheat; Tower-hill vinegar (the swordsman's block); tree that bears fruit all the year round; tree with three corners; treyning-cheat; triple-tree; Tuck'em Fair; Tyburn cross; widow; wooden-legged mare.

French synonyms. L'abbaye de Monte-à-regret (= Mount Sorrowful Church: also l'abbaye de Monte-à-rebours, and l'abbaye de Saint-Pierre = cinq pierres, the five flag-stones in front of La Roquette); la bascule; le béquille (= crutch); la béquillarde; la butte-à-regret (= Heavy-Arse-Hill); les deux mâts, or le haut mât (old); l'éschelle (= Ladder, q.v.); la fenetre (in allusion to the aperture into which falls the knife); le géant; la jambe; la