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190 MOVE: any action or operation in life; the secret spring by which any project is conducted, as, There is a move in that business which you are not down to. To be flash to every move upon the board, is to have a general knowledge of the world, and all its numerous deceptions.

KNAP. See.

NASH. See.

PALMER. See.

PULLEN. See or.

MUFF, an epithet synonymous with mouth.

MUG, the face; a queer mug is an ugly face.

MURPHY’S COUNTENANCE, a pig’s face.

MYNABS, me, myself.

NAIL, to nail a person, is to over-reach, or take advantage of him in the course of trade or traffic; also, to rob, or steal; as, I nail’d him for (or of) his reader, I robbed him of his pocket-book; I nail’d the swell’s mantra in the push, I picked the gentleman’s pocket of his watch in the crowd, &c. A person of an over-reaching, imposing disposition, is called a nail, a dead nail, a nailing rascal, a rank needle, or a needle pointer.

NANCY, the posteriors.

NAP the BIB, to cry; as, the mollisher nap’d her bib, the woman fell a crying.