Mid. N. D. II. i. 55, 56.
Cp. ‘By his neesings a light doth shine,’ Job xli. 18; nook-shotten, shot into a corner, used in Cheshire of cheese put aside from the rest as inferior:
... but I will sell my dukedom
To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion.
Hen. V, III. v. 12-14.
Nay-word, a by-word; orts, remnants, scraps, especially of food; peat, a term of endearment, a pet; pick-thank, a flatterer, a tale-bearer, a mischief-maker; plash, a puddle, a small pool; pink, adj. and vb. small, to make small, to contract, especially to contract the eyes: ‘Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne,’ A. and C. II. vii. 121; poach, potch, to poke, especially with the fingers, to thrust; pomewater, a large kind of apple; quat, a pimple; rack, flying clouds, thin broken clouds driven by the wind:
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face.
Sonn. xxxiii. 5, 6.