NAZY. Drunken. Nazy cove or mort; a drunken rogue or harlot. Nazy nabs; drunken coxcombs.
NEB, or NIB. The bill of a bird, and the slit of a pen. Figuratively, the face and mouth of a woman; as, She holds up her neb: she holds up her mouth to be kissed.
NECK STAMPER. The boy who collects the pots belonging to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses.
NECK VERSE. Formerly the persons claiming the benefit of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin manuscript psalter: this saving them from the gallows, was termed their neck verse: it was the first verse of the fiftyfirst psalm, Miserere mei,&c.
NECK WEED. Hemp.
NEEDLE POINT. A sharper.
NEGLIGEE. A woman's undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a
neggledigee.
NEGROE. A black-a-moor: figuratively used for a slave.
I'll be no man's negro; I will be no man's slave.
NEGROE'S HEADS. Brown leaves delivered to the ships in
ordinary.
NESCIO. He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand any thing. After the senate house examination for degrees, the students proceed to the schools, to be questioned by the proctor. According to custom immemorial the answers MUST be Nescio. The following is a translated specimen: