NIPPER-KIN. A tumbler; a drinking vessel.
NIPPERED. Turning a key in the inside of a door, from the outside, with a peculiar pair of forceps or nippers. Hotel-thieves use nippers to enter rooms after the inmates have gone to sleep.
NIPPERS. An instrument for turning a key on the outside of the door, used by hotel-thieves.
NIQUE. Contempt; don't care.
NISH. Keep quiet; be still.
NIX. Nothing.
NOB. One who stands at the head; a king; a man of rank.
NOBLERS. Confederates of thimble-riggers, who appear to play, to induce the flats to try their luck with the "little joker."
NOCKY BOY. A simpleton.