An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

NIRL, s.
1. A crumb, S.
2. A small knot, S. B.
3. A puny dwarfish person, S. B.

Teut. knorre, tuber, E. knurle.

Nirled, adj. Stunted; applied to trees, Loth.

NIRLES, s. pl. A species of measles, S. which has no appropriate name in E.
Montgomerie.

NISBIT, s. The iron that passes across the nose of a horse, and joins the branks together, Ang.

From neis, nose, and bit.

To NYTE, v. n. To deny.
Douglas.

Isl. neit-a, Dan. naegt-er, id.

To NYTE, v. a. To strike smartly.
V. [Knoit].

NITHER, NIDDER, adj. Nether, S.