Nesh, "tender and nesh" (IP[337],b), succulent, juicy.

Nest, see Feather.

New Guise, see Guise.

New Jet, see Jet.

New Year, "in the worship of the new year" (IP[334],c), i.e. at the next jollification.

Nil, see Suffer.

Nine stocks, "sit in nine stocks" (R[220],d). Mr. Magnus thinks the meaning of this somewhat obscure sentence to be that the culprit shall be sentenced to the stocks nine times running; note the exigency of a rhyme to mine locks.

Ninnat (R., passim), ne will not.

Nold, "The skitb[r]ains nold not" (R[267],b)—"for she nolde suffer" (N[45]a), would not be—n[e w]old: cf. Namnot, etc.