niffer, n. and v., I, 203, C 10, 15; IV, 406, 24: exchange.
night-coif, III, 514, 3; 515, 1; V, [225], 4: night-cap.
night-wake, IV, 453, 3, 4: night-watch, as of a dead body, perhaps a corruption of lyke-wake.
nimble, nimle, wrongly for thimble, thimber, I, 332, E 2, F 2, G 2.
nine, the, III, 392, 8: the nine justices of the supreme criminal court of Scotland. Kinloch, A. S. B., p. 259.
ning, V, [165] f., 4, 12: nine. nine, [111], 26, is changed from ninge. In the older stages of the language, remarks Dr. Murray (Dialect of the Southern Counties of Scotland, p. 125), ng was often written for Latin gn, and vestiges of this substitution of the nasal for the liquid n are still found in the spoken dialect.
nip, III, 160, 18, 19: bit.
nires, norice, nurse. See nourice.
nist, nest, neast, V, [216], 10; [242] a, 10, 12: next.
nit, III, 465, 20: knit, fasten.