noughtless, naughtless, IV, 286, 12; 287, 5: a noughtless==an oughtless, good-for-nothing, impotent.
noumbles, nowmbles, noumbles of the dere, of a do, III, 58, 32; 64, 172: frequently defined entrails; Palsgrave, praecordia, the numbles, as the heart, the splene, the lunges, and lyver. At least a part of the noumbles are the two muscles of the interior of the thighs of a deer: venatores nombles vocant frustum carnis cervinae sectum inter femora (Ducange). See the elaborate directions for breaking or undoing deer in Juliana Barnes’s Boke of Huntynge, and in Madden, Sir Gawayne and the Grene Knyȝt, vv. 1344-48 especially.
nourice, nourrice, noorice, nourry, nurice, nurische, nury, II, 322, 6, 13-17; 333, 5-7; III, 433, C 7; IV, 31, 7; 32, 3; 480, 5, 10, etc.: nurse.
nout, nolt, III, 460, 25, 36; IV, 246, 13; V, [116], 1: neat cattle.
noute-horne, a, III, 26, 87: horn of neat, ox, cow (wrongly substituted for, an oute-horne; see V, [297]).
nouthe, I, 334, 5: not.
nouther, IV, 219, 8: neither.
now, V, [78] f., 5, 24, 25: new.
noy, I, 217, 7, 12: grief.
nul, nule, I, 244, 11, 13: will not.