NAPKIN - a handkerchief
NATURAL - an idiot
NAYWARD - towards denial
NAYWORD - a catch-word, by-word
NEB - the beak
NEELD - a needle
NEIF - hand
NEPHEW - a grandson
NETHER-STOCKS - stockings
NEXT - nearest
NICE - foolish
NICK - score or reckoning
NICK - to brand with folly
NIGHTED - black as night
NIGHT-RULE - nightly solemnity
NINE MEN’S MORRIS - a place set apart for a Moorish dance
NINNY - a fool, jester
NOBILITY - nobleness
NOBLE - a coin, worth 6s 8d
NODDY - a dolt
NONCE - for the nonce, corrupted from ‘for then once,’
NOOK-SHOTTEN - indented with bays and creeks
NOURISH - a nurse
NOVUM - a game at dice
NOWL - head
NUTHOOK - a hook for pulling down nuts, hence a thief
NUZZLING, pr p nosing