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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