_Narrow_, when the Biass of the Bowl holds too much. _’Tis all Narrow_, said by the Butchers one to another when their Meat proves not so good as expected. _A Narrow-soul’d Fellow_, poor or Mean-spirited, stingy. _Narrow or near search or Escape, watch him narrowly or nearly. Of a Narrow_ or slender Fortune. _Nask_, c. or _Naskin_, c. A Prison or Bridewell. _The old Nask_, c. the City Bridewell. _The new Nask_, c. Clerkenwell Bridewell. _Tuttle Nask_, c. the Bridewell in Tuttle-Fields. _He Napt it at the Nask_, c. he was Lasht at Bridewell. _Natural_, c. a Mistress, a Wench; also a Fool. _Natural-children_, Bastards. Mr. _Nawpost_, a foolish Fellow. _Nay-word_, a common By-word, or Proverb. _Nazie_, c. Drunken. _Nazie-cove_, c. a Drunkard. _Nazy-nabs_, c. Drunken Coxcombs. _Neb_, the Bill of a Bird, and the slit or point of a Pen. _She holds up her Neb_, she turns up her Snout to be Kist. _Neck-stamper_, c. the Pot-Boy at a Tavern or Ale-house. _Neck-verse_, a Favor (formerly) indulged to the Clergy only, but (now) to the Laity also, to mitigate the Rigor of the Letter of the Law, as in Man-slaughter, _&c_. Reading a Verse out of an old Manuscript Latin Psalter, (tho’ the Book now used by the Ordinary is the same Printed in an old English Character) saves the Criminal’s Life. Nay now even the Women (by a late Act of Parliament) have (in a manner) the benefit of their Clergy, tho’ not so much as put to Read; for in such Cases where the Men are allow’d it; the Women are of course sizz’d in the Fist, without running the risque of a Halter by not Reading. _Negro_ } { Flat. _Hawk_ } _Nos’d_, { Hook’d. _Roman_ } { Rais’d in the middle like _Kingston Bridge_. _Needle-point_, c. a Sharper. _Neither-Vert_, all sorts of Under-wood. _Neighborly_, Friendly, Kind, Loving, Obliging. _You Live a great way off good Neighbors_, to him, that is the Trumpet of his own Praises. _Nestlings_, Canary-Birds, brought up by Hand. _What a Nestling you keep_, how restless and uneasy you are. _Nest of Rabbets._ _Nettled_, Teiz’d, provoked, made uneasy. _He has pist upon a Nettle_, he is very uneasy, or much out of Humor. _In Dock, out Nettle_, upon the change of Places, when one is no sooner out, but another is in his Place. _Nice_, squeemish, precise. _More nice than wise_, _a Sir Courtly Nice_, a silly empty, gay, foolish Fellow. _Nickum_, c. a. Sharper; also a Rooking Ale-house or Innkeeper, Vintner, or any Retailer. _Nick it_, to win at Dice, to hit the Mark, to Drink the pin to or button. _Old Nick_, the Devil. _Nick and Froth built the Pye at Aldgate_, sharping in the Reckonings and cheating in the Measure built that (once) Noted House. _Nickum-poop_, a Fool, also a silly soft, Uxorious Fellow. _Nick-ninny_, an empty Fellow, a meer Cod’s Head. _Nig_, c. the Clippings of Money. _Nigler_, c. a Clipper. _Nigging_, c. Clipping. _Nigling_, c. accompanying with a Woman. _Night-Magistrate_, a Constable.