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Nau. (Nauts Plurall.) A gutter on the top, or side of a house.

Navage. as Naufrage. Naval: m. ale: f. Navall; of or belonging to ships, or a nauie of ships.

Naucelle. as Nasselle. Naucheux: m. euse: f. Queasie-stomacked; readie, or apt to vomit.

Naudin: m. A noddie, ninnie, goosecap, coxcombe: ¶Norm. Nave. as Navire; A ship.

Naveau: m. The Navew gentle, French Navew, long Rape (a sauorie root.) Naveaux. Vsed sometimes in equiuocation of Nez-*veaux; naturall calues, fooles bred, aßes by birth. Naveau blanc de Iardin. Th'ordinarie Rape, or Turnep. Naveau rond. A Turnep. Naveau sauvage. Rampions.

Navée: f. vne Navée de. A ship full of.

Navet: m. The small Navew gentle, the least (and daintiest) kind of the French Navew. Gros navet. The great, and bitter root of white Brionie; or the hearbe itselfe.

Nauette: f. Rape-seed; also, as Naveau; also, a Weavers shittle. Iouër de la navette. Looke Iouër. Nauf: m. A ship.

Naufrage: m. Shipwracke.

Naufrageux: m. euse: f. Wracking, shipwrack-bringing.

Naviculaire. Os na. The second bone of th'instup, so tearmed because fashioned like a boat.

Navigable: com. Nauigable, sailable, passable by shipping.

Navigage: m. as Navigation; Also, a Nauie, or Fleet.

Navigation: f. Nauigation, sayling.

Navigé: m. ée: f. Nauigated, sailed.

Naviger. To nauigate, or saile.

Navire: com. A ship; a barke, saile, or vessell for the sea; also, a Nauie, or Fleet of ships; also, the hollow, or ball of the hand.

Naulage: m. Fraught, or fare; the money paied for passage in a ship.

Naulager. To pay his fraught, passage, fare.

Naule. as Naulage. Nauleage. The same; whence; Barques de nauleage; Wafters, or passage barkes.

Naumachie: f. A fight at sea.

Navré: m. ée: f. Wounded, hurt; afflicted, vexed; nipped sorely, wrung extreamely.

Navrer. To wound, hurt; bruise, wring sore, nip cruelly, pinch extreamely; vex, afflict.

Navreur: m. A wounder, or hurter. Navreur de gens. A cheating shifter, common borrower, cousener of all he deales with.

Navrure: f. A wound, hurt, bloudwipe, sore nip, shrewd pinch, cruell blow; also, a wounding, or hurting.

Nauseatif: m. iue: f. Loathsome, against the stomacke, that makes one readie to spue.

Nausée: f. A will, or offer, to vomit, but no vomit; a disposition, without power, to spue; also, a loathing, or abhorring, of meats, &c.

Nausiclete: m. The Maister, or owner of a ship: ¶Rab. Naut: m. as Nau; A gutter.

Nautil. as Nautile.

Nautile. The shellie Pourcountrell, made somewhat like

a round, and open boat, and swimming euer (except in time of danger) with her bellie, or th' inside of her shell, vpwards.

Nautonnier: m. A Shipman, Saylor, Mariner.

Naux. festes naux. for festes de Noel: ¶Poict. Nayer en l'eau. as Noyer. Nayf. Seeke Naïf. Nazal: m. The nose-peece of a helmet; the part thereof which couereth the nose.

Nazard: m. A kind of harsh, or iarring wind-instrument.

Nazard: m. arde: f. Jarring.

Nazardant. Fillipping, or flirting on the nose; also, frumping; breaking ieasts vpon; also, iarring.

Nazarde. as Nasarde; Also, a kind of peare.

Nazarder. Seeke Nasarder. Nazdecapre. Goodman Goats-nose: ¶Rab. Naze: f. A nose: ¶Gasc. Nazeaux. Looke Naseaux. Naziller. To root with the nose; also, to thrust his nose into euerie companie.

Nazilleux: m. euse: f. Well nosed; or, hauing a goodlie nose.

Né: m. née: f. Borne; bred; risen, descended, proceeding from; growne, issuing, or come out of. Teste de cerf bien née. A Stags head that hath all it rights. Né tout coiffé. A verie rich, or a verie bashfull, man. Né à tout le poil (le Diable l'a chié en volant.) A lustie cutter, worthie gallant, braue man (Ironically.)

Ne. (Adverb.) Not. Qu'il ne soit ainsi, voicy la raison. as the Latine Quin ita sit: viz. That it is so: (Held more elegant then without ne, which to make negatiue the word pas must be added after soit.)

Ne. (Conjunct.) Nor, neither.

Neance: f. A deniall, denying, or gainsaying; a Trauers in law.

Neant. Nothing, nought; (a word euer set downe in the beginning, or end of an account which is not allowed.) Chose de neant. A trifle, nifle, toy; a friuolous, vnseasonable, or sleight matter. Mettre à neant. To abrogate, antiquate, abolish, avoid, make void; also, to ruine, subuert, rase, deface, ouerthrow. Tourner à neant. The same. Pour neant demande conseil qui ne le veut croire: Prov. In vaine th' incredulous counsell asketh. Pour neant recule qui malheur attend: Prov. They that ill lucke attend giue backe vnto no end. Pour neant va au bois qui marrein ne cognoist: Prov. To no purpose goes he, who knowes not wood, vnto the wood. Qui voit enfant il voit neant: Prov. Man (sayes the Psalmist) being weighed vpon the balance, is lighter then nothing it selfe; what then can a child be but the nought of nothing?

Neantise: f. Trifling, idlenesse, basenesse, cowardise, vnworthinesse.

Neant-moins. Neuerthelesse, notwithstanding; and yet.

Neant-prix. A verie low rate, a verie small price.

Neble: f. A (little) clowd; a mist, a fog.

Nebuleux: m. euse f. Clowdie; mistie, foggie.

Nebulon: m. A knaue, rascall, villaine, varlet, paultrie companion, scoundrell, scuruie fellow.

Necessaire: com. Necessarie, needfull; vrgent; vneuitable, vnauoidable.