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Necessairement. Necessarily, needs, of necessitie, of force.

Necessitaire: com. Needie, necessitous; or, as Necessaire. Necessité: f. Necessitie, need; a hard strait, narrow pinch, great pressure, vrgent occasion. Les necessités de nature. Th' easing, or purging of the bodie; such things as must needs be done. Chemise de necessité. A charmed shirt which (as some imagine) preserues men in battailes, and eases women in their trauell; so tearmed, because tis not to bee vsed but in times of extreame necessitie. Necessité est la moitie de raison: Prov. We say that necessitie hath no law. Necessité fait trotter les vieilles: Pro. Need makes th' old wife trot (say we.) Necessité rend magnanime le coüard, & le pusillanime: Prov. Necessitie addes mettall to the mea-*cooke; makes the coward grow couragious. Tel a necessité qui ne s'en vante pas: Prov. Some are in greater want then they will vaunt of.

Necessité: m. ée: f. Vrged, pressed, inforced, compelled, by necessitie.

Necessiter. To necessitate; to vrge, presse, constraine, compell, force by necessitie.

Necessiteux: m. euse: f. Necessitous, needie, poore, indigent, beggerlie, in want.

Nectar: m. Nectar; the drinke of the Gods.

Nectar: m. are: f. Of Nectar; most sweet as Nectar.

Nectarin: m. ine: f. Nectarine, of Nectar, diuinely sweet, as Nectar.

Necyomance: f. Diuination by conference with dead bodies raised.

Neésle. Gros de neésle. A peece of coyne thats worth about iij. d. sterl. Nef: f. A ship; a sayle, a vessell for the sea; also, the bodie of a Church.

Neffle: f. A Medler, or Open-arse.

Nefflier: m. A Medler tree.

Negatif: m. Negatiue, inficiatiue, denying, saying nay.

Negation: f. A negation, deniall, inficiation, denying, nay.

Negative: f. A negatiue; deniall, nay.

Negatoire: com. Negatorie, inficiatorie, negatiue, denying.

Negligemment. Negligently, retchlessely, carelesly, heedlesly; idlely, sloathfully, sleepily. Tout est fait negligemment là ou l'vn a l'autre s'attend: Prov. While one another trusts the worke is left vndone; (and so between two stooles the taile goes to the ground.)

Negligence: f. Negligence; retchlesnesse, carelesneße, heedlesnesse; neglect; sloath, lazinesse, lithernesse, sleepinesse, drowsinesse.

Negligent. Negligent; retchlesse, carelesse; slacke, remisse; lazie, lither, idle, sloathfull; drowsie, sleepie.

Negliger. To neglect, despise, regard lightly, passe ouer sleightly, make small account of, set little by; also, to be negligent, retchlesse, carelesse; heedlesse; to slug it, to looke ill vnto.

Negoce: m. A businesse, affaire; charge, imployment; occupying, trafficke, dealing; labour, trouble, comber.

Negociateur: m. A Negociator; trader, dealer; factor, Agent, Solicitor; follower, or manager of businesses.

Negociation: f. Negociation, imployment, handling of affaires, managing of busineßes; trafficke, dealing.

Negocié: m. ée: f. Negociated; handled, managed; traded, or dealt in; solicited, followed.

Negocier. To negociate; manage businesses, handle affaires, follow causes; deale, trafficke, trade in matters.

Negocieux: m. euse: f. Busie, occupied, euer in action, euer dealing, much imployed, full of businesse.

Negotiation; &c. as Negociation; &c. Negre: com. A Negro, a Moore.

Negrier: m. A certaine wild vine that yeelds a blacke grape.

Negriez. as Negrier; Also, the blacke grapes thereof.

Negroeil. as Nigroil. Neige: f. Snow. Neiges d'antan. Things past, forgotten, or out of date long agoe. Neige en rosmarin. The besprinkling of a Rosemarie branch with salt, or froathie creame. Questions de neige. Foolish questions, idle, and friuolous demaunds. Il a pissé en beaucoup de neiges: Prov. Hee hath outliued many a bitter Winter.

Neiger. To snow.

Neigeux: m. euse: f. Snowie, full of snow.

Neigre: com. Duskie, swart, blackish, of the colour of a Negro.

Nele: f. Cockle (growing among corne.)

Nelle. Seeke Neésle. Neller. To varnish, enamell, or glaze with the stuffe Nelleure. Nelleure: f. An enamell, varnish, or glazing, one part whereof is of fine siluer, two of copper, and three of lead; also, a varnishing, or enamelling withall.

Nemorale: f. The wood Tortoise.

Nendea. No indeed-law, marrie no forsooth; (a womans oath, or negatiue.)

Nenuphard. as Nenuphar. Nenuphar: m. Nenuphar; the Water Lillie, or water Rose. Nenuphar blanc. The white water Lillie. Nenuphar iaulne. The yellow water Lillie, yellow water Rose.

Nepheu. Looke Neveu. Nephretique passion. Paine in the reines, by grauell, or the stone.

Nephritide. The same; also, the stone, or grauell setled in the reines.

Nephrocartaticon. (in stead of Nephrocatarticon) Physicke that purgeth the reines: ¶Rab. Neptunales: f. Neptunes feasts, or holy-dayes.

Neptune: f. Neptune; the God of the sea.

Neptunien: m. enne: f. Of the seas nature, of the sea.

Neptunois: m. oise: f. as Neptunien. Neraut: m. A certaine vine whose wood and grapes are verie blacke: it is lesse hurt by frosts then any other, and yeelds a verie deepe-red wine.

Nerée. (The name of a God of the sea; hence also) the sea.

Neret. le sol neret. Is about a quarter lesse then the Tournois, or, one part in six, more then halfe the Parisian; for 60 s. nerets are worth 36 s. of Paris.

Nerf: m. A Synnow; (and thence, might, strength, force, power;) also, any band of yron wherewith a prisoner is fettered.
  Les nerfs. The knuckles that sticke out on the backe of a booke.
  Nerf caverneux. A mans yard.
  Nerf de cerf. A Stags pizzle.
  Nerf feru. (Is in a man) frenzie, or madnesse; (in a horse) a sinew sprung in the knee, or some other ioynt of the leg.