2. a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.

It is no nay, there is no denying it. [Obs.] haucer.

Nay, v. t. & i. To refuse. [Obs.] Holinshed.

||Na*yaur" (?), n. (Zoöl.) A specied of wild sheep (Ovis Hodgsonii),

||native of Nepaul and Thibet. It has a dorsal mane and a white ruff

||beneath the neck.

Nayt (?), v. t. [Icel. neita.] To refuse; to deny. [Obs.] "He shall not

nayt ne deny his sin." Chaucer.

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