Nab, C, a promontory in a lake.
“It’s o’ _nabs_ an’ neuks is Windermer’ Watter.”
Said by a Coniston Man.
Neb, S and C, nose, beak.
“Gae tak this bonnie _neb_ o’ mine,
That picks amang the corn,
An’ gi’e’t to the Duke o’ Hamilton,
To be a touting horn.”
Old Song—Robin Redbreast’s Testament.
Neàf, C, the nave of a wheel.
“T’ fells spreead oot fray a centre like t’ spooaks of a wheel fray t’
_neàf_.”—A Langdale Statesman.
Neif, or Neive, S and C, the hand, or fist.
“Sweet knight I kiss thy _neif_.”
_Shakspeare._ King Henry IV.
“What’s a gowpen o’ glaur? It’s just twa _neive_ fu’s o’
clarts!”—_Wilson._ Noctes Ambrosianæ.
Nick’t i’ t’ heid, C, non compos mentis.
“Toakin sike mafflement! Ye mun be _nick’t i’ t’ heead_.”
A Coniston landlady to a chattering guest.
No’but, C, nothing but, only.
“He’s but a simplish sooart of a body,
’At thinks there’s _no’but_ ya kind o’ shoddy.”
_W. Bowness._ Brough Hill Fair.
Nowte ’at dowe, C, nothing of ability, fit for nothing.
“In o’ her flegmagaries donn’d,
What is she?—_nowte ’at dowe_!”
_Anderson._ Betty Brown.