A Nost, I. crasis of _an Oste_, or Kiln; frequent in Kent, where
_Hop-oste_ is the kiln for drying hops. 'Oost or East: the same that
kiln or kill, Somersetshire, and elsewhere in the west,' Ray. So
_Brykhost_ is a Brick-kiln in Old Parish-Book of _Wye_ in Kent, 34 H.
VIII. 'We call _est_ or _oft_ the place in the house, where the smoke
ariseth; and in some manors _austrum_ or _ostrum_ is that, where a
fixed chimney or flew anciently hath been,' Ley, in Hearne's Cur.
Disc. p. 27. _Mannors_ here means, I suppose manor-houses, as is
common in the north. Hence _Haister_, for which see Northumb. Book, p.
415. 417. and Chaucer, v. Estris.
Noumbles. 11. 13. Entrails of any beast, but confined now to those
of a deer. I suspect a crasis in the case, quasi _an Umble_, singular
for what is plural now, from Lat. _Umbilicus_. We at this day both
say and write _Umbles_. _Nombles_, MS. Ed. 12. where it is _Nomblys
of the venyson_, as if there were other Nomblys beside. The Fr. write
Nombles.
Non. 68. no. Chaucer. A.S. [Anglo-Saxon: nan].
Nyme. 114. take, _recipe_. Sax. niman. Chaucer. used in MS. Ed.
throughout. See Junius. v. Nim.
Notys. 144. Wallenotes, 157. So _Not_, MS. Ed. II. 30. Chaucer. Belg.
Note.
Nysebek. 173. a dish. quasi, nice for the _Bec_, or Mouth.
Nazt, nozt. MS. Ed. 37. not.