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290 GLOSSARY
MOVE, make angry} i. 4. 275 (breeches were then also
Mow, grimace; 4. 1. 61 called 'upper-stocks'); 2. 4.
MUTINY, strife; 1. 2. n o 10
MYSTERIES, secret rites; 1. I. NICELY, punctiliously; (i) with
109 scrupulous exactness; 2. 2.
1025 (ii) by insisting on the
NATURAL, kind; 2. 1. 84 exact observance of the
NATURE, (i) the goddess per- conventions; 5. 3. 143
sonifying the forces that NIGHTMARE, conceived of as a
create the phenomena of the goblin or demon incubus;
material world; 1.1.211; 1. 3. 4. 121
2. 1; 1.4.2765 2. 2. 525 3. NIGHTED, darkened (by blind-
2.8; 4.6.134; (ii) thenatural ness); 4. 5. 13
order of things; 1. 2. 1075 NINEFOLD (fcorrupt), 'an at-
3. 6. 76; 4. 6. 86; (Hi) tendant set of nine*
human nature, the human (O.E.D.);3. 4. i2r
race; 1.2.108; 4.6.204; (iv) NOISE, rumour (cf. Tim. G.)j
character, disposition; 1. 1. 3. 6. n o
170, 2345 1. 2. 1835 1. 5. NONNY-NONNY, 'meaningless
33 (or (v)); 2. 1. 115; 2.2. refrain, formerly often used
74,9654.2. 3255.3.243; to cover indelicate allusions'
(v) natural affection between (O.E.D.); 3. 4. 99
relatives—filial affection, 1. NOTICE, recognition; 2.4. 345
I. 52; 2. 4. 1745 3. 5. 4; 3. NOTION, intellectual power; 1.
7. 85; parental affection, 4. 228
I. 2. 114; 1. 4. 269; (vi) NUNCLE, contraction of 'mine
bodily constitution, vital uncle'; usual address of
functions, natural powers, court jester to his master; 1.
natural life; 2. 4. 104, 143, 4. 105 and passim
262, 2655 3. 2. 485 3. 4. 3, NURSERY, nursing, tendance;
69; 3. 6. 965 4. 4. 12; 4. 6. 1. 1. 123
39; 4. 7. 155 (vii) natural
impulse, as opposed to the OBJECT, (i) object of love and
traditions and customs of favour; 1. 1. 213; (ii)
society; 1. 2. n
spectacle; 2. 3.17; 5. 3.237
NAUGHT (adj.), wicked; 2. 4. OBSERVANT (sb.), obsequious
130; (sb.), nothing; 4. 6. attendant; 2. 2. 101
135 OCCASION, (i) opportunity for
NAUGHTY, wicked (much attacking or fault-finding
stronger than the mod. (On.); 1. 3. 25; (ii) affairj 2.
sense); 3.4. 1105 3.7.37 I. 120
NEAT, dandified; 2. 2. 40 Oeillade, amorous glance (cf.
NECESSITY, poverty, destitu- Wiv. 1. 3. 59); 4. 5. 25
tion; 2. 4. 207; 3. 2. 70 OFFEND, (i) injure; 1. 1. 302$
NETHER-STOCKS, stockings (ii) do amiss; 1. 2.42