MUZZLE, a Halter to tie a­bout the Nose of a Horse; the Mouth of a Gun; a Device of Leather, to put about the Mouth of a Dog.

To MUZZLE, to cover, or secure the Mouth with a Muzzle.

MYRIAD, the Number of 10 Thousand.

MYRRH, an Arabian Gum from the Myrrh Tree.

MYRTLE, a kind of Shrub.

MYSTERIOUS, full of My­stery, obscure.

MYSTERY, a thing conceal­ed, a secret not easy to be com­prehended, also an Art or Trade.

MYSTICAL, belonging to a Mystery.

MYTHOLOGY, the History of fabulous Deities and Heroes of Antiquity, and the Explanation of the Mysteries of the old Pa­gan Religion.

N.

To NAB, to surprise, to take one napping, to arrest, al­so to cog a Dye.

NAG, a young or little Horse.

NAIL, the Nail of a Man's Hand; also a Measure, the six­teenth part of a Yard, also an Iron Pin.

To NAIL, to fasten with Nails.

To NAIL Cannon, is to drive an Iron Spike into the Touch­hole, by which means the Can­non is rendered unserviceable for the present.

NAKED, unclothed, bare

NAME, the Appellation of any thing.

NAMELESS, without a Name, not named.

NAMELY, to wit, that is to say.

NAP, the hairy or shaggy part of woollen Cloth.

A NAP, a short Sleep.

NAPE, the hinder part of the Neck.

NAPLES, a City of Campania.

NAPPY ALE, pleasant and strong Ale.

NARRATION, a Relation of any particular Action or Cir­cumstances.

A NARRATIVE, a Relation, or Recital.

NARRATIVE, declarative, expressive.

NARROW, of small Breadth.

NARROWNESS, the being of small Breadth.

NASTINESS, Filthiness, Slut­tishness.

NASTY, filthy, sluttish.

NATHANIEL, a proper Name of Men.

NATION, a People; also a Country.

NATIONAL, that which con­cerns or belongs to a whole Nation.

NATIVE, belonging to one's Birth-place, natural, inbred.

A NATIVE, one born in a certain Place, or who lives where he was born.

NATIVITY, Birth, or the being born in the Time and Place.

NATURAL, belonging to, or proceeding from Nature, also easy, free, unaffected.

NATURAL DAY, the space of Twenty four Hours.

NATURAL YEAR, one en­tire Revolution of the Sun, com­prehending the Space of 365 Days, and almost Six Hours

A NATURAL, a Changeling, a Fool.

A NATURALIST, one skil­led in natural Philosophy.

To NATURALIZE, to ad­mit into the Number of natural Subjects.

NATURE, a peculiar Dispo­sition of Parts in some particular Body, the Essence of any thing with its Attributes.

NAVAL, belonging to a Ship or Navy.

NAVE, that Part in the middle of a Wheel, where the Spokes are fixed.

NAVEL, a Part on the mid­dlw of the Belly.

NAUGHT, bad, wicked, lewd.

NAUGHTINESS, Badness, Wickedness, Lewdness.

NAUGHTY, wicked, lewd.

NAVIGABLE, Water where Ships may pass, that will bear a Ship or Boat.

NAVIGATION, the Art of Sailing

NAVIGATOR, a Sea Tra­veller, a Sailor

To NAUSEATE, to have an Inclination to vomit, to loath or abhor, to be disgusted at

NAUSEOUS, going against one's Stomach, making ready to vomit, loathsome.

NAUSEOUSNESS, Loath­someness

NAVY, a Fleet, or Company of Ships.

NAZARENES, a Name gi­ven our Saviour Christ and his Disciples, from the Town of Nazareth.

NAZARITES, a Sect among the Jews.

NAY, no, nor.

NEAP, scanty, deficient.

NEAP TIDES, the Tides in the second and last Quarter of the Moon, not so high as the Spring Tides.

NEAR, nigh to, hard by.

NEARNESS, the being near to.

NEATS, all kind of Beeves, as Ox, Cow, Steer, or Heifer.

NEAT, clean, trim, cleanly, and rightly dressed, clever.

NEATS LEATHER, Leather made of the Hide of an Ox, or Cow.

NEATNESS, Cleanliness, Spruceness, Pureness.

NEBUCHADNEZZAR, a King of Babylon.

NECESSARIES, Things use­ful for human Life.

NECESSARY, needful, una­voidable, indispensible.

To NECESSITATE, to force, to compel.

NECESSITOUS, indigent, needy, poor.

NECESSITY, indispensible­ness, the State of a Thing that must needs be, also Distress, Need, Poverty, Extremity.

The NECK, the Part of the Body between the Head and the Shoulders.

NECROMANCER, a Con­jurer, Magician, or Wizard.

NECROMANCY, Conjura­tion.

NECTAR, a pleasant Liquor, feigned by the Poets to be drank by the Gods.

NECTARIN, a sort of smooth Peach

NEICE, the Daughter of a Brother, or Sister.

NEED, Necessity, Want.

NEEDFUL, necessary, useful.

NEEDINESS, Want, Poverty.

NEEDLESS, useless, unneces­sary

NEEDY, poor, indigent.

NEEDLE, a small Tool to sew withal

NEEDLE of a Mariner's Com­pass, an Iron Wire touched with a Beadstone

NEEDS, by Constraint, or Compulsion, as I needs must.