MOUSTED, powdered.
MUTEMUS CLYPEOS, &c. 'Change we our shields, and for ourselves assume
the trappings of the Greeks.'
NEB, nose.
NEBULONES NEQUISSIMI, worthless scamps.
NEC NATURALITER IDIOTA, not a born idiot.
NOLT, cattle.
NUNC INSANUS AMOR, &c. 'Love's frenzy keeps me still in war's array
Where bolts fly thick, and foemen compass me.'
NUNCUPATIVE, legally valid nomination of an heir.
OBSIDIONAL CROWN, the reward of a commander who delivered a town from
siege; here used erroneously for the reward of the soldier who first
entered a besieged city.
ORRA, odd; ORRA MAN, the man who does the odd jobs.
OUTRECUIDANCE, presumption.
O VOUS QUI BUVEZ, &c. 'O you, who drink from flagons full, From out this
happy fountain cool, Here where, upon the banks, you see Only the flocks
of silly sheep, With rustic maids for company, Who bare of foot their
wardship keep.'
OYER AND TERMINER, to hear and determine (legal, from Norman
terminology).
PAITRICK, partridge.
PALINODE, recantation.
PANGED, crammed.
PAUNIE, peacock.
PEACHED, informed against, betrayed.
PECULIUM, property.
PENETRALIA, interior.
PER CONJURATIONEM, on oath.
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