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in the same sense. N(Bsa, nasus ; A.-S. nase, ncese, nose ; Al. 

 nasa ; Isl. nos ; Dan. ncese ; Ger. nase ; Angl, nose ; Gall, nez ; It. 

 naso ; Hisp. narh. 



'■'■ Ncesa, a Scythian word from a source common to Latin and 

 the Northern tongues, it means hoth the nose and the nares or 

 nostrils, from naf, a cavity." Ihre. 



"We have in the North of England the naf or naff of the wheel. 

 A.-S, nafu. The prominent part of the centre, which is hollow. 



" Ness, a promontory of land." Halliwell. " A promontory." 

 Jamieson. 



" Nal, 7iabb, a protuberance, an elevated point, .the rocky sum- 

 mit and outermost verge of a hill (identical with knap, the brow 

 or projection of a hill. Sax. cncBp, vertex mentis ; Isl. gnop, 

 prominentia; Suio-Goth. hicsp, summitas mentis). A steep and 

 high precipice at the confluence of the Baulder and the Tees, in 

 the county of York, is called The Nabb. There is also Wab Mill, 

 in Durham." Brockett. 



Nabb, Neb, and Ness are allied. 



Examples : — 



Nabb Hill^pleonasm. In Cleveland there are "The Nabb 

 and Eston Nabb." 



The Nabb — a precipice where the Baulder joins the Tees. 



Nabb House. 



Naby— " The estate by the water." Bell. Can this be Nabb- 

 by, the dwelling by a promontory or jutting hill ? See Nabt. 



Naby. 



" The estate by the water." Bell. 



Icel. nd, nigh, near, 7ia-bud, a dwelling near, na-bui, neigh- 

 bour — ^to the "Water, Scar Beck. See Naby above. 



NicHOL Hopple. 



(Modern. Bell.) Nichol's hoppling place. 



This name, Mr. Bell's informant says, originated in the cir- 

 cumstance of old Nichol hoppling his jagger, the donkey 



on which he rode to his work at the mine daily, until he returned 



