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HAMPSHIRE GLOSSART. 63 Not [not], sh. a gnat. Ex. 'We ought to have *un painted afore the noU he ahout' — viz. the summer. *They nots he so terrifying.* — N.H. Not [not], adj. a not cow is a cow without horns. Cf. not-heed in Chaucer ProL 109.— -Wise, New Foreaty p. 186. Not, adj. in good condition. Ex. * Not field ; 7iot com ; not sheep.* — J. But the last example may have the meaning of the preceding. — W. H. 0. Notch [noch], sb. 'To take the notches out of the scythes,* is to give money to mowers in the harvest-fields, when one is out shooting. — N. and Q. 1st Ser. x. 401. Nabbly [nub-li], adj. having knohs or lumps. Ex. * Nubbly coals.* A field ploughed wet, when dried is said to be nubbly.--J. See Knub. Nunch [nunsh], sb. lunch. I have never heard this meal called by another name. — N. and Q. 1, x. 120. See Moor. — Halliwell. But see Nuncheon. Nuncheon [bun'shun], sb. luncheon. *Ak. Miss Austen (from Hants) uses it. ' I left London this morning at eight o'clock ; and the only ten minutes I spent out of my chaise procured me a nuncheon at Marlborough.' — Sense and Sensibility, vol. iii. ch. 8. The word nuncheon is used in Hampshire for the meal between breakfast and dinner. — W. H. 0. Nnncle [nankl], sb. uncle. *Ak. Nnther [nudh'ur], adv. mispronunciation of neither. — J. Nut-stinger [nut-sting-ur], sb, a grub which bores a hole in nuts. — W. Nye [nei], sb. a brood of pheasants. — Cooper (who spells it ni). In the New Forest they say * an eye of pheasants.' — Wise. Which seems correct. Cfl Eyrie, and cf. nid, French.— W. H. C. Obedience [ubee'dyens], sb. a curtsey. Ex. * I made my obedience to him.'— N. H. . Odds [odz], sb. pi. concern; business; consequence. Ex. "Taint no . odds to you'=It is no business of yours. * 'T weren't no odds to he that he lost it ' = It was of no consequence to him to lose it. — N. H. Odds, v. a. to alter. Ex. < I can't odds *un.*— K H. Odments [od'ments], sb. pi. odd things. — J. Of [ov], phr. used for with. Ex. Tve no acquaintance o/him.* — J. Offer-up [auf'ur-up], v. a. to try, to prove, to ascertain how a thing fits, or looks. Ex. * Let's offer 'un ttp ' of a picture, or looking- glass, or such like. — ^N. H. Oils [oilz], barley-oils, sb. pi. the beard or prickles. — Lisle.