NEVIN, vb. to name.  Gol. and Gaw., 506; Howlate, II, 3, 7.  O.N.
    nefna, Norse nevna, Dan. naevne, to name, O.E. namnian.

NIEVE, NEEFE, NEVE, sb. the hand, the fist.  O.N. hnefi, Norse
    neve, hand, fist, Shetland nev, Cu. neif, neive,
    neef.  Wall considers this an unrecorded Eng. word, which is
    possible.  Its general distribution in Scand. dial. and
    elsewhere in Scand. settlements, as Northern and Central
    England, Southern Scotland, Shetland, etc., as well as its
    absence in all other Gmc. languages, indicates, however, that
    the word is Scand. in Eng. diall.

NOUT, NOWT, sb. cattle.  O.N. naut, cattle, Norse naeut id.  Dan.
    noed, Sw. noet, Shetland nod.  In M. Sco., also written
    nolt.

NYK, NEK, vb. to shake the head in denial of anything, “to nyk
    with nay.”  Gol. and Gaw, 115; Philotus, 32.  Norse nikka, to
    bow slightly, nikk, a slight bow, Sw. neka, to deny, say
    no, M.E. nicken.

NYTE, vb. to deny.  Gol. and Gaw., 889; Wyntoun, VIII, 2, 16.  O.N.
    naeita, to deny, refuse, Norse neitta, neikta, nekta,
    id., neiting, a denial, neitan, id., Dan. naegte.

ONDING, sb. terror.  Psalms, LXXXVIII, 15.  See ding.

ONFARRAND, adj. ill-looking.  Douglas, III, 250, 26.  See farrand.

ON LOFT, adv. up.  Gol. and Gaw., 485; Bruce, XIII, 652.  O.N.
    a loft, up into the air.  See Skeat aloft.  Sco.  Pro. 27,
    upon loft, up.

ON LOFT, adv. aloud.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 338.  See above.

OUTWALE, sb. the best, the choice.  Lyndsay, XX, 4.  Eng. out +
    O.N. val; similar formation to Norse udvalg, utval.

PIRRYE, sb. whirlwind.  Sat.  P., I, 178.  See bir.

POCKNET, sb. from O.N. poki, pouch and net, a net. 
    A Dumfriesshire word.  Not found in any Sco. text but given by
    Worsaae, p. 260, and in Jamieson, where the following
    description is given of pocknet fishing. 
      This is performed by fixing stakes or stours, as they are
      called, in the sand either in the channel of a river, or
      in the sand which is dry at low water.  These stours are
      fixed in a line across the tideway at a distance of 46
      inches from each other, about three feet high above the
      sand, and between every two of these stours is fixed a
      pocknet, tied by a rope to the top of each stour.” 
    P. Dorneck, Dumr.  Statist.  Acc., II, 1.

QUEY, QUOY, sb. a young cow, a yearling.  Douglas, II, 178, 19; II,
    299, 8; Burns, 595.  O.N.  Norse kviga, Dan. dial. kvie.  Cp. 
    Shetland hwaei and kwaei.  Cu. why, wheye (guttural
    wh).