Neck Stamper.  The boy who collects the pots belonging
  to an alehouse, sent out with beer to private houses.

Neck verse.  Formerly the persons claiming the benefit
  of clergy were obliged to read a verse in a Latin
  manuscript psalter:  this saving them from the gallows, was
  termed their neck verse:  it was the first verse of the
  fiftyfirst psalm, Miserere mei,&c.

Neck Weed. Hemp.

Needle point.  A sharper.

Negligee.  A woman’s undressed gown, Vulgarly termed a
  neggledigee.

NEGROE.  A black-a-moor:  figuratively used for a slave. 
  I’ll be no man’s negro; I will be no man’s slave.

NEGROE’S heads.  Brown leaves delivered to the ships in
  ordinary.

Nescio.  He sports a Nescio; he pretends not to understand
  any thing.  After the senate house examination for
  degrees, the students proceed to the schools, to be
  questioned by the proctor.  According to custom
  immemorial the answers must be Nescio.  The following is
  a translated specimen: 

    Ques.  What is your name?—­Ans.  I do not know. 
    Ques.  What is the name of this university?—­Ans.  I do not
     know. 
    Ques.  Who was your father?-Ans.  I do not know. 
     This last is probably the only true answer of the three!

Nettled. Teized, provoked, out of temper.  He or she has
  pissed on a nettle; said of one who is peevish or out of
  temper.

New college students.  Golden scholars, silver bachelors,
  and leaden masters.

New drop.  The scaffold used at Newgate for hanging
  of criminals; which dropping down, leaves them
  suspended.  By this improvement, the use of that vulgar
  vehicle, a cart, is entirely left off.

New light.  One of the new light; a methodist.

Newgate bird.  A thief or sharper, frequently caged in
  Newgate.

Newgate solicitor.  A petty fogging and roguish attorney,
  who attends the gaols to assist villains in evading justice.

NEWMAN’S lift.  The gallows.

NEWMAN’S tea gardens.  Newgate.

NEWMAN’S hotel.  Newgate.

To nick.  To win at dice, to hit the mark just in the nick
  of time, or at the critical moment.

Nick.  Old nick; the Devil.

Nickname.  A name given in ridicule or contempt:  from
  the French nom de niqne.  Niqne is a movement of the head
  to mark a contempt for any person or thing.

Nick ninny.  A simpleton.

NICKIN, NIKEY or NIZEY.  A soft simple fellow; also a
  diminutive of Isaac.

NICKNACKS.  Toys, baubles, or curiosities.