List of Old English Words in the OED/NI

Old English	sp	English
Nib	n	Something small or pointed. 2. the beak of a bird; the point of a pen. 3. a small projection or cog on the underside of a tile for fixing to a batten. 4. the upper edge of a plasterer's running mould.
Nib	vb	To furnish with a nib.
Nibbed	adj	Having a nib.
Nickname	n	From an eke-name ( eke meaning ‘addition’: see eke), misinterpreted, by wrong division, as a neke name. 2. a name added to or instead of an ordinary name. 3. a name given in contempt, derision, or familiarity to some person, nation, or object.
Nickname	vb	To give a nickname.
Niddering	adj	OE. 'nithing' a coward. 2. cowardly, faithless, infamous.
Nift	n	A niece. 2. " a forth-nift." -- a grand niece.
Nigh	adv	Nearby, near to, at hand, nigh at hand, , close, in the proximity.
Nigh	adj	Not distant or remote in place or time; near 2. not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring.
Nigh	phr	"Nigh On" - near, just on, about. 2. nigh upon,
Nigh	phr	"Nothing Nigh" - nothing like.
Nigh-but	adj	Almost, nearly, just on; as, 'he was nigh-but twenty-one'.
Nigh-by	adv	Nearby, close, near to, almost, near at hand.
Nigh-ebbed	adj	Almost; as, as the nigh-ebbed sea, in the windless.
Nighen	vb	To come near.
Nigh-hand	adv	Nearby, near at hand,near to. 2. near or close to a person or place.
Nighish	adj	Near to, approaching, coming close to.
Nighly	adv	Nearly, almost nearly, closely. 2. niggardly, sparingly.
Nighness	n	Nearness in place, time or possibility. 2. proximity. 3. nearness of kinship or blood.
Nighsome	adj	Favourable, benevolent, gracious, courteous, courtly.
Nighsomeness	n	A state or situation: somewhat near or approaching in time, place, possibility. 2. state of kinship or family ties.
Night	n	The period of darkness between sunset and sunrise. 2. the beginning of this period; nightfall. 3. the darkness of night; the dark. 4. a condition or time of obscurity, ignorance, sinfulness, misfortune, etc.: the long night of European history known asthe Dark Ages. 5. ( sometimes initial capital letter ) an evening used or set aside for a particular event, celebration, or other special purpose: a night on the town; poker night; New Year's Night. 6. the period of darkness each 24 hours between sunset and sunrise, as distinct from day. 7. the occurrence of this period considered as a unit: four nights later they left. 8. the weather conditions of the night: a clear night. 9. the activity or experience of a person during a night. 10. nightfall or dusk. 11. a state or period of gloom, ignorance, etc.
Night	adj	Of or pertaining to night: the night hours. 2. occurring, appearing, or seen at night: a night raid; a night bloomer. 3. used or designed to be used at night: to take a night coach; the night entrance. 4. working at night: night nurse; the night shift. 5. active at night: the night feeders of the jungle.
Night	phr	"All Night Long" - throughout the whole night.
Night	phr	"Be a Night Owl" - to habitually go to bed late.
Night	phr	"By Night" - in or during the night; at night time.
Night	phr	By Night and Day" - unceasingly; all the time, at any time, always, continuously, continually; night in, night out, working night and day (until the job was done).
Night	phr	"Call It a Night" - end what one is doing at night.
Night	phr	"Dead of the Night" - darkest part of the night.
Night	adj	"Fly-by-night" as, a fly-by-night seller.
Night	phr	"Have a Good Night" - have a good time; enjoy the entertainment, and sleep well.
Night	phr	"Have a One-night Stand" - an occasion when a performer or team of them (especially in vaudeville) expects to perform at a theater for a single evening. 2. (idiomatic) A single sexual encounter between two individuals, where at least one of the parties has no immediate intention or expectation of establishing a longer-term sexual or romantic relationship. As the phrase implies, the relationship lasts for only one night. 3. (idiomatic) A person with whom one shares a single sexual encounter.
Night	phr	"Make a Night of It": to go out enjoy and celebrate for most of the night.
Night	phr	"Morning After the Night Before" - have a hangover.
Night	phr	"Night and Day" - unceasingly; all the time, continuously, continually; night in, night out, working night and day (until the job was done). 2. day and night.
Night	phr	Night in, Night out" - all the time, continuously. 2. night after night.
Night	phr	"Night is Young" - the project is only at a very early stage.
Night	phr	"Night of the Long Knives" - The Nazis murder of the Brownshirts and some catholic leaders in 1934. 2. the Saxons, lead by Hengist, murder of Welsh chieftains in 472
Night	phr	"Of Night" - at nightfall; in the evening; usually from six p.m. to midnight.
Night	phr	"Of Nights" - (done) by night (habitually).
Night	phr	"Of the Night" - by night, during the night, at night.
Night	phr	"Ships in the Night" - persons who fail to meet up.
Night	phr	"Spend a Sleepless night" - to worry long and deeply about something.
Night	phr	"The First Night" - the first publc performance of a play or show.
Night	phr	"The Night" - the first on which a play is publicly performed.
Night	phr	"The Night is Young" - the endeavour or undertaking has just begun.
Night	phr	"Will be Alright on the Night" - an expression of optimism that in the end everything will go well or be OK.
Night-after-night	adv	Nightly, night by night, many nights
Night and day	adv	Always, ceaselessly, continually, day after day, perpetuating, successively, unceasingly.
Night-bale	n	Hurt, harm, misfortune that comes during or at night.
Night-bell	n	A bell in a doctor's house, telephone exchange, etc used for emergency calls.
Night-bird	n	A nocturnal bird such as an owl. 2. a bad character who prowls about at night. 3. one who habitually keeps late hours.
Night-biter	n	An animal, esp. an insect such as a mosquito, that bites during the night.
Night-black	adj	Very black.
Night-blind	adj	Unable to se clearly in dim light.
Night-blindness	n	The inability to see clearly in dim light; due to a deficiency of vitamin A or to a retinal disorder, moon-blindness, nyctalopia.
Night-born	adj	Taking place or happening at night.
Night-break	n	The first appearance of darkness at dusk.
Night-clothes	n	Sleeping attire.
Night-dark	adj	Very black.
Night-eater	n	The flea (slang).
Nighted	pp	Made black or dark as night. 2. pertaining to the night. 3. overtaken by night; benighted.
Nighten	vb	To grow dark; to become night.
Nighter	n	One who carries out activities at or during the night; as, a 'first nighter'.
Nightern	adj	Nocturnal, hesternal, nightish, nightly.
Night-eyed	adj	capable of seeing at night.
Night-fall	n	Dusk, sundown.
Nightfall	n	The end of the day, dusk, the night-long, sundown, sunset, evening, crespusule.
Night-fallen	adj	Pertaining to night-fall.
Night-faring	adj	Going or travelling by night.
Night-fear	n	A morbid fear of night-time. 2. frightened by the (real and imaginary) sounds of night.
Night-fighter	n	n aeroplane used for interception at night.
Night-flight	n	fleeing under the darkness of night.
Night-fire	n	The will o' the wisp.
Night-foe	n	A chillblain.
Night-glass	n	A short telescope for night observation at sea.
Nightglow	n	The faint light emitted by the upper atmosphere at night.
Night-hag	n	An ugly old female demon or witch who appears during the night. 2. a witch credited with flying on a broomstick.
Night-hawker	n	One who travels about selling food/ wares at night.
Night-helm	n	The covering of night; night's curtain.
Night-house	n	A tavern, pub that stays open all night.
Nightingale	n	A small brownish migratory bird of the thrush family, Luscinia megarhynchos, the male bird known for its beautiful song at night.
Nightish	adj	Pertaining to the night, nocturnal.
Night-laden	adj	Heavy with the darkness of night. 2. burdened with the problems of life during the dark hours.
Nightland	n	Night time. 2. a land and its people who experience months of darkness during winter, such as Iceland and Greenland.
Night latch	n	A spring latch operated on the inside by a knob and from outside buy a key.
Nightless	adj	Having no night; eternal daytime or daylight.
Night-life	n	The activity of people seeking night-time diversions, as at nightclubs, theatres, and the like. 2. the entertainment available at night-time for clubs etc.
Night-lifer	n	One who seeks entertainment at night-times in clubs, etc.
Night-light	n	A faint light perceptible at night. 2. a light which burns or shines at night.
Night-like	adj	Resembling night in some aspects.
Nightline	n	A fishing line with baited hooks left in the water to catch fish over night. 2. late night TV show or program featuring current affairs, esp. political matters.
Night-long	adj	That lasts or has lasted during the night.
Night-long	adv	All night, during the whole night.
Nightly	adj	Happening, done or existing in the night. 2. recurring every night.
Nightly	adv	Every night; of the night.
Night-lying	n	Bedtime.
Nightman	n	A watchman; security officer.
Nightmare	n	A terrifying dream in which the dreamer experiences feelings of anxiety in extreme, helplessness, sorrow, etc. 2. a condition, thought, or experience suggestive of a nightmare: the nightmare of his years in prison. 3. (formerly) a monster or evil spirit believed to oppress persons during sleep.
Nightmare-like	adj	Resembling or characteristic of a nightmare in some aspect.
Nightmareness	n	The state or condition of a nightmare.
Nightmarey	adj	Resembling a nightmare.
Nightmarish	adj	Extremely alarming, hair-raising. 2. terrifying as a nightmare; resembling a nightmare. 4. apt to give someone a nightmare.
Nightmarishly	adv	In a nightmarish manner.
Nightness	n	Darkness.
Night-off	n	A night free from work or usual duties.
Night-out	n	An evening spent in entertainment or reveling; a spree.
Night-owl	n	An owl which flies at night. 2. one who is up at night.
Night raven	n	A bird of ill omen that cries in the night; esp., the bittern. 2. the night jar, the night raven.
Night-rider	n	In the southern United States, any of a band of masked, mounted men who perform lawless acts of violence at night, generally to punish, intimidate, etc.
Night-ridden	adj	Of a season that has long-periods of darkness.
Nights	adv	During the night, by night, at night.
Night-school	n	School classes conducted in the evening, usually for adult students.
Night-self	n	The struggle between one's night-self and one's day-self: the struggle between the dark or evil/bad side of a person and the light or good side of that person.
Nightshade	n	Any of the numerous shrubs or herbs or vines of the genus "Solanum" - most are poisonous though many bear edible fruit; "Deadly nightshade" or "Belladonna". 2. the shade or darkness of night. 3. a night-walker; a prostitute.
Night shift	n	The work shift during the night, usu. midnight to 8.am. 2. the grave-yard shift.
Night-shirt	n	Sleepwear, esp. a loose shirt used for sleeping in.
Night-shirted	adj	Attired in a nightshirt.
Nightside	n	The 'dark' or bad side of a person. 2. the side of a planet or moon facing away from the sun and therefore in darkness. 3. activities that take place during the night.
Night-side	phr	"In the Night-side" - in the evening.
Night sight	n	The ability to see the reduced illumination (as in moon-light); night vision, scotopic vision, twilight vision.
Night-song	n	The prayer and song at compline: the religious exercise which completes and closes the service of thr day; the last prayer of the day to be said at sunset.
Night-sight	n	Night blindness; a physical defect of the eyes in which one sees well by daylight, but poorly in the dark or dim light; sometimes confused with day blindness or hemeralopia.
Night-speech	n	The sounds of night.
Night-spell	n	A charm against accidents at night. 2. a spell used as a protection against harm at night. 3. a charm used to cause harm at night.
Night-spot	n	A night club.
Night-stand	n	A small beside table, typically having drawers.
Night-stick	n	A long, stout club carried by policeman in the U.S.A., especially at night.
Night-stool	n	A night-chair or portable dry-closet; a commode.
Night-stop	n	A break in a journey during the night. 2. the place a person stops to spend the night.
Night-sun	n	A mock-moon, the paraselene.
Night-swallow	n	A prostitute, sex-worker, night-walker, skanky-ho. NB: a calque of the French: "Hirondelle de nuit".
Night-sweat	n	A profuse perspiration at night during sleep, often symptomatic of serious disease.
Night-swift	adj	As quick as the passing of night.
Night-tide	n	Nighttime.
Night-time	n	The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside; night, dark. 2. the time from dusk to dawn; night-tide.
Night-times	adv	At night, during the night.
Night-walker	n	Prostitute, street-walker, sex-worker. 2. a sleepwalker, noctambulist, somnambulist. 3. one who moves about in the night for evil purposes; a criminal.
Night-walking	n	Walking in one's sleep; somnambulism, noctambulism. 2. walking the streets at night for evil designs.
Nightwards	adj	Approaching or towards the night or nightfall; nightward. 2. coming or taking palce at night.
Nightwards	adv	Towards the region of night; westwards.
Night-watch	n	The time or period of keeping watch at night.
Night-watch	vb	To keep watch at night.
Night-watcher	n	one who keeps watch at night.
Night-watching	n	The occupation of a nightwatchman, whose job it is to keep watch at night.
Nightwatchman	n	A person whose job to keep watch by night.
Nightwear	n	Sleepwear, such as a loose shirt used for sleeping in
Night-wind	n	A wind that blows at night.
Night-work	n	Work carried out at night.
Night-worker	n	One who works at night.
Night-world	n	Life during the night-time; the world by night.
Night-worm	n	A treacherous comrade. 2. a devious, trust-betraying person. 3. a prostitute. 4. a glow-worm.
Nighty	adj	Pertaining to the night; nightly, night-like. 2. women sleeping attire.
Nigh-what	adv	Almost, nearly.
Nill	n	Unwillingness.
Nill	vb	(Ne & Will) - to be unwilling; not to will a thing. 2. to refuse, reject. 3. to negate, prevent from happening. 4. nill he, will he.
Nilling	n	The fact of not willing. 2. rejection, aversion. 3. that which nills or can nill.
Nim	n	A thief.
Nim	vb	OE: niman, nioman: to deal out; distribute, nim out. 2. hold, possess, take, occupy. 3. to take in various senses of the word: steal, filch, thieve, pilfer. 4. "to take nimbly".
Nimble	adj	Light and quick in motion; moving with ease and celerity; lively; swift. 2. agile; quick; active; brisk; lively; prompt.
Nimble-brained	adj	Quick of mind and intellect; nimble-witted.
Nimble-come-quick	adj	Rapid of growth.
Nimble-eyed	adj	Sharp of eye.
Nimble-fingered	adj	Quick and dexterous of the hand and fingers. 2. given to pilfering.
Nimble-footed	adj	Agile, fleet, fleet footed, mercurial, sure-footed, swift-footed, sprightly. 2. quick to change the direction of one's activities when circumstances warrant.
Nimble-footedness	n	Agility, adaptable, fleetness of foot, sprightliness.
Nimble-mouthed	adj	Articulate, quick of repartee. 2. nimble-tongued.
Nimbleness	n	The quality or ability to be agile, quick in motion, move with speed.
Nimble-nosed	adj	Quick to pick up a scent; lit and fig. 2. mentally alert, savvy, aware, sharp, quick-witted.
Nimble-tongued	adj	Articulate, quick of repartee.
Nimble-toothed	adj	Ready to eat or consume food.
Nimble-willed	adj	Quick willed.
Nimble-witted	adj	Quick of mind, intellect and humour.
Nimbly	adv	To act in a manner quickly, swiftly, actively and with ease of motion.
Nimbly	phr	"To Take Nimbly" - steal. 2. quick and skilfully
Nimmer	n	A pilfer, thief, petty crook.
Nimming	n	The action or practice of pilfering, steaking, robbing. 2.
Nim-nosed	adj	Swift to pick up scents.
Nine	n	The cardinal number, eight plus one; thrice three-fold. 2. a symbol for this number, as 9 or IX. 3. a set of this many persons or things. 4. a baseball team. 5. a playing card with nine pips. 6. "The Nine": the Muses.
Nine	adj	Amounting to nine in number.
Nine	phr	A Stitch in Time Saves Nine" - early intervention or maintenance saves time and is less costly in the long run.
Nine	phr	"Look Nine ways" - to squint.
Nine	phr	"Nine-day Wonder" - an exciting event, or person but one which will cease to excite interest when the novelty wears off.
Nine	phr	"Ninepence to a Shilling" - a dimwit: a brick short of a load.
Nine	phr	"Nine Times Out of Ten" - more often than not, usually. 2. almost always.
Nine	phr	"Nine to Five" - normal working hours.
Nine	phr	"Nine Ways (at thrice)" - asquint, askew.
Nine	phr	"On Cloud Nine" - be very happy.
Nine	phr	"Right as Ninepence" - fit, healthly.
Nine	phr	"Up on Nines" - at once.
Nine	phr	"Up To the Nines" - to perfection, to the highest degree or place.
Nine-eyed	adj	An opprobrious epithet.????
Nine-fold	adj	Having nine units or components; nonuple, nine times repeated.
Nine-foldness	n	The state or quality of being nine-fold.
Nine hundred	n	The natural number followng 899 and preceding 901.
Nineish	n	About or around nine.
Nineness	n	The property of being 'nine' in number.
Nine-sided	adj	Having nine sides.
Ninesome	n	By or constituting nine; ninefold, night-times. 2. performed by nine individuals.
Nineteen	adj	Being one more than eighteen. 2. the cardinal number that is the sum of eighteen and one.
Nineteenth	n	One of nineteenth equal parts of a whole.
Nineteenth	adj	The ninth after the tenth
Nineteenth-hole	n	Jocularly in golf, the refreshment bar.
Nineteenthly	adj	Come 19th in number.
Nine-to-five	n	The average working day.
Nine Worthies	n	(The Nine Wonders)the heroes of medieval romance, three Jews: Joshua, David, and Judas Maccabaeus; three pagans, Hector, Alexander, and Julius Caesar; three Christians Knights : Arthur, Charlemagne, and Geoffrey Bouillon.
Nine-eye	n	The river lamprey or lampern, with a dark blue back and silvery sides, used as bait.
Ninefold	adj	Nine times as much or many. 2. consisting of nine parts
Ninefold	adv	Nine times as much or many. 2. consisting of nine parts.
Nineteen	n	ne more than eighteen, nine more than ten.
Nineteen	adj	That amounts to nineteen.
Nineteenth hole	n	The bar at a golf club (as reached after a standard round of eighteen holes).
Nine-to-five	n	Of or involving a standard working day.
Ninety	adj	Being ten more than eighty. 2. the cardinal number that is the product of ten and nine.
Ninth	n	One of ninth equal parts of a whole
Ninth	adj	The first after the eight.
Ninthly	adv	In the ninth place.
Nit	n	Egg of a louse or other insect parasite on man or animals. 2. a gnat or small fly. 3. a contemptible person -- a nitwit.
Nith	n	A place low down.
Nith	adj	Low.
Nithe	n	OE: to condemn: envy, malice, hatred.
Nithe	vb	To envy, or hate a person. 2. to feel envy, anger, hatred. 3. to begrudge, withhold, deny, as in a meat-nithing (deny food to).
Nither	vb	To bring or thrust down.
Nithered	adj	Old English (in an earlier sense) with object to chill or blast with cold. 2. with no object To shiver or tremble with cold. See also nithering.
Nithering	n	The condition or state of feeling envy, hatred, malice; lowness (meanness of spirit).
Nitherness	n	Lowness; low position.
Nithing	n	A vile coward, dastard, despicable wretch, low-life-villain. 2. a coward, dastard,
Nithing	adj	Niggardly, sparing, grudging, hard-fisted.
Nithinghood	n	State or quality of niggardness, miserliness; wretchedness, baseness, lowness (of behavior).
Nittily	adv	Lousily.
Nittings	n	The refuse of gold ore. 2. dregs, tailings, mullock.
Nitty	adj	Full of nits; infested with nits; lousy.
Nitwit	n	A stupid, incompetent person; dimwit, half-wit, lame-brain, dolt, stolt, thickwit, witling, lackwit.
Nitwitted	adj	Stupid, dimwitted, doltish, foolish.
Nitwittedness	n	State or quality of stupidity, foolishness, mental unalertness.