List of Old English Words in the OED/NU

Old English	sp	English
Nuel	adj	Prone, tending to. 2.facedown, prostate.
Numb	adj	The past participle of obsolete O.E. nim ‘take’ Late Middle English nome(n).- without wholly or partially the power of sensation or motion, benumbed. 2. deadened, dull, insensible.
Numb-hand	n	An inexpert or clumsy person.
Numb-head	n	A dull fool, half-wit, a stult.
Numbing	adj	Causing numbness or insensitivity
Numbness	n	Partial or total lack of sensation in a part of the body; a symptom of nerve damage or dysfunction. 2. the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally, apathy, indifference, numbness, spiritlessness. 3. the condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.
Numbskull	n	a dolt, dunce, a stupid person, a blockhead.
Nun	n	Women devoted to a religious life, and living in a convent under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. 2. a courtesan.
Nun's flesh	n	A cold or ascetic temperament.
Nuncheon	n	A light refreshment taken before meals.(noon & shench): a cup or draught).
Nunhood	n	The status or condition of a nun. 2. nuns as a group or collectively.
Nunnish	adj	Of, pertaining to, resembling a nun; characteristic of a nun.
Nun-like	adj	Resembling a nun or some aspect of.
Nunly	adj	Like a nun, nun-like.
Nunnish	adj	Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun.
Nunnishness	n	State or quality of being nun-like.
Nunship	n	Position or role of a nun.
Nut	n	A fruit consisting of a kernel or seed enclosed in a woody shell, as in the hazelnut, beechnut, or chestnut; also the kernel of such fruit, when edible. 2. one of the seeds in a pine cone; a stone of a peach, or seed of a date. 3. a piece of metal for screwing on to an end. 4. in allusion to the cracking of hard-shelled nut: a question difficult to answer, a problem to hard to solve, a matter or undertaking difficult to accomplish; a person hard to deal with or conciliate. 5. the head. (slang) 6. a crank, crackpot, a madman. 7. the pancreas, in the expression: "the liver, lights, heart, nut and milt." 7. nut: a testicle --- testicles: the nuts (slang). 8. coal in small bits or lump.
Nut	n	OE. nyt: use, worth.
Nut	vb	Seek or gather nuts. 2. to curry favor with; to court (a person). 3. to think, use one's head. 4. butt with the head.
Nut	adj	Crazy, mad, cracked.
Nut	phr	"Crack a Nut with a Sledgehammer" - use to much force/resources to bring about a small change.
Nut	phr	"Do One's Nut" - lose one's temper, get worked up about something; be very angry. 2. be worried or agitated.
Nut	phr	"Hard Nut to Crack" - (someone is a hard nut to crack): is very difficult to persuade a person to do something.
Nut	phr	"He Who Would Eat a Nut Must First Crack the Shell" - the gods give nothing to those without labor.
Nut	phr	"It's Time to Lay our Nuts Aside" - it is time to put aside our follies, to relinquish our boyish pursuits and settle down. An allusion is to an old Roman marriage ceremony in which the bridegroom, as he led his bride home, scattered nuts to the crowd, as if to symbolize that he has given up his boyish ways.
Nut	phr	"Nut Behind the Bolt" - the person using or having the firearm; the shooter.
Nut	phr	"Nut Out" - to find a solution for. 2. to work out the finer details; esp. in a group discussion. 3. to be crazy, esp. in a rage.
Nuts	phr	"Nuts and Bolts - the practical basic elements. 2. fundamental, basic and meaningful detail. 3. the mechanics of a situation or thing. 4. the small items, tasks techniques, procedures etc subordinates, but necessary, to a larger undertaking.
Nuts	phr	"Nuts On" - overfond of, or infatuated with; be nuts about someone. 2. a source of pleasure or delight to. 3. be uts about.
Nut	phr	"Nut Up" - exhortation to rise to the occasion; be a man.
Nut	phr	"Nut Up or Shut Up" - stop talking and gives us action. 2. don't think, do!
Nut	phr	"Off One's Nut" -- out of one's mind, crazy, mad, nutty, loopy; off one's head.
Nut-bearing	adj	Producing nuts, as a tree or bush.
Nut-brown	adj	Of a dark brown color, like that of ripe nuts.
Nut-cracker	n	A device for cracking nuts.
Nutelness	n	(OE: 'No' & 'Witol'): ignorance.
Nutgall	n	A nut-shaped gall, as on an oak tree; an oak apple. 2. a gall found on dyer's oak, used in dyeing.
Nuthen	adv	Now and then; now, nowhile.
Nut-house	n	A lunatic asylum (slang).
Nutless	adj	Without nuts (the fruit). 2. without the use of (mechanical) nuts. 3. withourt testicles, castrated; cowardly. (slang.)
Nutlike	adj	Resembling a nut.
Nutmeal	n	Meal made from the kernel of nuts.
Nutmeat	n	The edible part of a nut.
Nutness	n	(Slang)-the existence of a chaotic atmosphere. 2. the property of a nut.
Nut oak	n	Macadamia ternifolia.
Nutpine	n	One of several nutbearing pines.
Nuts	n	Testicles (sl.)
Nuts	adj	Crazy, demented. 2. madly in love. 3. extremely enthusiastic with about exclamation or scorn; disapproval.
Nuts	phr	"Nuts On" - overfond of, or infatuated with; be nuts about someone. 2. a source of pleasure or delight to. 3. coal in small bits or lumps.
Nuts	phr	"Nuts Over" - a source of pleasure to; devoted to; delighted with someone or something. 2. 'dead nuts on.'
Nutsack	n	Slang for the scrotum.
Nutshell	n	The shell of a nut. 2. a brief, concise statement or form.
Nutshell	vb	To summarize; sum up in a few words.
Nutshell	phr	"In a Nutshell" -- in a brief, concise statement or form; concisely. 2. by way of summary. 3. lie in a nutshell: explained in a few words.
Nutted	adj	Fastened by a nut; abounding or prolific in nuts.
Nutter	n	An eccentric, insane, crazy or reckless person. 2. a person who is obsessed with something.
Nuttle	vb	To use, make use of.
Nuttily	adv	In a nutty manner.
Nuttiness	n	Quality or state in being nutty - in various senses. 2. the quality or degree of having a nutty flavor or texture. 3. the quality or degree of having a nutty aspect; craziness or zaniness. 4. the taste of nuts.
Nuttish	adj	Somewhat nutty.
Nut tree	n	Any tree bearing nuts,esp. the hazel.
Nutty	adj	Abounding in, containing nuts, and having the flavor of or producing nuts. 2. containing nuts; reminiscent of nuts. 3. mad, crazy, not right in the head, out of one mind, off one's nut.
Nutwood	n	Any tree bearing nuts, as walnut, hazel, hickory. 2. the wood of such a tree.
Nutwrench	n	An instrument for screwing or unscrewing nuts.