gin knight could
achieve that quest.--Sir T. Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_, iii.
(1470).

=Nadab=, in Dryden's satire of _Absalom and Achitophel_, is meant for Lord
Howard, a profligate, who laid claim to great piety. As Nadab offered
incense with strange fire and was slain, so Lord Howard, it is said,
mixed the consecrated wafer with some roast apples and sugar.--Pt. i.
(1681).

=Nadgett=, a man employed by Montague Tigg (manager of the "Anglo-Bengalee
Company") to make private inquiries. He was a dried-up, shrivelled old
man. Where he lived and how he lived, nobody knew; but he was always to
be seen waiting for some one who never appeared; and he would glide
along apparently taking no notice of any one.--C. Dickens, _Martin
Chuzzlewit_ (1844).

=Nag's Head Consecration=, a scandal perpetuated by Pennant, on the dogma
of "apostolic succession." The "high-church clergy" assert that the
ceremony called holy orders has been transmitted without interruption
from the apostles. Thus, the apostles laid hands on certain persons, who
(say they) became ministers of the gospel; these persons "ordained"
others in the same manner; and the succession has never been broken.
Pennant says, at the Reformation the bishops came to a fix. There was
only one bishop, viz., Anthony Kitchen, of Llandaff, and Bonner would
not allow him to perform the ceremony. In this predicament, the fourteen
candidates for episcopal ordination rummaged up Story, a deposed bishop,
and got him to "lay hands" on Parker, as archbishop of Canterbury. As it
would have been profanation for Story to do this in a cathedral or
church, the ceremony was performed in a tavern called the Nag's Head,
corner of Friday Street, Cheapside. Strype refutes this scandalous tale
in his _Life of Archbishop Parker_, and so does Dr. Hook; but it will
never be stamped out.

=Naggleton= (_Mr._ and _Mrs._), types of a nagging husband and wife. They
are for ever jangling at trifles and willful misunderstandings.--_Punch_
(1864-5).

=Naked Bear= (_The_). _Hush! the naked bear will hear you!_ a threat and
reproof to unruly children in North America. The naked bear, says the
legend, was larger and more ferocious than any of the species. It was
quite naked, save and except one spot on its back, where was a tuft of
white hair.--Heckewelder, _Transactions of the American Phil. Soc._, iv.
260.

Thus the wrinkled old Nokomis
Nursed the little Hiawatha,
Rocked