Chapter Nosey to Noyades of N by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Now-a-days A corruption of In-our-days, I' nour days. (See Apron, Nag, Nickname, Nugget, etc.)

Now-now Old Anthony Now-now. An itinerant fiddler, meant for Anthony Munday, the dramatist who wrote City Pageants. (Chettle: Kindhart's Dream, 1592.)

No wheres (2 syl.). (See Medamothi. )

Noyades (2 syl.). A means of execution adopted by Carrier at Nantes, in the first French Revolution, and called Carrier's Vertical Deportation. Some 150 persons being stowed in the hold of a vessel in the Loine, the vessel was scuttled, and the victims drowned. Nero, at the suggestion of Anicetus, drowned his mother in this same manner. (French, noyer, to drown.)