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▪ I. noll Now dial.|nəʊl|
Forms: α. 1 hnoll, 4–6 nolle, 4–9 noll, 4, 6–7 nol, 6 nole. β. 6 noule, 6–7, 9 nowle, 9 dial. nowl, noul.
[OE. hnoll = MDu. nolle, OHG. hnol (MHG. nol) top, summit, crown of the head.]
1. The top or crown of the head; the head generally; the noddle.
In later use freq. with the epithet drunken.
αc825Vesp. Ps. vii. 17 In hnolle his unrehtwisnis his astiᵹeð. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 452 Se deofol..sloh Iob mid þære wyrstan wunde, fram his hnolle..oð his ilas. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 92 Mowe þou not be helid fro þe sole of þe foot unto þe nolle. c1400Turnament of Tottenham 60 Thay set on ther nollys For to kepe ther pollys, Gode blake bollys. a1529Skelton Col. Cloute 1244 That no man shulde se Nor rede in any scrolles Of theyr dronken nolles. 1559Mirr. Mag. (1563) M iv, The bastard law broode, which can mollyfie All kynd of causes in theyr crafty nolles. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 161 He carrieth off a drie dronken noll to bed with him. 1600Holland Livy xxxiii. xlviii. 851 When..they awoke and roused themselues, with their drunken and drousie nols. 1626Breton Fantasticks Wks. (Grosart) II. 14/2 The nappy Ale makes many a drunken Noll.
β1567Drant Horace, Ep. B ij, All the pothigaries stuffe can scarcely purge his nowle. 1596Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 39 Then came October full of merry glee; For yet his noule was totty of the must. 1653Middleton & Rowley Sp. Gipsy iii. i, Peter-see-me shall wash thy noul And malaga glasses fox thee. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. vii. vi, Priests with their drunken Nowls said Mattens. 1823–in dial. glossaries (Suff., Worc., Som., Cornw.).
†b. transf. A (dull, drunken, etc.) person. Obs.
1399Langl. Rich. Redeles i. 20 Though þis be derklich endited ffor a dull nolle, Miche nede is it not to mwse þer-on. 1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. iii, B iv b, We call him goose, and disarde doulte, and fowlye fatted nowle. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. ii. 9 Drunken nowls are apt..in their drunken pangs to haue their throates cut. 1600Holland Livy ix. xxx. 335 Neither perceived they ought, senselesse druncken nols they.
†2. The nape of the neck; the back of the head.
1382Wyclif Acts xv. 10 What tempten ȝe God, for to putte a ȝok on the nol, or necke, of disciplis? 1398Trevisa Barth. v. xxv. (Bodl. MS.), If þe heed be temperatlich greete, and þe nolle of þe nekke somedele greet. a1400–50Alexander 807 Þe noll of Nicollas þe kyng he fra þe nebb partis. c1550Lloyd Treas. Health H 4 Aplye it to the nape of y⊇ necke beneth the nol. 1598R. Haydocke tr. Lomazzo i. 30 The hinder parte vnder the crowne, some do call..the nape or nolle. 1615Crooke Body of Man 21 The veynes of the forehead, the nowle or backe part of the head. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. iv. (1738) 35 It is..about two inches within the Head before it passes out at the Noll.
†3. transf. The extreme point. Obs. rare—1.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 9 For þis lond lieþ vnder þe norþ nolle [L. vertex] of þe world.
4. Comb., as † noll-bone, the occiput. Obs.
1615Crooke Body of Man 581 The knub of the nowle⁓bone inarticulated or ioyned to the first rack-bone of the necke. 1683Snape Anat. Horse iv. xiii. (1686) 167 The Muscles ascend upward as far as to the Occiput or Noll-bone. c1720Gibson Farrier's Guide (1722) 62 All which [nerves] uniting together are inserted into the Noll-bone.
Hence † nolled a., having a noll (or peak) of a certain kind. Obs. rare.
1388Wyclif Ecclus. xvi. 11 If oon hadde be hard nollid, wondur if he hadde be giltles. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxxviii. (Bodl. MS.), Onocentaurus..is a beste..stronge nekked and nolled as a boole. 1602Marston 2nd Pt. Ant. & Mel. iv. i, A mount of mischief..As weighty as the high-noll'd Apennine.
▪ II. † noll
obs. variant of knoll v.
1620T. Granger Div. Logike 170 Noll, or to noll a bell. |