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▪ I. nis, n.
Also nisse, nys.
[a. Da. and Sw. nisse.]
In Scandinavian folk-lore, a species of brownie or friendly goblin which frequents barns, stables, and other buildings.
1833Keightley Fairy Myth. I. 222 The Nis is the same being that is called Kobold in Germany, Brownie in Scotland. 1855Bailey Mystic. etc. 147 Nisses, Noks, Kobolds, Kelpies, Norns, and Trolls. 1865Whittier Kallundborg Church 28 The Neck and the Nis gave no reply.
▪ II. † nis
is not: see ne and be v. A. 1. 3. Obs.
c825Vesp. Psalter iii. 3 Nis haelu hire in deo hire. c888K. ælfred Boeth. v. §3 Hit nis ᵹiet se tima. c975Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxviii. 6 Nis he her forþon þe he aras. c1000ælfric Gram. (Z) 227 Nis hit swa? Hit nis. c1175Lamb. Hom. 23 Hit nis nan wunder. c1200Ormin 6181 Inn all þatt niss nan sinne. a1225Leg. Kath. 282 Þer nis bot a Godd. a1300K. Horn 13 Fairer nis non þane he was. c1320Sir Tristr. 997 Nis þer non so bald. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. i. 34 Al nis not good to the gost that the bodi lyketh. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xx. 68 He and I oure herte nis but one. 1477Norton Ord. Alch. i. in Ashm. (1652) 13 This Science n'is holy in effect. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. June 19 Those hilles where harbrough nis to see. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1724) II. 714 Nothing can endure where order n'is. [1634W. Cartwright Ordinary iv. ii, I nis not Edmond Ironside, God wot.] |