noodle so up (nodlsop)

[ But we are compelled, in order to save circumlocution, to coin a word to expre those facts which spring from Mind, whether, as in moral philosophy, purely metaphysical, or, as in natural philosophy, generated by Mind Matter, by Reason from Experience. Such facts we could beg to call noögenisms (voos, mens, cogitatio, and γένος, nat us, progenies); therein including all mental offsprings or deductions, whether called hypotheses, theories, systems, sciences, axioms, aphorisms, etc. Eden Warwick, quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 274. nook (nuk), n. [Also dial. (Sc.) neuk ; nuk , nok , niuc , a corner, nook.] 1. A corner. [Obsolete or Scotch.] In every hand he took a nook Of that great leathern meal [meal-bag]. Robin Hood and the Beggar (Child's Ballads, V. 201). 2. A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a rece ; a secluded re treat. Safely in harbour Is the king's ship; in the deep nook , where once Thou call'dst me up. Shak ., Tempest, i. 2. 227. This dark sequester'd nook . Milton , Comus, 1. 500. Thou shalt live with me, Retired in some solitary nook, The comfort of my age. Beau . and Fl . , Laws of Candy, ii. 1. For mony a bein nook in mony a braw house has been offered to my hinny Willie. Scott , Red gauntlet, letter x. There is scarcely a nook of our ancient and medieval history which the Germans are not now exploring. Stubbs , Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 62. Nook of land, a lot, piece, or parcel of land; the quarter of a yard-land. Hall i well . [Rare.] nook (nuk), v. i. [