▪ I. † nemel
? obs. variant of enamel n.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 3671 Sum was smeth smaragdyns & oþire small gemmes, And new nychometis nemellus endentid. |
▪ II. † ˈnemel, v. Obs.
[app. an alteration of nemn v.]
trans. To name.
| c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3533 God hem bad bodes maniȝe on..And nemeld it beseel, And two oðere to maken it wel. 14.. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 23 Þat [non] raton dwelle in þe place þat her namis were nemeled in. 1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 250 How darst thou..Hym nemelyn ageyn in my presence. |
▪ III. nemel, -ly
obs. forms of nimble, -ly.