subs. (old).—Brandy.
1691–2. SWIFT, Gentlemen’s Journal, Feb., 24, ‘The Story of Actæon Burlesqu’d, or the Original of Horn-Fair.’
| Our jovial Crew there made a halt, | |
| To drink some NANTZ at what-d’ye-call’t. |
c. 1817. KEATS, Spenserian Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown.
| He sipp’d no ‘olden Tom,’ or ‘ruin blue,’ | |
| Or NANTZ, or cherry brandy. |
1821. SCOTT, The Pirate, xxix. What a leer the villain gave me as he started the good NANTZ into the salt water.
1884. W. E. HENLEY and R. L. STEVENSON, Deacon Brodie, I., i. 7. G. S. and Co’s. celebrated NANTZ.
