The Collaborative International Dictionary
Niding \Ni"ding\ (n[imac]"d[i^]ng), n. [Written also nithing.] [AS. n[imac][eth]ing, fr. n[imac][eth] wickedness, malice, hatred.] A coward; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium. [Obs.]
He is worthy to be called a niding.
--Howell.
Wiktionary
n. a coward, dastard, wretch
Usage examples of "nithing".
The work of a nithing, a man beneath honor, a man with no legal rights, worse than an outlaw.
To be proclaimed nithing before the Army was the worst shame a carl—or a jarl— could endure.
To be proclaimed nithing before the Army was the worst shame a carl—or a jarl—could endure.
So I let him go free-save for an eye, to prove I meant what I said-and bade him tell them that unless they sent me my daugh-ter and granddaughter, and for my justice the nithings who defiled her, no man in the Bygd will rest until every last troll of them is slain.
The courtly saga-sayer was about to practise his art before a group of nithings, wolfsheads, men who knew the difference between romance and reality.