2. A negative vote; one who votes in the negative. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is no nay, there is no denying it. [ Obs. ] haucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

And eke when I say “ye, ” ne say not “nay.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

I tell you nay; but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Luke xiii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

And now do they thrust us out privily? nay, verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out. Acts xvi. 37. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that will not when he may,
When he would he shall have nay. Old Prov. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Before the time of Henry VIII. nay was used to answer simple questions, and no was used when the form of the question involved a negative expression; nay was the simple form, no the emphatic. Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Nay in this sense may be interchanged with yea. “Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Howe'er you lean to the nayward. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]