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Negative (nĕgȧtĭv), n. [Cf. F. négative.] 1. A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception.
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This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. South.
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2. A word used in denial or refusal; as, not, no.
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☞ In Old England two or more negatives were often joined together for the sake of emphasis, whereas now such expressions are considered ungrammatical, being chiefly heard in iliterate speech. A double negative is now sometimes used as nearly or quite equivalent to an affirmative.
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No wine ne drank she, neither white nor red. Chaucer.
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These eyes that never did nor never shall
So much as frown on you. Shak.
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3. The refusal or withholding of assents; veto.
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If a kind without his kingdom be, in a civil sense, nothing, then . . . his negative is as good as nothing. Milton.
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4. That side of a question which denies or refuses, or which is taken by an opposing or denying party; the relation or position of denial or opposition; as, the question was decided in the negative.
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5. (Photog.) A picture upon glass or other material, in which the light portions of the original are represented in some opaque material (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.
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☞ A negative is chiefly used for producing photographs by means of passing light through it and acting upon sensitized paper, thus producing on the paper a positive picture.
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6. (Elect.) The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell.
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Coloq. Negative pregnant (Law), a negation which implies an affirmation.
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Negative (nĕgȧtĭv), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Negatived (nĕgȧtĭvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Negativing.] 1. To prove unreal or untrue; to disprove.
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The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles. Paley.
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2. To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill.
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3. To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
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Negatively, adv. 1. In a negative manner; with or by denial. “He answered negatively.” Boyle.
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2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; -- opposed to positively.
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I shall show what this image of God in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist. South.
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Coloq. Negatively charged or Coloq. Negatively electrified (Elec.), having a charge of the kind of electricity called negative, as does the electron.
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{ Negativeness, Negativity } (?), n. The quality or state of being negative.
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Negatory (?), a. [L. negatorius: cf. F. négatorie.] Expressing denial; belonging to negation; negative. Carlyle.
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Negev prop. n. A desert in Southern Israel.
Syn. -- Negev Desert.
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neginoth (?), n. pl. [Heb. nĕgīnōth.] (Script.) Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith.
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To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
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Neglect (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neglected; p. pr. & vb. n. Neglecting.] [L. neglectus, p. p. of neglegere (negligere) to disregard, neglect, the literal sense prob. being, not to pick up; nec not, nor (fr. ne not + -que, a particle akin to Goth. -h, -uh, and prob. to E. who; cf. Goth. nih nor) + L. legere to pick up, gather. See , adv., , .] 1. Not to attend to with due care or attention; to forbear one's duty in regard to; to allow to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts.
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I hope
My absence doth neglect no great designs. Shak.
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This, my long suffering and my day of grace,
Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. Milton.
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2. To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight; as, to neglect strangers.
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Syn. -- To slight; overlook; disregard; disesteem; contemn. See .
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Neglect, n. [L. neglectus. See , v.] 1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy.
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To tell thee sadly, shepherd, without blame,
Or our neglect, we lost her as we came. Milton.
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2. Omission of attention or civilities; slight; as, neglect of strangers.
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3. Habitual carelessness; negligence.
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Age breeds neglect in all. Denham.
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4. The state of being disregarded, slighted, or neglected.
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Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect. Prior.
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Syn. -- Negligence; inattention; disregard; disesteem; remissness; indifference. See .
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Coloq. benign neglect A deliberate policy of minimizing public discussion of a controversial issue [e.g. by the president] on the theory that excessive discussion in itself is harmful or counterproductive.
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Neglectedness, n. The state of being neglected.
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Neglecter (?), n. One who neglects. South.
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Neglectful (?), a. Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope.
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A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke.
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Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot.
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-- Neglectfully, adv. -- Neglectfulness, n.
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Neglectingly, adv. Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.
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Neglection (?), n. [L. neglectio.] The state of being negligent; negligence. [Obs.] Shak.
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Neglective (?), a. Neglectful. [R.] “Neglective of their own children.” Fuller.
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neglige, negligee (nĕglĭzhā; F. n�gl�zh�), n. [Also spelled negligé and negligée.][F. négligé, fr. négliger to neglect, L. negligere. See .] 1. An easy, unceremonious attire; undress.
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2. A kind of loose, flowing dressing gown worn by women, usually made of sheer fabric.
Syn. -- negligee, peignoir.
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Negligence (?), n. [F. négligence, L. negligentia.] The quality or state of being negligent; lack of due diligence or care; omission of duty; habitual neglect; heedlessness.
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2. An act or instance of negligence or carelessness.
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remarking his beauties, . . . I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair.
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3. (Law) The omission of the care usual under the circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly.
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Coloq. Contributory negligence . See under .
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Syn. -- Neglect; inattention; heedlessness; disregard; slight. -- , . These two words are freely interchanged in our older writers; but a distinction has gradually sprung up between them. As now generally used, negligence is the habit, and neglect the act, of leaving things undone or unattended to. We are negligent as a general trait of character; we are guilty of neglect in particular cases, or in reference to individuals who had a right to our attentions.
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Negligent (?), a. [F. négligent, L. negligens,p. pr. of negligere. See .] Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized by negligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. “Be thou negligent of fame.” Swift.
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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.
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Syn. -- Careles; heedless; neglectful; regardless; thoughtless; indifferent; inattentive; remiss.
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Negligently (?), adv. In a negligent manner.
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Negligible (?), a. [Cf. F. négligible, négligeable.] That may be neglected, disregarded, or left out of consideration; too small or unimportant to be worthy of notice.
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Within very negligible limits of error. Sir J. Herschel.
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Negoce (?), n. [F. négoce. See .] Business; occupation. [Obs.] Bentley.
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Negotiability (? or ?), n. [Cf. F. négociabilité.] The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.
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Negotiable (? or ?), a. [Cf. F. négotiable. See .] Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assignment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
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Coloq. Negotiable paper , any commercial paper transferable by sale or delivery and indorsement, as bills of exchange, drafts, checks, and promissory notes.
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Negotiant (?), n. [L. negotians, prop. p. pr. of negotiari: cf. F. négociant.] A negotiator. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.
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Negotiate (?), v. i. [L. negotiatus, p. p. of negotiari, fr. negotium business; nec not + otium leisure. Cf. .] 1. To transact business; to carry on trade. [Obs.] Hammond.
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2. To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
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3. To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, convention, or other proposed agreement; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
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He that negotiates between God and man
Is God's ambassador. Cowper.
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4. To intrigue; to scheme. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Negotiate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Negotiated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Negotiating (?).] 1. To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
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Constantinople had negotiated in the isles of the Archipelago . . . the most indispensable supplies. Gibbon.
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2. To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.
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The notes were not negotiated to them in the usual course of business or trade. Kent.
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Negotiation (?), n. [L. negotiatio: cf. F. négociation.] 1. The act or process of negotiating; a treating with another respecting sale or purchase. etc.
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2. Hence, mercantile business; trading. [Obs.]
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Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.
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3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
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An important negotiation with foreign powers. Macaulay.
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Negotiator (?), n. [L.: cf. F. négociateur.] One who negotiates; a person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect to purchase and sale, or public or private compacts.
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Negotiatory (? or ?), a. Of or pertaining to negotiation.
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Negotiatrix (?), n. [L.] A woman who negotiates. Miss Edgeworth.
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Negotiosity (?), n. [L. negotiositas.] The state of being busy; multitude of business. [Obs.]
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Negotious (?), a. [L. negotiosus.] Very busy; attentive to business; active. [R.] D. Rogers.
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Negotiousness, n. The state of being busily occupied; activity. [R.] D. Rogers.
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Negress (?), n.; pl. Negresses (�). [Cf. F. négrese, fem. of négre a negro. See .] A black woman; a female negro.
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Negrita (?), n. [Sp., blackish, fem. of negrito, dim. of negro black.] (Zoöl.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.
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Negritic (n�grĭtĭk), a. Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes. Keary.
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Negritos (?), n. pl.; sing Negrito (�). [Sp., dim. of negro black.] (Ethnol.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.
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Negro (nēgr�), n.; pl. Negroes (nēgrōz). [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.] A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
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2. A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American. [U.S. usage, sometimes considered offensive.]
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Negro, a. Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
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Coloq. Negro bug (Zoöl.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor. -- Coloq. negro corn , the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. See . McElrath. -- Coloq. Negro fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. -- Coloq. Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Coloq. Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.
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Negrohead (?), n. An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.
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Negroid (?), a. [Negro + -oid.] 1. Characteristic of the negro.
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2. Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
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Negroid (?), n. [Negro + -oid.] A member of any one of several East African tribes whose physical characters show an admixture with other races.
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Negroloid (?), a. See .
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Negus (?), n. A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
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Nehiloth (?), n. pl. [Heb.] (Script.) A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).
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Nehushtan (?), n. [Heb.] A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. 2 Kings xviii. 4.
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{ Neif, Neife } (nēf), n. [OF. neïf, naïf, a born serf, fr. L. nativus born, imparted by birth. See .] A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.
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{ Neif, Neaf (nēf), } n. [Icel. hnefi; akin to Dan. næve, Sw. näfve.] The fist. [Obs.] “I kiss thy neif.” “Give me your neaf.” Shak.
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Neigh (nā), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Neighed (nād); p. pr. & vb. n. Neighing.] [OE. neien, AS. hnǣgan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. nēgen, Icel. hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gnägga. Cf. a horse.] 1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny.
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2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [Obs.]
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Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl.
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Neigh, n. The cry of a horse; a whinny.
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Neighbor (nābẽr), n. [OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See , and .] [Spelt also neighbour.] 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer.
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Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.
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2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
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Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak.
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3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
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Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36.
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The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor. South.
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Neighbor, a. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. “The neighbor cities.” Jer. l. 40. “The neighbor room.” Shak.
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neighbor, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Neighbored (?); p. pr. & vb. n Neighboring.] 1. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.
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Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys.
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2. To associate intimately with. [Obs.] Shak.
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Neighbor, v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [Obs.]
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A copse that neighbors by. Shak.
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Neighborhood (?), n. [Written also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
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Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.
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2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
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3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
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4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- , . Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.
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Neighboring, a. Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.
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Neighborliness (?), n. The quality or state of being neighborly.
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Neighborly, a. [Also written neighbourly.] Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner.
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Judge if this be neighborly dealing. Arbuthnot.
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Neighborship, n. The state of being neighbors. [R.] J. Bailie.
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neighbour, neighbouring, neighbourhood, neighbourly Same as , , , . [Chiefly Brit.]
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Neishout (?), n. [From D. niezen to sneeze + hout wood.] (Bot.) The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.
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Neither (nē�ẽr or nī�ẽr; 277), a. [OE. neither, nother, nouther, AS. nāwðer, nāhwæðer; nā never, not + hwæðer whether. The word has followed the form of either. See , and , and cf. , .] Not either; not the one or the other.
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Which of them shall I take?
Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,
If both remain alive. Shak.
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He neither loves,
Nor either cares for him. Shak.
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Neither, conj. Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more coördinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.
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Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king. 1 Kings xxii. 31.
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Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,
Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me. Milton.
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When she put it on, she made me vow
That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it. Shak.
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☞ Neither was formerly often used where we now use nor. “For neither circumcision, neither uncircumcision is anything at all.” Tyndale. “Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it.” Gen. iii. 3. Neither is sometimes used colloquially at the end of a clause to enforce a foregoing negative (nor, not, no). “He is very tall, but not too tall neither.” Addison. ” ‘I care not for his thrust' ‘No, nor I neither.'” Shak.
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Coloq. Not so neither , by no means. [Obs.] Shak.
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nekton n. The aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales.
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Nelumbo (?), prop. n. [Ceylonese word.] (Bot.) A genus of great water lilies. The North American species is Nelumbo lutea, the Asiatic is the sacred lotus, Nelumbo speciosa. [Written also Nelumbium.]
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