negrooid 
negtooid (uo'gro-oid), . Same as 
negro' S-head ( neV'o/.-hed), . The ivory-palm, 
I'liytrli-pltdn iiiiii-riiftti i>u : so cidled from the ap- 
pearance of its fruit. See irorti-mil. 
Negundo ( "< ^nn'do), . [NL. (Moeuch, 1794); 
from a unlive name.] 1. A genus of dicoty- 
ledonous trees of the order Aceracea; (.SV//HH- 
Branch with Fruits of Box-elder (fliefytndo aceroides). a, a male 
flower ; t, a leaflet, showing the nervation. 
dacew), distinguished from the maples by its 
pinnate leaves. There are 3 or 4 species, of North 
America and Japan. They are direcions trees, bearing 
drooping racemes of key-fruits preceded by small long- 
pediceled pendulous flowers with minute greenish calyx 
and no petals, appearing before the leaves. Common 
names of the species are box-elder and ash-leafed maple. 
y. aeeroidet is well diffused in America east of the Rocky 
Mountains, and often planted for shade and ornament. 
N. Caltfornicuin is a similar tree of the western coast. 
2. . [/. c.] A tree of this genus. 
negus 1 (ne'gus), . [So called from its inven- 
tor, Col. Negus."] A mild warm punch of wine 
(properly port), made with a little lemon and 
not much sugar. 
The mixture now called negus was invented in Queen 
Anne's time [1702-14] by Colonel Xegus. 
Malone, Life of Dryden (prefixed to Prose Works), p. 484. 
ffegus, a weak compound of sherry and warm water, used 
to be exhibited at dancing parties, but is now, I should 
think, unknown save by name. 
W. Besant, Fifty Years Ago, p. 171. 
The little Doctor, standing at the sideboard, was brewing 
a large beaker of port-wine negus. 
W. Black, In Far Lochaber, II. 
Negus' 2 (ne'gus), . [Abyssinian.] The title 
of the kings of Abyssinia. 
Nor could his eye not ken 
The empire of A'egus to his utmost port. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 397. 
nehar (ne-har'), n. [E. Ind.] A fish of the 
family Synodontidte, Harpodon nehereus, the ob- 
ject of an extensive fishery along parts of the In- 
dian and Chinese coasts. It has a claviform body, 
a deeply cleft mouth, and cardifonn teeth, besides long 
barbed teeth in the lower jaw. Also called Bombay duck 
and buminalo. 
Nehushtan (ne-hush'tan), n. [Heb. nechush- 
taii, lit. 'a piece of brass' (copper), < nechosetli, 
lit. 'brass' (copper).] See the quotation. 
He [Hezekiah] . . . brake in pieces the brasen serpent 
that Moses had made ; for unto those days the children of 
Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it XehuMan. 
2 Hi xviil. 4. 
neit, "<lr. An obsolete variant of nay. 
neiet, '' > An obsolete spelling of neigh 1 . 
neif, . See neaf. 
neifet, neiye'-'t (nef, nev), . [<OF. neif, naif, 
in gerf neif, < L. sercus naticus (fern, serva nati- 
va), a born slave or serf : see naif, native."] A 
woman born in villeinage. 
The children of villeins were also in the same state of 
bondage with their parents ; whence they were called in 
Latin nativi. which gave rise to the female appellation 
of a villein, who was called a netfe. 
Blackstone, Com., II. vi. 
neiftyt (iief'ti), n. [OF. "neifetc, nairete, nativ- 
ity: see iinlii-ili/. iKiirt't/'. neife.] The servitude, 
bondage, or villeinage of women. 
There was an ancient writ called writ of ite(fty, whereby 
the lord claimed such a woman as his neif, now out of use. 
Jacob, Law Diet. 
neigh 1 (na), r. i. [Early mod. E. also HCIJ, m-ii; 
dial, also nii\ HI/I. nn: < MK. iic/i/li/'ii. mi/iii. ni- 
gen, < AS. Iniifgau = Ml), in-i/i n = MlAi. licigen = 
Mllti. nti/i'ii = Ii-fl. I/HCI///K, hiicgyja, yneyyja = 
3961 
8w. gniigga = Dan. giuegge, neigh: supposed to 
be imitative; it may be so, remotely, like the 
equiv. hinny'l, whinny.] 1. To utter the cry of 
ahorse; whinny. 
When they (the Indians] heard the Hones nev, they had 
thought the horses could speake. 
Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 7*4. 
There the Laird garr'd leave our steed*, 
For fear that they should (tamp and nie. 
Kininont Willie (Child's Ballads, VI. 63). 
Meanwhile the restless horses neighed aloud, 
Breathing out fire, and pawing where they stood. 
Addiion, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., II. 
2f. To scoff ; sneer. 
Yes, yes, 'tin he, I will assure you, uncle; 
The very he ; the he your wisdom play'd withal 
(I thank you for 't) ; neiijh'd at his nakedness, 
And made his cold and poverty your pastime. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, IT. 1. 
neigh 1 (na), . [< neighl, r.] The cry of a 
horse ; a whinnying. 
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neight 
Piercing the night's dull ear. 
5Ao*., Hen. V., tv., Prol.. 1. 10. 
The clash of steel, the neiyh* of barbed steeds. 
Ford, Lady's Trial, ii. 1. 
neigh'^t, a. and adv. An obsolete form of nigh. 
neighbor, neighbour (na'bor), . and n. [< ME. 
neighbour, neiyhebotir,eighebor, nef/hebor,neghf- 
bur, neihebur, neyhhbour, neighburgh, etc., < AS. 
nedhgebur, nehgebur, nehhebur, nehebur, nedhbur 
(= OS. ndbur = D. nabuur = MLG. nabur, na- 
buwer, LG. nabur, naber, nabbcr = OHG. ndhgi- 
bur, ndhgibure, MHG. ndchgebur, ndchgebure, 
G. nachbur, naehbaur, now nachbar; cf. Icel. 
initial = Sw. Dan. nabo), a neighbor, lit. 'a nigh- 
dweller,' one who dwells near another. < ncdh, 
nigh, + gebur, a dweller (< ge-, a collective pre- 
fix, + buan, dwell): see neigh?, nigh, and bower 6 .] 
1. n. 1. One who lives near another; one who 
forms part of a circumscribed community; a 
person in relation to those who dwell near him, 
in the houses adjacent, or, by extension, in the 
same village or town. 
And on a daye he hadde another Iewe f one of his neyrh- 
luiun, to dyner. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 166. 
Therfore men seyn an olde sawe, who hath a goode neigh- 
bour hath goode morowe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), 111. 434. 
When a Neapolitan cavalier has nothing else to do, he 
. . . falls a tumbling over his papers to see if he can start 
a law-suit, and plague any of his neighbours. 
Additon, Remarks on Italy (ed. Bohn), I. 428. 
2. One who stands or sits near another ; one in 
close proximity. 
Here one man's hand lean'd on another's head, 
Bis nose being shadow'd by his neighbour's ear. 
Shale., Lucrece, 1. 1416. 
See in her cell sad Eloiaa spread. 
Propped on some tomb, a neighbour of the dead. 
Pope, Eloisa to Abelard, L 304. 
3. A person in relation to his fellow-men, re- 
garded as having social and moral duties to- 
ward them. 
He that did the office of a neighbour, he was neighbour. 
Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI., 1550. 
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, . . . 
and thy neighbour as thyself. Luke x. 27. 
The gospel . . . makes every man my nei;ihltvttr. 
Bp. Spratt, Sermons. 
That father held it for a rule 
It was a sin to call our neighbour fool. 
I'ope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 383. 
4. One who lives on friendly terms with an- 
other: often used as a familiar term of address : 
as, neighbor Jones. 
Well said, I' faith, neighbour Verges. 
Shale., Much Ado, III. 6. 39. 
At length the busy time begins. 
"Come, neighbour*, we must wag." 
Courper, Yearly Distress. 
5t. An intimate ; a confidant. 
The deep revolving witty Buckingham 
No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel 
Shale.. Rich. III., iv. 2. 43. 
Good neighbors. See good follc, under good. 
H.t a. Neighboring; adjacent; situated or 
dwelling near or in neighborhood : as, the neigh- 
bor village ; neighbor farmers. 
In our neighbour Countrey Ireland, where truelie learn- 
ing goeth very bare, yet are theyr Poets held in a deuoute 
reuerence. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
I lougd the neighbour towne to see. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., January. 
And thither Phylax flies, 
Perching unseen upon a neighbour bouxh. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, Ii. 36. 
neighbor, neighbour (na'bor), c. [< neighbor, 
.] I. trans. 1. To border on or be near to. 
Like some weak lords neighboured by mighty kings. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. M7). 
neighborhood 
Mean while the Danes of Lelaterand Northamptonshire, 
not llkelng perhaps to be neighbuiird with strung Towns, 
laid Selge to Torchetr. Milton, Hist. Eng., v. 
These [trees] grow at the South end of the Island, and 
on the leisurely ascending bus that neighbour the shore. 
Sniulyi, Travalles, p. 10. 
2f. To make near or familiar. 
And ilth so neighbour d to his youth and hariour. 
*., Hamlet, II. >. 12. 
II. intrant. To inhabit or occupy the same 
vicinity as neighbors; dwell near one another 
as members of the same community ; be in tin 
neighborhood; be neighborly or friendly. 
As a king's daughter, being In person sought 
Of divert princes, who do neighbour near. 
tiirJ. Dariet, 1 m mortal, of Soul, xxx. 
Copies thereof exhibited to the churches of the Juris- 
diction of Plimouth, such of them as are neighbouring near 
unto them. .V. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 322. 
neighbqrer, neighbourer (ua'bor-er), n. One 
who neighbors, or stands in close proximity to 
another ; a neighbor. 
A arii/hbuiirerut this Nymph's, as high In fortune's grace. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, I. 265. 
neighboresst, neighbouresst (na'bor-es), n. [< 
neighbor + -ess.'] A female neighbor. [Rare.] 
That ye maye lernc your doughters to mourne, and that 
euery one may teache her neyghbourene to make lament*- 
cion. Bible o/ 1551, Jer. ii. 20. 
neighborhood, neighbourhood (na'bor-hud), . 
[< neighbor + -hood. Cf. neighborred.} 1. The 
condition or quality of being neighbors ; the 
state of dwelling or being situated nigh or near ; 
proximity; nearness : as, neighborhood often pro- 
motes friendship. 
The Moon (who by prlviledge of her neighbourhood pre- 
dominate! more over us than any other ctelestlal body). 
Uowell, Pref. to C'otgrave's French Diet. 
This day I hear that my pretty grocer's wife, Mrs. Bever- 
ham, over the way there, her husband Is lately dead of the 
plague at Bow, which I am sorry for, for fear of losing her 
neighbourhood. Pepyt, Diary, II. 323. 
The German built his solitary hut where Inclination 
prompted. Close neighborhood was not to his taste. 
Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 9. 
2. Conduct as a neighbor. 
The Duke of Sogorbe and the Monkes of the vale of Para- 
dise did beare eache other ill wil, and did vse cuill neii/h- 
borhoode. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1 .".77), p. 126, 
3. The kindliness and mutual readiness to be 
friendly which arise out of the condition of be- 
ing neighbors ; the reciprocity and mutual help- 
fulness becoming to neighbors; neighborly feel- 
ings and acts. 
We . . . shall conserue the olde libertie of trafflcke. and 
all other things which shall seeme to apperteine to neigh- 
bourhood betweene vs and your Maiesty. 
Hakluyt'i Voyaaa, I. 338. 
Let all the intervals or void spaces of time be employed 
in ... works of nature, recreation, charity, friendliness, 
and neighbourhood. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, 1. 1. 
I pray therefore forget me not, and believe for me also, 
if there be such a piece of neighborhood among Christians. 
If. Ward, Simple Cooler, p. 93. 
4. The place or locality lying next or nigh to 
some specified place; ad joining district; vicin- 
ity : as, he lived in my neighborhood : frequent- 
ly used figuratively. 
The cause of his disgrace was his cutting off so many 
Greek villages hi the neighbourhood of that city, by which 
the hinds were left uncultivated. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. 1. 242. 
I could not bear 
To leave thee In the neighbourhood of death. 
Additon, Cato, Iv. 1. 
Life slips from underneath us, like that arch 
Of airy workmanship whereon we stood, 
Earth stretched below, heaven in our neighborhood. 
Wordsworth, Desultory Stanzas. 
5. Those living in the vicinity or adjoining 
locality; neighbors collectively: as, the fire 
alarmed the whole neighborhood. 
These are the men formed for society, and those little 
communities which we express by the word neighbourhood*. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 49. 
Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood 
came out to meet their minister. Ooldnnith, Vicar, iv. 
6. A district or locality, especially when con- 
sidered with reference to its inhabitants or their 
interests: as, a fashionable neighborhood; a ma- 
larious neighborhood. 
There Is not a low neighbourhootl in any part of the city 
which contains not two or three [coal-shed men] hi every 
street. Mayhev, London Labour and London Poor, II. 94. 
In the neighborhood Of, nearly ; about. [Newspaper 
use, U. S>. | 
The Catholic clergy of this city have purchased in the 
neighborhood of forty acres of land ... for a cemetery. 
Baltimore Sun, June 27, 1857. (Bartlett.) 
= 8yn. 1 and 4. Sei ; ihborhood, Vitinity, Proximity. The 
first two differ from proximity in being used concretely : 
as, the explosion was heard throughout the neighborhood 
or ricinilii (hut not proximity). Xeighborhond iscloser and 
