neighborhood 
livelier than vicinity ; proximity is the closest nearness. 
Neighborhood regards not only place, but persons ; vicinity 
only the place ; hence we say he lived in the vicinity of 
New York or the Hudson, but he lived in the neighborhood 
of Irving ; his house was in close proximity to the one that 
was on fire. See adjacent. 
neighboring, neighbouring (na'bor-ing), a. 
[< neighbor + -ing't.~] Living or situated near; 
adjoining: as, neighboring races; neighboring 
countries. 
Whether the neighbouring water stands or runs, 
Lay twigs across and bridge it o'er with stones. 
Addition, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
Around from all the neighbouring streets 
The wondering neighbours ran. 
Goldsmith, Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog. 
neighborliness, neighbourliness (na'bor-li- 
nes), n. [< neighborly + -ness.] The state or 
quality of being neighborly in feelings or acts. 
neighborly, neighbourly (na'bor-li), a. [< 
neighbor + -ly^T] 1. Becoming a neighbor; 
kind ; considerate : as, a neighborly attention. 
Judge if this be neighbourly dealing. Arbuthnot. 
2. Cultivating familiar intercourse; interchang- 
ing visits; social: as, the people of the place 
are very neighborly. 
It was a neighborly town, with gossip enough to stir the 
social atmosphere. L. tt. Alcott, Hospital Sketches, p. 100. 
= Syn. Obliging, attentive, friendly. 
neighborly, neighbourly (na'bor-li), adv. [< 
neighborly, .] In the manner of a neighbor; 
with social attention and kindliness. 
Some tolerable sentence neighborly borrowed, or featly 
picked out of some fresh pamflet. 
Harvey, Pierce's Supererogation. 
Being neighbourly admitted, ... by the courtesy of 
England, to hold possessions in our province, a country 
better than their own. 
Milton, Articles of Peace with the Irish. 
neighborredt, [ME. ncgeburredde, nehebore- 
den; < neighbor + -red. Cf. neighborhood.'] 
Neighborhood. Old. Eng. Horn., i. 137. 
neighborship! (na'bor-ship), n. [= D. nabuur- 
schap = MLG. nabiirschop, LG. naberschaft, ne- 
berschaft, neberschap = G. nachburschaft, noch- 
perschaft, nachbarschaft = Sw. naboskap = Dan. 
naboskab; as neighbor + -ship.'] The state of 
being neighbors. 
neighbor-stained! (na'bor-stand), a. Stained 
with the blood of neighbors. 
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, 
Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel. 
Shak., E. and J., i. 1. 89. 
neighing (na'ing), .. [Verbal n. of neigh 1 , v.~\ 
The cry of a horse ; a whinnying. 
When the strong neighingg of the wild white Horse 
Set every gilded parapet shuddering. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
neilt, adv. [ME., < (t) OF. nil, < L. nil, nothing: 
see nil 2 .] Never. 
Whos kyngdome ever schalle laste and neil fyne. 
Lydgate, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 2. (Halliwell.) 
Neillia (ne-il'i-a), n. [NL. (D. Don, 1802), 
named after Patrick Neill, secretary of the Cal- 
edonian Horticultural Society.] A genus of 
branching shrubs, of the order Rosacea: and the 
tribe Spiraea, known by the copious albumen 
and by the carpels varying from one to five. 
Fruiting Branch'of Ninebark (Neillia cfulifalia). 
a, a flower; b, fruit; t, a leaf, showing the nervation. 
There are 4 or 5 species, of North America, Manchuria and 
mountains of India and Java. They bear alternate lobed 
leaves and clustered white flowers followed by purplish 
pods. N. (Spircea) opulifolia, called ninebark from the 
numerous layers of its loose bark, is common in the inte- 
rior of the United States, and is sometimes planted. 
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ne injuste vexes (ne in-jus'te vek'sez). [L., 
vex not unjustly: ne, not; injuste, unjustly, < 
injitstus, unjust (see injust); vexes, 2d pers. sing, 
pres. subj. of vexare, vex: see vex.'] In old 
Eng. law, a writ issued in pursuance of the 
provisions of Magna Charta, forbidding a lord 
to vex unjustly a tenant by distraining for a 
greater rent or more services than the latter 
was legally bound for. 
noir, . See neer%. 
neirhand, adv. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of near-hand. 
neist (nest), adv., prep., and a. A dialectal 
form of next. 
neither (ne'sner or ni'THer), a. and pron. [< 
ME. neither, neyther, nethir,a,lso nather, natether, 
noicther, mouther, nother, <. AS. nather, ndthor, 
mother, nduther, nauthasr, nawther, contr. of nd- 
hwaither (= OFries. nahweder, nauder, nouder, 
ner), adj., pron., and conj., neither, < ne, not, 
+ ahwasther, dwther, etc., either: see either. 
The form neither conforms in spelling and pron. 
to either; it would reg. be only nother (no'- 
THer), there being no AS. form of aJ(/Wtw(whenee 
E. either) with the negative. The variation in 
the pronunciation of neither depends on that 
of either. See either."] I. a. Not either. See 
cither. 
Love made them not : with acture they may be, 
Where neither party is nor true nor kind. 
Shak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 186. 
II. pron. Not one or the other. See either, 
pron. 
Ac hor nother, as me may ise in pur righte nas. 
Rob. of Gloucester, 1. 174. 
Which of them shall I take? 
Both? one? or neither? Neither can be enjoyed 
If both remain alive. Shale., Lear, v. 1. 68. 
In this Division of Advices, when they could not do both, 
they did neither. Baker, Chronicles, p. 159. 
Both thy brethren are In Arthur's hall, 
Albeit neither loved with that full love 
I feel for thee. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
Nether zxothert, neither the one nor the other. 
For as for me is lever non ne lother, 
I am withholden yet with neyther nother. 
Chaucer, Good Women, L 192. 
neither (ne'THr or ni'THer), conj. [< ME. 
neither, neyther, etc., nawther, nowther, nouther, 
nother, etc., contr. also nor, which now prevails 
as the second form in the correlation neither 
. . . nor; (. neither, a. and pron., being the 
same as either with the negative prefixed: see 
neither, a. and pron.~] 1. Not either; not in 
either case: a disjunctive conjunction (the 
negative of either), preceding one of a series of 
two or more alternative clauses, and correla- 
tive with nor (or, formerly, neither or ne) before 
the following clause or clauses. 
Neyther with engyne ne with lore. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 665. 
Whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not 
be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world 
to come. Mat. xii. 32. 
And feast your eyes and ears 
Neither with dogs nor bears. 
/>'. Jonson, Masque of Owls. 
Abul Hassan spared neither age, nor rank, nor sex. 
Irving, Granada, p. 61. 
2. Not in any case; in no case; not at all: 
used adverbially for emphasis at the end of the 
last clause, when this already contains a nega- 
tive. This usage is no longer sanctioned by good au- 
thorities, either being now employed. See either, conj., 2. 
If the men be both nought, then prayers be both like. 
For neither hath the one lyst to pray, nor thother neither. 
Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 44. 
I saw Mark Antony offer him a crown ; yet 'twas not a 
crown neither, 'twas one of these coronets. 
Shak., J. C., i. 2. 238. 
I never was thought to want manners, nor modesty 
neither. Fielding. 
S. And not; nor yet. 
The judgments of God are for ever unchangeable ; nei- 
ther is he wearied by the long process of time. 
Raleigh, Hist. World, Pref., p. vU. 
Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it. 
Gen. iii. 3. 
Neither here nor there. See AreL Neither off nor 
on. See on. 
neive 1 (nev), n. A variant of neaf. 
neive 2 t, See neife. 
neiyie-nick-nack (ne'vi-nik'nak), . [A loose 
alliterative formula ; < neire, neaf, fist, + nick- 
nack.~] A game played by or with children in 
Scotland and the north of Ireland. A coin, but- 
ton, nut, or other small object is concealed in the flat. 
Both fists tightly closed are whirled round each other, 
while the rime given below is repeated. The object is for- 
feited to the child who guesses in which fist it is held. 
[Scotch.] 
nemathecium 
Neivie, neivie, nick-nack, 
Which hand will you tak'? 
Tak' the right, tak' the wrang, 
I'll beguile you if I can. Scotch rime. 
nekket, . A Middle English form of neck. 
Nelaton's line, probe. See line?, probe. 
nelavan, n. Same as negro lethargy (which see, 
under lethargy!). 
nellent, SeewiBi. 
Nelumbium (ne-lum'bi-um), n. [NL. (A. L. 
de Jussieu, 1789), < Nelumbo."] 1. Same as Ne- 
lumbo. 2. [(. c.] In deeoratire art, the lotus- 
flower represented conventionally, especially 
when supporting the figure of a divine person- 
age. See lotus. 
Nelumbo (ne-lum'bo), n. [NL. (Hermann, 
1689), < nelii'mbo, its name in Ceylon.] 1. A 
genus of water-lilies, forming the tribe Neluiti- 
bonea; in the order Nymphceacea', known by the 
broadly obconical receptacle. There are two spe- 
cies, plants with creeping rootstocks in shallow water, the 
large bluish-green centrally peltate leaves on thick stalks, 
commonly projecting from the water, the solitary flower 
Water-chinkapin (Ntlumbo luleat. 
a, the fruiting receptacle ; d, a stamen ; c, a fruit. 
very large. N. spectosa, the nelumbo of tropical and sub- 
tropical Asia and Australia, the Pythagorean or sacred bean 
of the ancients, has the flowers deep rose-colored with 
white and blue cultivated varieties. (See lotus, 1, and ar- 
rowroot.) N. lutea, the American nelumbo, water-chin- 
kapin, or wankapin, with leaves of circular outline some- 
times 2 feet in diameter, the flowers 5 to 10 inches broad 
with papery yellowish petals, abounds in the waters of the 
interior and southern United States. See water-chinkapin. 
2. [I. P.] A plant of this genus. 
Nemachilus (nem-a-ki'lus), n. [NL., < Gr. 
vfifta, a thread (< velv, spin: see needle), + ^ri^of, 
a lip.] A genus of cobitid fishes or loaches 
having barbels on the lips and no suborbital 
spine, as the common European N. barbatulus. 
See cut under loach. 
Nemasan, a. See Neniean. 
Nemalieae (nem-a-li'e-e), n. pi. [NL., < Nema- 
lion + -ea;.~] A' suborder of florideous algee, 
typified by the genus Nemalion. 
Nemalion (ne-ma'li-on), n. [NL. (Duby, 1830), 
so called from the cylindrical solid fronds; 
irreg. < Gr. vijpa, a thread.] A small genus of 
marine alga, typical of the suborder Ncmalieai, 
with repeatedly dichotomous gelatinous fronds. 
If. multijidum is the most common and widely diffused 
species ; it has brownish-purple lubricous fronds, from 2 
to 8 inches long. 
nemalite (nem'a-lit), . [< Gr. v^//a, a thread, 
+ Wo$, a stone.] The fibrous variety of bru- 
cite, or native hydrate of magnesium. It occurs 
in slender fibers, which are elastic, sometimes curved, 
and easily separated ; the color is white with a shade of 
yellow, the luster highly silky. 
nemathece (nem'a-thes), n. [< Hi'mathecium.] 
Same as nemathecium. 
nemathecial (nem-a-the'sial), a. [< nemathe- 
cium + -a/.] Of or 'pertaining to the nemathe- 
cium: as, the nemathecial filaments. 
nemathecium (nem-a-the'si-um), n.; pi. nema- 
thecia (-a). [< Gr. vf/fia, a thread, + QTJK.IOV, dim. 
of Oqicr/, a case or receptacle : see theca.] A 
wart-like elevation developed on the surface of 
the thallus of some of the higher algse (FIo- 
ridea;), and ordinarily containing clusters of 
tetraspores mixed with barren hyphse or pa- 
raphyses: but in some forms the antheridia 
and cystocarps are also produced in similar 
protuberances. 
