neuroskeleton 
of ordinary l:inuii:!'." ire m nmski li'tal. Compare tndu- 
ttkflt'ttlll illlll '' I <.*'/: r A Inn. 
neurospastt (nu'ro-spiiHt;, . [< Gr. vevpd- 
<T7remr<, clniwii or iietii:iled by strings, as a 
puppet, < ///"", :i sinew. liber, string, + oira- 
nria', verbal adj. of mrav, draw out or forth: see 
v/iMii.'J A puppet ; a little figure put in motion 
by u string. 
That outward form is hut a neuro*pa*t. 
Dr. H. Mure, Psychathanasia, I. II. S4. 
neurospastict (nu-ro-spas'tik), a. [< neuronpast 
+ -ic.] Of in- pertaining to or resembling u 
neurospast. 
To these, with subtile wires and neurotpattic springs, 
they give, now :uul Ihi'ii, various motions of head, ami 
eyes, which they have made to weep. . 
Evelyn, True Religion, II. 281. 
neuroterous (nu-rot'e-rus), a. Pertaining to 
tlu> genus Neuroterus. 
Neuroterus (nu-rot'e-rus), u. [NL. (Hartig, 
1840).] A genus of hymeuopterous gall-insectH 
of the family Cynijrida?, exhibiting partheno- 
genesis. Forms of one of the alternate generations are 
known as Spatheytuter. A', lenticularis makes oak-galls, 
the insect produced in whieli in turn makes galls of an- 
other kind, which yield SpatheyasUr. The neuroterous 
generation is represented only by females, the spathe- 
gastric by both sexes. 
neurotherapeutics(nu-ro-ther-a-pu'tiks), n. [< 
Or. veitpov, nerve. + E. therapeutics.'} Therapeu- 
tics of nervous disease. 
neurotherapy (nu-ro-ther'a-pi), n. [< Gr. veii- 
pav, nerve, 4- depaireia, medical treatment.] 
Same as neurotherapeutics. 
neurotic (nu-rot'ik), a. and n. [< neurosis 
(-o<-) + -tc.] I. a. 1. Kelating to the nervous 
system or to neuroses : as, a neurotic disease. 
All of us, in certain neurotic crises, hear music or see 
pictures or receive other striking and mysterious impres- 
sions. A'eic J'rinceton Ken., II. 158. 
2. Prone to the development of neuroses. 
The neurotic woman is sensitive, zealous, managing, 
self- forget fill, wearing herself for others ; the hysteric, 
whether languid or impulsive, is purposeless, introspec- 
tive, and selfish. Buck's Handbook of Med. Scicnceg, V. 162. 
3. Capable of acting on the nerves; nervine. 
II. ". 1. A disease having its seat in the 
nerves. 2. A medicine for nervous affec- 
tions; a nervine. 
neurotomical (nu-ro-tom'i-kal), a. [< neurot- 
om-y + -ic-al.} Pertaining to neurotomy. 
neurotomy (nu-rot'6-mi), . [< Gr. veiipov, a 
tendon, sinew, nerve, + -routa, < ri/iveiv, rafte'tv, 
cut.] In surg., the division of a nerve. 
neurotonic (nu-ro-ton'ik), n. [< Gr. veiipov, a 
nerve, + E. tonic.] A medicine employed to 
strengthen the nervous system. 
neurotrophic (nu-ro-trof 'ik), a. [< Gr. veiipov, 
nerve, + rpo<t>>/, nourishment.] Pertaining to 
or dependent on trophic influences coming 
through the nerves. 
neurypnologist (nu-rip-uol'o-jist), n. [< neu- 
ryiniolofi-i/ -r -isf.] Same as neurohyjmologist. 
neurypnology (nu-rip-nol'o-ji), . Same as 
in nri>lii/i>iiology. Braid. 
Neustrian (nus'tri-an), a. [< Neuntria (see def.) 
+ -rt.] Of or pertaining to Neustria, a kingdom 
of the West Franks in the sixth, seventh, and 
eighth centuries, comprising France north of 
the Loire, and Flanders : as generally used, op- 
posed to Austrasin ii . 
To no small extent the tfeuztrian Franks had lost their 
old Germanic vigour. Encyc. Brit., IX. 631. 
neut. An abbreviation of neuter. 
neuter ( nu'ter), a. and n. [< L. neuter, neither ; 
in grammatical use, neuter, tr. Gr. oiierepof 
(iii'iilriiiii i/cnus, tr. Gr. j-tvof ovicrepoy, neuter 
gender); nc, not (see ne), + uter, either, one 
of two.] I. a. 1. Neither the one thing nor the 
other; not adhering to either party; taking no 
part with either side, as in a contention or dis- 
cussion; neutral. 
The ilnkr and all his countrey abode as neuter, and hclde 
with none of both parties. 
Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., I. cclii. 
I cannot mend it, I must needs confess ; . . . 
But since I cannot, be it known to you 
I do remain as neuter. Shalt., Rich. II., ii. 3. 159. 
Mr. Kurchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great 
ardour ; and I stood neuter. Goldtmith, Vicar, xilL 
2. In gram.: (a) Of neither gender; neither 
iniiseulino nor feminine: used when words are 
grammatically or formally distinguished as 
Hiaxriilim; ft minim-, and n, ntcr a distinction 
made in English only in the pronouns he, she, 
it. (6) Neither ;n-ti\e nor passive; intransi- 
tive. Abbreviated . and neut. 3. In hot., 
same as neutral. 4. Tn zoiil., having no fully 
developed sex: as, neuter bees. 
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II. ii. It. A neutral. 
Shall we, that in the buttle sate as neuter*, 
Serve him that 's overcome '.' 
Fletcher (and another), False One, I. 1. 
Damn'd neuten, in tln-ir ini'ldle way of steering, 
Are neither flnh, nor fleah, nor good red herring. 
Dryden, Epilogue to the Duke of Quito, L SO. 
2. An animal of neither sex, and incapable of 
propagation; one of the imperfectly developed 
females of certain social insects, as ants and 
bees, which perform all the labors of the com- 
munity; a worker. See cuts under /<, A tin, 
and Termet. 3. In lot., a plant which has 
neither stamens nor pistils. See cut under 
neutral. 4. In gram., a noun of the neuter 
gender. Abbreviated n. and </. 
neutral (nu'tral), a. and . [= 8p. IV- neutral 
= It. neutrale, < L. neutrali*, neuter, < tiruti-r, 
neither: see neuter.'] I. n. 1. In the condition 
of one who refrains from taking sides in a 
contest or dispute ; taking no active part whh 
either of two contestants or belligerents; not 
engaged on or interfering with either side. 
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, 
Loyal and neutral, in a moment '.' No man. 
Shot., Macbeth, U. S. 115. 
He [Temple] was placed in the territory of a great neu- 
tral power, between the territories of two great powers 
which were at war with England. 
Maenulay, Sir William Temple. 
A nfutral State U one which sustains the relations of 
uniity to both the belligerent parties, or. negatively. Is a 
non hostis, . . . one which sides with neither party in a 
war. Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, { 155. 
2. Belonging to a neutral state: as, neutral 
ships; a neutral flag. 3. Neither one thing 
nor the other; intermediate; indifferent; me- 
diocre. 
Some things good, and some things ill do seem, 
And neutral some, in her fantastic eye. 
Sir J. Dane*, Immortality of the Soul, xx. 
I was resolved to assume a look perfectly neutral : . . . 
a complete virginity of face, unuontaminated with the 
smallest symptom of meaning. 
Ooldtmith, Citizen of the World, xcvl. 
4. In flu HI., exhibiting neither acid nor alka- 
line qualities: as, neutral salts. 5. In bot., 
sexless ; having neither stamens nor pistils, as 
Neutral Flowers of (a) Snow.ball Tree ( t'if>Hrnttm Ofnttts ; (*) C**- 
rtafsii vtrtifillata (a ray-flower) ; (c) Routtloua Texana. 
the ray-flowers of many Covijiosita;, the mar- 
ginal flowers of Hydrangea, and the upper flor- 
ets of many grasses. See cut under Hydrangea. 
6. In elect, and magnetism, not electrified; 
not magnetized. 7. In color, of low chroma; 
without positive quality of color; grayish Neu- 
tral axis, In mech. See orwi. Neutral'blue, equi- 
librium. See the nouns. Neutral line or equator of 
a magnet. See magnet. Neutral salts, in chrm., salts In 
which all the hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by 
acid or Iwslc radicals have been so replaced, as sodium sul- 
phate (N!i..so 4 ), distinguished from hydrogen-sodium sul- 
phate (N"aIISO.|). Neutral salts may, however, react either 
acid, alkaline, or neutral with test-paper. Also called nor- 
inalmUi. -Neutral vowel, the vowel-sound heard In such 
accented syllables as but, son, food, trust, firm, earn, etc., and 
very widely in unaccented syllables : so called because of 
the virtual absence in its utterance of a positive determin- 
ing position of the organs, It being rather the product of 
intonation of their indifferent position in breathing, and 
the form toward which vowels excessively slighted in pro- 
nunciation tend. It is Instanced also by the French 
"nmtc e." (where this is not altogether silenced), by the 
e of many unaccented syllables In German, and so on. 
Neutral zone, in hot., in the Character, the motionless 
hyaline band of protoplasm, entirely destitute of chloro- 
phyl drains, which marks the boundary between two cur- 
rents of oppositely rotating protoplasm in active growing 
cells. Also called indifferent line. 
II. . A person, party, or nation that takes 
no part in a contest between others ; one who 
or that which occupies a neutral or indifferent 
position. 
As a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood, 
And like .1 nfiitntl to his will ami mutter, 
Did nothing. Shak., Hamlet, ii. 2. 303. 
neutralization 
The right of blockade Is one affecting nrutml*. 
new kind of <\rn i-r ..; M,I ii-ht rumM te introduced 
inti> the law of nations without tlp-h oo 
Woalfi-ti, 1 nil i,.l. to Intrr. Ijtw, App. ill., p. 44.1. 
neutralisation, neutralise, eti-. see //;.//, 
~titif>n . etc, 
neutralist (niVtnil-ist), . [< m-utral + -i.-/. I 
Onewho professes nentralitv : :i neutral. [Kare. | 
Intrusting of the militia and navy in the hands of neu- 
tralist*, unfaithful and disaffected persons. 
/ ' I'liniL / Hi.' City of London to the lloute of Common*, 
[1648, p. 6. (Lath 
neutrality (nu-tral'i-tt), n. [= F. neutrality = 
Sp. 111 iitriiliilnil = I'n. in nl i alidade = It. neu- 
li-iilitit = D. neutraliteit = G. neutralitat = 8w. 
Dan. inittralit(t,(. ML. nculralita(t-), a neutral 
condition, < L. ni-iitriiti.*. neutral: see nevtral.} 
1 . The state of being neutral or of being unen- 
gaged in a dispute or contest between others ; 
the taking of no part on either side; in iutrr- 
national law, the attitude and condition of a 
nation or state which does not take part direct- 
ly or indirectly in a war between other states, 
but maintains relations of amity with all the 
contending parties. It Is not a departure from neu- 
trality to furnish to either of the contending parties sup- 
plies which do not fall within the description of contra- 
band of war that is, arms and munitions of war, and 
things out of which munitions of war are made. 
Purchase hut their neutrality, thy sword 
Will, in despite of oracles, reduce 
The rest of Ureece. Glover, Athenald, ix. 
Venice, with her usual crafty policy, kept aloof, main- 
taining a position of neutrality between the belligerents. 
Pretcott, Ferd. and Isa., U. 14. 
2. Indifference in quality ; a state neither very 
good nor very evil. [Rare.] 
There is no health ; physicians say that we 
At best enjoy but a neutrality. 
Donne, Anatomy of the World. 
3f. The state of being of the neuter gender. 
Hence appeareth the truth of those words of our Saviour, 
... I and the Father are one, where the plurality of the 
verb, and the neutrality of the noun, with the distinction 
of their persons, speak a perfect identity of their essence. 
/>;/. Pearion, Expos, of the Creed, ii. S, ( 38. 
4. In /-In in., the state of being neither acid nor 
basic ; absence of the power to saturate or 
combine with either an acid or a base Armed 
neutrality. See armed. Proclamation of neutrali- 
ty, in U. S. hiit., the proclamation by which Washington, 
in 1793, announced the neutrality of the Vnited States in 
the war then begun between Great Britain and France. 
= Syn. 1. neutrality, Indifference. A nation may be very 
far from viewing or regarding with indifference a war be- 
tween two of its neighbors, and yet it may preserve a strict 
neutrality that is.it may refrain strictly from helping 
the one that it wishes to see victorious or hindering the 
one that it wishes to see defeated. 
A state may stipulate to observe perpetual neutrality 
towards some or all of its surrounding neighbors, ou con- 
dition of having its own neutrality respected. 
Wooltey, Introd. to Inter. Law, { 155. 
Met 
With blank indifference, or with blame reproved. 
M. Arnold, Buried Life. 
neutralization (nu'tral-i-za'shon), n. [= F. 
neutralisation; as neutralize + -attow.] 1. The 
act of neutralizing; specifically, in chem., the 
process by which an acid and a base are so com- 
bined that the resulting compound has neither 
acid nor basic properties. Thus, if a solution of so- 
dium hydrate Is carefully added to sulphuric acid, the 
acidity of the mixture grows leas and at length quite dis- 
appears, leaving the mixture with neither acid nor basic 
Sroperties. This is the neutralization point. If more so- 
ium hydrate is added, it imparts a basic or alkaline prop- 
erty to the mixture. Neutralization can then be brought 
about only by addition of an acid. In these cases the 
acid and base are said to neutralize each other. The name 
neutralization is :il-<> given to the decomposition of alka- 
line carbonates by the addition of some stronger acid in 
quantity just sufficient wholly to displace carbonic acid. 
There are some cases in which the neutralization is ef- 
fected by the addition of a substance which, even if added 
In excess, produces a precipitate, and so leaves the solu- 
tion neutral, so that the addition of an excess of the pre- 
cipitant is without much importance. 
Lea, Photography, p. 425. 
2. (a) An act of one or more nations impos- 
ing upon one of their number or upon another 
state a condition of permanent neutrality by 
ordaining that it shall not take part in any war 
into which the others may enter, in considera- 
tion for which its freedom from attack is usu- 
ally guaranteed, as in the case of Switzerland 
in 1815, and Belgium since its separation from 
the Netherlands in 1830. (6) An act of military 
powers agreeing that certain persons, property, 
and places, such as surgeons, chaplains, and the 
wounded, medical supplies, hospitals, and am- 
bulances, shall be deemed neutral in war, and 
not subject to capture, etc., as was agreed by 
the Geneva Convention, 1864. (<) More loosely, 
the act of securing by convention immunity 
