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neck is very Ihort; but then it has a peculiar provifion by 
a probofcis or trunk. Chambers. 
He’ll beat Aufidius’ head below his knee, 
And tread upon his neck. Shakefpeare's Coriol. 
A long narrow part.—The accefs of the town was only 
by a neck of land, between the fea on the one part, and 
the harbour-water on the other. Bacon. 
Thou walk’ll as on a narrow mountain’s neck, 
A dreadful height, with fcanty room to tread. Dryden. 
Outlie Neck. Immediately after; from one following 
another clofely.—The fecond way to aggregate lin, is by 
addition of lin to lin, and that is done fundry ways ; 
firlt by committing one fin on the neck of another ; as 
David finned, when he added murther to adultery. 
Perkins. 
He depos’d the king, 
And, on the neck of that, talk’d the whole Hate. Sliakefp. 
To break the Neck of an affair. To hinder any thing 
being done; or, to do more than half. 
NECK-BEET, /’. Thecoarfe flelhof the neck of cattle, 
fold to the poor at a cheap rate.—They’ll fell (as cheap as 
neck-beef) for counters. Swift. 
NECK'-CLOTH,/ That which men wear on their 
necks.—It would be an endlefs talk to attempt to adopt 
the drefs to the various temperatures of the weather in this 
uncertain climate; but there is one thing worn by the mo¬ 
derns in Europe, the abolition of which would be parti¬ 
cularly acceptable in this warm weather, that is, the neck¬ 
cloth. Indeed we wonder who could ever have thought of 
fuch a ridiculous incumbrance. It is not only dilagree- 
able, but we fhould think injurious, in hot weather, per- 
feftly ufelefs in cold, for the throat is quite as capable of 
expofure to the air as the face ; and moreover ugly and 
expenliveat all times. Examiner, Aug. 9,1818. 
Will file with hufvvife’s hand provide thy meat. 
And ev’ry Sunday morn thy neck-cloth plait ? Gay. 
NECK'-LAND, f. A long narrow part of land ; a neck 
of land.—Promontories and necli-lands, which butt into 
the fea, what are they but folid creeks f Haliewill. 
NECK'-VERSE. The Latin fentence, Miferere mei 
Dens, Pf. li. 1. was thus called, becaufe the reading of it 
was made a ted, by which to dillinguifh thofe who, in 
prefumption of law, were qualified in point of learning, 
and admilfible to benefit of clergy: but this ground of 
diftinftion was fet afide by 5 Ann. cap. 6.—They have a 
fanftuary for thee, to five thee, yea and a necke-verfe, if 
thou canll rede but a lytie latenly, thoughe it be never fo 
foryly. Tyndall's Obed. of a Chrijlen Blau. 
If a monk had been taken for dealing of bacon, 
For burglary, murder, or rape; 
If he could but rehearfe (well prompt), his ncck-verfe, 
He never could fail to efcape. Brit. Apollo, 1710. 
NECK'-WEED, f. Hemp: in ridicule. 
NECK'AR, a river of Germany, which rifes in the 
Black Fored ; pafles by or near to Roth weil, Sultz, Horb, 
Rothenburg, Ehingen, Tubingen, Nurtingen, Wendlin- 
gen, Efslingen, Condadt, Ludwiglburg, Marpach, Heil- 
bron, Wimper am Berg, Neckar Gemund, Heidelberg, 
&c. and joins the Rhine at Manheim. 
NECK'AR GEMUN'D, a town of the grand duchy of 
Baden, five miles ead of Heidelberg, and forty-two north 
of Stuttgart. Lat. 49. 22. N. Ion. 9. 18. E, 
NECKAR’s UL'M, a town of Germany, on the eaft 
fide of the Neckar, three miles north of Heilbron, and 
twenty-three fouth-ead of Heidelberg. Lat. 49. 12. N, 
Ion: 9. 18. E. 
NECKATEE', or Neck'erchief, / A gorget; hand¬ 
kerchief for a woman’s neck. 
NECK'ED, adj. Ufed in compofition, figuratively and 
literally; having a neck.—Stift-nec/i’d pride nor art nor 
force can bend. Denham. 
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The horfe, 
Dauntlel's at empty noifes, lofty neck'd. Dryifen. 
NECK'ER (Noel Jofeph), an eminent botanid, was 
born in Flanders in 1729. At a very early period he 
devoted himfelf to the dudy of botany; and, to enlarge 
his knowledge in that fcience, he undertook feveral tours 
through Germany, France, and other countries. He af¬ 
terwards became botanid to the Eleftor Palatine, and 
hidoriographer of the palatinate, and of the duchies of 
Berg and Juliers. He died at Manheim, in the month of 
December 1793. He had obtained the degree of M. D. 
from the univerfity of Douay, and was an honorary mem¬ 
ber of the college of medicine at Nanci. He was a mem¬ 
ber alfo of the academies of Bavaria and Manheim, as weil 
as of other learned bodies. Necker was the author of 
feveral botanical works, among which were the follow¬ 
ing : 1. Delicias Gallo-Belgicae Sylvedres, feu tra< 5 latus ge- 
neralis plantarum Gallo-Belgicarum ad genera relatarum r 
See. fecundum principia Linnseana; Argent. 1768., 2 vois. 
i2mo. 2. Methodus Mufcorum; Manheim, 1771, 8vo. 
Necker had applied particularly to the lludy of modes, of 
which he forms only one clafs ; this he divides into three 
orders, the charadlers of which are taken from the effects 
of germination. All the modes, according to his fydem, 
ought to be confidered as perennial, but their germina¬ 
tion is not always the fame : in forne it is foliaceous, in 
others plumous, and in fome it is by fimple buds. 3. Piiy- 
fiologia Mufcorum; ibid. 1774. 8vo. cum fig. This work 
has been tranfiated into French, under the title of 
“ Phyfiologie des Corps organifes,” &c. Bouillon, 1775, 
8vo. 4. Traite furla Mycitologie, ou Difcours hidorique 
fur les Champignons en general; Manheim, 1788, 8vo. 
avec fig. 5, Elementa Botanica ; Neovedse, 1791, 3 vols. 
8vo. Necker was the author alfo of feveral dilfertations, 
publidied in the Tranfaftions of the Theodoro-Paiatine 
Academy. Nekrolug fur Freunde Deutfcker Litcratur vou 
G. S. Rutger. 
NECK'ER (James), a datefman and financier, didin- 
guifhed by the part he afled in the French revolution, 
was born in 1732 at Geneva, where his father was profel- 
for of civil law in the college. . He received the liberal 
education ufually bedowed upon youth in that city, 
though his dedination was a commercial life. In his fif¬ 
teenth year he went to Paris, where he was employed as a 
clerk, fird in the banking-houfe of Vernet, and then in 
that of Theludon. Such was the ability and adiduity 
which he difplayed in this Ration, that he role to the pod 
of fird calhier, and finally a partner, in the houfe. His 
fpeculations, and efpecially his concerns with the French 
Ead-India company, turned out highly advantageous, and 
he rapidly accumulated a fortune. About the year 1765 
he married Madlle. Curchod, the daughter of a parilh- 
minider in the Pais de Valid, a lady of extraordinary me¬ 
rit and accomplilhments, who had already pofiefied the 
heart of the liidorian Gibbon. He was loon after ap¬ 
pointed the minider of the republic of Geneva at Paris; 
his lhare in the bufinefs was increafed; and on the death 
of Theludon he fet up a bank of his own, in partnerfiiip 
with Girardot and Haller, the latter a fon of the illuffcri- 
ous baron Haller. 
His high reputation for financial knowledge caufed 
him, in 1776, when the French finances were in a very 
difordered date, to be appointed direftor, and foon after 
comptroller-general, of that department in the date; and 
he was the fird Protedant, fince the revocation of the 
edift of Nantes, who had held any important place in the 
French adminidration. At that time Maurepas was 
prime-minider, an old courtier, who-occafionally made 
him feel his inferiority of birth, and was with difficulty 
brought to acquiefce in his fchemes of reform. Economy 
and regularity were the leading points of Necker’s finan¬ 
cial government. He fupprelled the pods of intendans 
des finances, ellabliflied provincial affernblies, and redored 
public 
