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Show N/E N E One in the neighbourbood mortally fick of the {mall-pox, defiring the door to come to him. Fell We are not to be guided either by the mifréport of fome ancients, or the capricio's of one ar two 7eo To leaye thee in the ncighbourbood of death But flew in all the hafte of love to find thee. Addif 2. State of being near each other Confider feveral ftates in a neighbourbosd ; in orde An herb Ner. n. /. [nepeta, Latin. NePENTHE. #. /. [» and z43@. drug that drives away all pains There where no paffion, pride, or fhame tranfport Lull'd with the fweet zepenthe of a court There where no fathers, brothers, friends difgrace Once break their reft, nor ftir them from thei Pope place to preferve peace between thefe ftates, it is neceffary they fhould be formed into a balance Swif? 3. T'hofe that live within reac munication of com How ill mean neighbourhood your genius {uits To live like Adam midftan herd of brutes ! Harte Ne1'cnsourLy. adj. [from neighbour. Becoming a neighbour; kind ; civil NE'PHEW. #. /. [nepos, Latin 5 newveu French. 1. The fon of a brother or fifter Immortal offspring of my brother Jove My brighteft #ephezv and whom beft I'love. Dryden I afk, whether in the inheriting of this paterna power, the grandfon by a daughter, hath a righ before a nepheav by a brother Locke The Scottith lord hath a neighbourly charity i him ; for he borrowed a box of the ear of the Englithman, and fwore he would pay when he was able Shake[peare's Merchant of Venice The Woodberry fo nigh, and eighbourly doth live ‘With Abberley his friend Drayton He fteals my cuftomers; twelve he has unde bonds never to return; judge if this be meighbourl dealing Arbutbnot Nei'caBouRrRLY. adv. [from neighbour. With focial civility NEI'THER. conjuns. [napdepn, Saxon ne either. 1. Not either. A particle ufed in the firf branch of a negative fentence, and anfwered by #or Fight seither with fmall #or great, fave only wit . the king 1 Kings, xxils 31 Men lived 4t home, neither intent upon any fo- reign merchandife, nor inquifitive after the lives an fortunes of their neighbours Heylyn 2. It is fometimes the {econd branch of negative or prohibition to any fentence Ye fhall not eat of it, neither fhall ye touch it Genefis, iile 3 This commandment ftandeth nor for a cypher meither is it read and expounded in vain among Chriftians White 3. Sometimes at the end of a fentence i Grew tericks 1 could not bea NE 2 The grandfon Out of ufe With what intent they were firft publifhed, thof words of the nepheww of Jefus do plainly fignify after that my grandfather Jefus had given himfel to the reading of the law and the prophets, an other books of our fathers, and had gotten therei fufficient judgment, he propofed alfo to write fomething pertaining to learning and wifdom Hooker Her fire at length is kind Prepares his empire for his daughter's eafe And for his hatching nephevs fmooths the feas Dryden 3. Defcendant ufe however diftant Out o All the fons of thefe five brethren reign' By duc fuccefs, and ail their nepheavs late Even thrice eleven defcents the crown retain'd Spenfer Nerur1'TICK. ad). [vepylin®; nephretique French. 1. Belonging to the organs of urine 2. Troubled with the ftone The diet of nephritic perfons ought to be op pofite to the alkalefcent nature of the falts in thei blood Arbathnot follows as a negative; and though not 3. Good againft the ftone Th nepbriti fron i commo ly of an unifor very grammatically, yet emphatically dufky green; but fome famples I have feen of i after another negative; in old Englifh that are variegated with white, black, and fometime two negatives denied yellow Waoodward If it be thought that it is the greatnefs of dif- | Ne‘porism n. /. [nepotifme, French tance, whereby the found cannot be heard ; we fe unepos, Latin.] Fondnefs for nephews that lightnings and corufca ions near at hand yield 7o found neither Bacon Men come not to the knowledge of which ar thought innate, 'till they come to the ufe of reafon nor then neither Locke WNer'THER. pronoun nor other Not either; nor on Nor either cares for him Which of them fhall I take one ; S}Jz:k'fpum'c or neither 2 neither can be enjoy' If both remain alive Shakepeare's King Lear ‘I'he balance, by a propenfity to either fide, incline "t0 neither Fell Suffice it that he's dead 5 all wrongs die with hi Thuy I abfolve myfelf, and excufe him Who fav'd my lite and honour, but praife zeither Dryden Experience makes us fenfible of both, thoug opr narrow underftandings can comprehend zeither I/(/(,Lt" They lived with the friendthip an hrethren nejther lord equality o neither flave to his brother but independent of each other Ne'nvPHAR. 7. [ [mymphea Locke Latin. Water lily, or water rofe NEO'PHYTE. . f. [neophyte, French ; and ¢vw.] One regenerated; a convert NeoTE RICK. adj. [neotericus, Lat.] Modern novel fent fplendor ; for it would have been impofiible t have furnifhed out fo many glorious palaces wit fuch a profufion of pictures and ftatues, had no the riches of the people fallen into different familics NERVE He neither loves Both To this humour of #eporifm Rome owes its pre late #. /. [nerwus, Latin' A([(/i/&ll nerf, Fr. 1. The organs of fenfation pafling from th brain to all parts of the body The nerwes do ordinarily accompany the arterie through all the body; they have alfo blood vefitl as the other parts of the body Wherever an nerve fends outya branch, or receives one fro another, or where two nerves join together, there i generally a ganglio or plexus Ruincy What man dare I dare Approach thou like the rugged Ruffian bear Take any fhape but that, and my firm nerwe Shall Dever tremble Shakefpeare's Macbeth z. It is ufe tendon by the poet for finew o If equal powre Thou wouldft inflame, amids my zerves, as the I could encounterwith three hundred men. Chapman Strong Tharyfmed difcharged a fpeeding blo Fl,lll on his neck, and cut the nerwes in two Ne'RvELESS. adj. [from nerwe. out ftrength There funk Thalia Pope With nervelefs, faint and dead Had not her fifter Satirc held her head Durciad Ne'rvous. adj. [nervof s, Lagin 1. W ll ftrung ; firong; vigoroy ‘What nerwvous arms he boafts, how fi ‘m'h His limbs how turn'd PW'!"(;;I 2. Relating to the nerves in the nerves o The venal torrent, murm'rin fr Whifper'd no peace to calm thisg erwu?%vr; And Philomel, the firen of the pla n Sung foporific unifons in vain 3. [In medical cant. difeafed nerves Havin Poor, weak, nervous creatures Ha yeg ¥ Chry Nervy. adj. [from nerve.] Strong_‘]vi- gorous Not in ufe Death, that dark fpirit, in his nere armdoth 1, | Which being advanc'd, declines, and};hen mz:hdl;: NE'scieNcE Shakefur n f. [from nefeis, La{i‘,, Ignorance ; the ftate of not knowin Many of the moft accomplifhed wits of 4] have refolved their knowledge into Socrate his fi total, and after all their pains in queft of fg} have fat down in a profefled nefcience NesH der adj [nerc Saxon. eafily hurt Skinner Glapjj Soft; g I NEss 1. A termination added to an adjedie to change it into a fubftantive, denating Jtate or quality : as, poifonous, pifomj nefs; turbid, turbidnefs; lovely, v from niyre, Saxon 2. The termination of many names o places where there is a headland promontory ; from nepe, Saxonj | nofe of land, or headland NEST. #./. [nerz, Saxon. 1. The bed formed by the bird forincubs tion and feeding her young If a bird's neff chance to be before thee inti J way fhalt not take the dam with the yourg. | j tho Deateronomyy xxi Th* example of the heav'nly lark Thy fellow poet, Cowley, mark Above the fkies let thy proud mufick found Thy humble 7¢f build on the ground Coul 2. Any place where animals are prodpced Redi found that all kinds of putrefaction didonl afford a neff and aliment for the eggs and youngo thofe infeéts he admitted Bewtl 3. An abode; place of refidencae; ceptacle. Generally in a bad feuk as, a nef? of rogues and thieves Of death Come from that ref contagion, and unnatural fleep. , Sl‘{ 4. A warm clofe habitation, generally contempt Some o?ou‘r.;ninifiers having livi‘n.gs offered ‘"' them, will neither, for zeal of religion, nor "": ning fouls to God, be drawn forth from thu‘;?‘\:}m 2cfES o fiBoxes or drawers; little pockets or pofitories 7o Nest. v. z build nefts [from the noun The cedar ftretched his branches as .,fi:as mountains of the moon, and the King Aneg nefted within his leaves NE'sTEGG. 7./. [#eff and egg.]h n"f»w left in the neft to keep the h A forfaking it Books and money laid for fhew Hudi Like neffeggs, to make clients lay 7o N&'sTLE @. z T [frem mjfi&.afl fettle; to harbour; to lie€ as a bird in her neft fnug f i i r f s w o 'l‘}glgir pur i |
