Who had lost, with these prizes, forty thousand pounds, after
twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies.
Evelyn.
3. The transaction of business between nations; the mutual intercourse
of governments by diplomatic agents, in making treaties, composing
difference, etc.; as, the negotiations at Ghent.
An important negotiation with foreign powers.
Macaulay.
Ne*go"ti*a`tor (?), n. [L.: cf. F. négociateur.] One who negotiates; a
person who treats with others, either as principal or agent, in respect
to purchase and sale, or public compacts.
Ne*go"ti*a*to*ry (? or ?), a. Of or pertaining to negotiation.
Ne*go`ti*a"trix (?), n. [L.] A woman who negotiates. Miss Edgeworth.
Ne*go`ti*os"i*ty (?), n. [L. negotiositas.] The state of being busy;
multitude of business. [Obs.]
Ne*go"tious (?), a. [L. negotiosus.] Very busy; attentive to business;
active. [R.] D. Rogers.
Ne*go"tious*ness, n. The state of being busily occupied; activity. [R.]
D. Rogers.
Ne"gress (?), n.; pl. Negresses (&?;). [Cf. F. négrese, fem. of négre a
negro. See Negro.] A black woman; a female negro.
||Ne*gri"ta (?), n. [Sp., blackish, fem. of negrito, dim. of negro
||black.] (Zoöl.) A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the
||Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.
Ne*grit"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.
Keary.
Ne*gri"tos (?), n. pl.; sing Negrito (&?;). [Sp., dim. of negro black.]
(Ethnol.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the
other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in
size. They are mostly nomads.
Ne"gro (?), n.; pl. Negroes (&?;). [Sp. or Pg. negro, fr. negro black,
L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.] A black man; especially, one of a
race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of
tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat
noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed
African blood, wherever found.
Ne"gro, a. Of or pertaining to negroes; black.
Negro bug (Zoöl.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and
blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable flavor. -- negro corn, the
Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. see Durra.
McElrath.
-- Negro fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in the
larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also carrot fly. --
Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath.
-- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.
Ne"groid (?), a. [Negro + - oid.] 1. Characteristic of the negro.
2. Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who
resemble the negro.
Ne"gro*loid (?), a. See Negroid.
Ne"gus (?), n. A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon
juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
||Ne"hi*loth (?), n. pl. [Heb.] (Script.) A term supposed to mean,
||perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v.
||(heading).
Ne*hush"tan (?), n. [Heb.] A thing of brass; -- the name under which
the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. 2 Kings
xviii. 4.
{ Neif, Neife } (nf), n. [OF. neïf, naïf, a born serf, fr. L. nativus
born, imparted by birth. See Native.] A woman born in the state of
villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.
{ Neif, Neaf (nf), } n. [Icel. hnefi; akin to Dan. næve, Sw. näfve.]
The fist. [Obs.] "I kiss thy neif." "Give me your neaf." Shak.
Neigh (n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Neighed (nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Neighing.]
[OE. neien, AS. hngan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. ngen, Icel.
hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gnägga. Cf. Nag a horse.] 1. To utter the cry of
the horse; to whinny.