Neigh"bor, v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the
neighborhood; to be near. [Obs.]
A copse that neighbors by.
Shak.
Neigh"bor*hood (?), n. [Written also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or
condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near;
proximity.
Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
Ld. Lytton.
2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants
of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire
alarmed all the neiborhood.
4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good
will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity.
Neighborhood is Anglo- Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not
commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood
is a more immediate vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square
are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat
further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.
Neigh"bor*ing, a. Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring
nations or countries.
Neigh"bor*li*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being neighborly.
Neigh"bor*ly, a. [Also written neighbourly.] Appropriate to the
relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind;
civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner.
Judge if this be neighborly dealing.
Arbuthnot.
Neigh"bor*ship, n. The state of being neighbors. [R.] J. Bailie.
||Neis"hout (?), n. [From D. niezen to sneeze + hout wood.] (Bot.) The
||mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the
||sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also
||called sneezewood.
Nei"ther (? or ?; 277), a. [OE. neiter, nother, nouther, AS. nwðer,
nhwæðer; n never, not + hwæðer whether. The word has followed the form
of either. See No, and Whether, and cf. Neuter, Nor.] Not either; not
the one or the other.
Which of them shall I take? Both? one? or neither? Neither can be
enjoyed, If both remain alive.
Shak.
He neither loves, Nor either cares for him.
Shak.
Nei"ther, conj. not either; generally used to introduce the first of
two or more coördinate clauses of which those that follow begin with
nor.
Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king.