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A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes. Keary.

ed Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.

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.

An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.

Characteristic of the negro.

See Negroid.

A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.

A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).

A thing of brass; -- the name under which the Israelites worshiped the brazen serpent made by Moses. 2 Kings xviii. 4.

The first. [Obs.] "I kiss thy neif." "Give me your neaf." Shak.

A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone.

To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [Obs.] Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl.

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.

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.

Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries.

The quality or state of being neighborly.

Apropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv.

The state of being neighbors. [R.] J. Bailie.

ike wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.