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The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n.

us Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. Chaucer. Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat. Spenser. The steer, the heifer, and the calf Are all called neat. Shak. A neat and a sheep of his own. Tusser. Neat's-foot, an oil obtained…

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

To make neat. [Obs.] olland.

In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

The state or quality of being neat.

A woman who takes care of cattle. [R.] Warner.

The nose; the snout; the mouth; the beak of a bird; a nib, as of a pen. [Also written nib.] Shak.

Same as Bablh.

A genus of small marine Crustacea, considered the type of a distinct order (Nebaloidea, or Phyllocarida.)

like, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulæ are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.

Of or pertaining to nebulæ; of the nature of, or resembling, a nebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process of formation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms by Kant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, it supposed the matter of the solar system to have existed origi…

Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.

The condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill- defined, color mark.

A little cloud; a cloud. [Obs.] O light without nebule. Old Ballad.

Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

The act or process of nebulizing; atomization.

To reduce (as a liquid) to a fine spray or vapor; to atomize.