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One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.

who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger, desert the interest of their fellow subjects. Addison.

nt of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.

uity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred. I fell on the same argument of preferring virtue to nobility of blood and titles, in the story of Sigismunda. Dryden.

A silly fellow; a ninny.

A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow. [Colloq.] They have talked like numskulls. Arbuthnot.

In an oblique manner; not directly; indirectly. "Truth obliquely leveled." Bp. Fell. Declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray. Pope His discourse tends obliquely to the detracting from others. Addison.

sing forgetfulness. "The oblivious pool." Milton. She lay in deep, oblivious slumber. Longfellow.

ensible; blameworthy. "The contrived and interested schemes of ...obnoxious authors." Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller.

or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow.

connected, fragmentary, or the like; something that is separated or disconnected from its fellows; esp. (in pl.),

he German tribes. There in the Temple, carved in wood, The image of great Odin stood. Longfellow.

The act of offering, or the thing offered. [Obs. or R.] Bacon. Bp. Fell.

d dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.

which stands on the floor of a house on an island. I stood on the bridge at midnight. Longfellow.

A standard or ensign, in battle. "A handkerchief like an oriflamb." Longfellow. And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre. Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the Orkney islands. "Orkneyan skerries." Longfellow.

y out at interest. "Land that is out at rack rent." Locke. "He was out fifty pounds." Bp. Fell. I have forgot my part, and I am out. Shak.

Cast out; degraded. "Outcast, rejected." Longfellow.