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

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.

To exceed in weight or value.

To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.

To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton. Hooker.

Weight over and above what is required by law or custom.

See under Paper, n.

A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

obs. imp. sing. of See. Saw. Chaucer.

r transporting persons or goods on snow or ice; -- in England commonly called a sledge. Sleigh bell, a small bell attached either to a horse when drawing a slegh, or to the sleigh itself; especially a globular bell with a loose ball which plays inside instead of a clapper.

The act of riding in a sleigh.

Cunning; craft; artful practice. [Obs.] "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer.

Cunning; dexterous. [Obs.]

Cunningly. [Obs.] Huloet.

Cunning; sly. [Obs.] Huloet.