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Not; never. [Obs.] He never yet no villany ne said. Chaucer.

A writ to restrain a person from leaving the country, or the jurisdiction of the court. The writ was originally applicable to purposes of state, but is now an ordinary process of courts of equity, resorted to for the purpose of obtaining bail, or security to abide a decree. Kent.

The uttermost point to which one can go or attain; hence, the summit of achievement; the highest point or degree; the acme.

the Council declaring invalid [so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at least two witnesses. The decree was issued Aug. 2, 19…

a contraction of Never.

A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing.

See 2d Neif. Shak.

To anneal. [R.] Chaucer.

Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is esti…

Like, or pertaining to, the Neanderthal skull, or the type of man it represents.

Low. Neap tides, the lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

Of of pertaining to Maples in Italy. -- n.

An ice or ice cream containing eggs as well as cream.

At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me. Milton.

Any of various malt liquors (see Citation).

Having the feet so near together that they interfere in traveling. Shak.

Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

Near; near at hand; closely. [Obs. or Scot.] Bacon.

In a near manner; not remotely; closely; intimately; almost.