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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.

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.

Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.

A bathing room. Sir T. Browne.

Of, pertaining to, or included by, two lines; as, bilinear coördinates.

Consisting of, or bounded by, curved lines; as, a curvilinear figure.

The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.

In a curvilinear manner.

The chief of a family or tribe.

To inter. [R.] Southey.

erted between lines already written or printed; containing interlineations; as, an interlinear manuscript, translation, etc. -- In`ter*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.

Interlinear. -- n.

Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf. Linear differential (Math.), an equation which is of the first degree, when the expression which is equated to zero is regarded as a function of the dependent variable and its differential coefficients. -- Linear equatio…

Of a linear shape.