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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.

See Allineation.

To align. [R.] Herschel.

Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

Beneath. [Scot.]

The act of bathing. [R.]

Belonging to a bath. [Obs.]

Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope.

The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. [R.] Johnson.

Wedge-shaped; (Bot.), wedge-shaped, with the point at the base; as, a cuneate leaf.

Cuneiform. "Cuneatic decipherment." Sayce.

Delineated; portrayed. [R.]

ng, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless…

One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.