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ffer to pass unimproved, unheeded, undone, etc.; to omit; to disregard; to slight; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay debts. I hope My absence doth neglect no great designs. Shak. This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. Milton.

The state of being neglected.

One who neglects. South.

Full of neglect; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive; indifferent. Pope. A cold and neglectful countenance. Locke. Though the Romans had no great genius for trade, yet they were not entirely neglectful of it. Arbuthnot. -- Neg*lect"ful*ly, adv. -- Neg*lect"ful*ness, n.

Carelessly; heedlessly. Shak.

The state of being negligent; negligence. [Obs.] Shak.

Neglectful. [R.] "Neglective of their own children." Fuller.

A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin As self-neglecting. Shak.

What is peculiarly one's own; peculiar qualification.[Obs.] If you can neglect Your own appropriaments. Ford.

of. -- To turn the back, to go away; to flee. -- To turn the back on one, to forsake or neglect him.

Archaic] If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them. Chatham.

A shrub of the genus Berberis, common along roadsides and in neglected fields. B. vulgaris is the species best known; its oblong red berries are made into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]…

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor. [Obs.] Wright. Bowmen bickered upon the bent. Chevy Chase.

on of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; -- usually resulting from neglected thrush.

servation of the Capitol from the Gauls; when reinstituted by Domitian, arter a period of neglect, they were held every fifth year.

off or lose a shoe, said of a horse or ox. -- To cast aside, to throw or push aside; to neglect; to reject as useless or inconvenient. -- To cast away. (a) To throw away; to lavish; to waste. "Cast away a life" Addison. (b) To reject; to let perish. "Cast away his people." Rom. xi. 1. "Cast one away." Shak. (c) To w…

A hundredth part. The neglect of a few centesimals. Arbuthnot.

To cease; to neglect. [Obs.] Spenser.

a neglect of a tenant to perform services, or make payment, for two years.

One who neglects, for two years, to perform the service by which he holds lands, so that he incurs the danger of the writ of cessavit. See Cessavit. Cowell.