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r 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.

Being without neigbors. Cowper.

Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway. "The adjacent forest." B. Jonson. Adjacent or contiguous angle. (Geom.) See Angle.

to vigilance; excited by fear of approaching danger; agitated; disturbed; as, an alarmed neighborhood; an alarmed modesty. The white pavilions rose and fell On the alarmed air. Longfellow.

de that gold amongst you. Marlowe. Whether they quarreled among themselves, or with their neighbors. Addison.

orsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.

An old gentleman. [Obs.] You are a shrewd antiquity, neighbor Clench. B. Jonson.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took place. [Colloq. U. S.]

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

gregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the resul…

ickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. " Audacious traitor." Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." Milton.

process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.