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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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6 words match “NEIGHBORLY”

NEIGHBORLY a. 2 definitions
In a neigborly manner. Judge if this be neighborly dealing. Arbuthnot.
UNNEIGHBORLY a. 2 definitions
Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv.
BEE n.
A neighborly gathering of people who engage in united labor for the benefit of an individual or family; as, a quilting bee; a husking bee; a raising bee. [U. S.] The cellar . . . was dug by a bee in a single day. S. G. Goodrich.
NEIGHBOR n.
One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.
NEIGHBORHOOD n.
The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
NEIGHBORLINESS n.
The quality or state of being neighborly.