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The upper part of a glacier, above the limit or perpetual snow. See Galcier.

To name; to mention; to utter. [Obs.] As oft I heard my lord them neven. Chaucer.

t any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope.

Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.

Nevertheless. [Obs.]

in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11.

Nephew. [Obs.] haucer.

Of or pertaining to Geneva, in Switzerland; Genevan. -- n. sing. & pl.

Same as Miniver.

Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.

At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.

; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.

ty of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

is to be used according to its usual acceptation. My words, in common acceptation, Could never give this provocation. Gay.

bow. The Persian dames, . . . In sumptuous cars, accompanied his march. Glover. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Sir P. Sidney. He was accompanied by two carts filled with wounded rebels. Macaulay.

from the fray. Spenser. All which particulars, being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

etion. [R.] The silent accrescence of belief from the unwatched depositions of a general, never contradicted hearsy. Coleridge.

arge, as a claim or debt; to clear off; to pay off; to requite. A responsibility that can never be absolutely acquitted. I. Taylor.

dly inclined; zealous. [Obs.] Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat.

Before. [Obs.] If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.