n. [ Burgh + bote. ] (Old Law) A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Burgh + F. brèche, equiv. to E. breach. ] (AS. Law) The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An alcoholic beverage having a liquor such as whiskey mixed with water or a carbonated beverage, and usually served with ice in a tall glass. [ wns=1 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Railroads) A railroad track signal permitting the engineer to proceed at full speed. [ PJC ]

n. A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. to the members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a high diving board. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of noble or aristocratic birth. Contrasted with lowborn and common. Shak.
Syn. -- aristocratic, blue-blooded, coroneted, gentle, patrician, titled, wellborn, upper-class. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who lives high; also, in politics, a highflyer. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A kind of tall chest of drawers, with drawers up to near or above eye level and fouyr legs at the base; it is often divided into lower and upper sections, with the lower section somewhat wider than the upper; also called a tallboy. Compare lowboy. [ U. S. ] “Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles.” K. L. Bates. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. [ informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor. ] [ Spelt also neighbour. ] 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

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No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36. [ 1913 Webster ]

The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. “The neighbor cities.” Jer. l. 40. “The neighbor room.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A copse that neighbors by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Neighbored p. pr. & vb. n Neighboring. ] 1. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To associate intimately with. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also neighbourhood. ] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Living or being near; adjacent; as, the neighboring nations or countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being neighborly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Also written neighbourly. ] Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judge if this be neighborly dealing. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being neighbors. [ R. ] J. Bailie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

{ } n. (Eng. Law) Wood or timber allowed to a tenant for the repair of instruments of husbandry. See Bote. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n. A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without neigbors. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not neighborly; distant; reserved; solitary; exclusive. -- adv. Not in a neighborly manner. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of large steelyard for weighing merchandise; -- also called weighmaster's beam. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) Clay intersecting a vein. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A weighing machine on which loaded carts may be weighed; platform scales. [ 1913 Webster ]