{ } n. [ OF. neïf, naïf, a born serf, fr. L. nativus born, imparted by birth. See Native. ] A woman born in the state of villeinage; a female serf. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Neighed p. pr. & vb. n. Neighing. ] [ OE. neien, AS. hn&aemacr_;gan, prob. of imitative origin; cf. MHG. nēgen, Icel. hneggja, gneggja, Sw. gnägga. Cf. Nag a horse. ] 1. To utter the cry of the horse; to whinny. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To scoff or sneer; to jeer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Neighed at his nakedness. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The cry of a horse; a whinny. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]