Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NEE-DLE-ZE'O-LITE, n.

A species of zeolite of a grayish white color. Ure.

NEED-LING, ppr.

Forming crystals like needles.

NEED-MENT, n.

Something needed or wanted. [Not used.] Shak.

NEEDS, adv. [from neced; Sax. nedes.]

Necessarily; indispensably; generally used with must. A trial at law must needs be innocent ia'itself. Kettlewell.

NEED-Y, a.

Necessitous; indigent; very poor; distressed by want of the means of living. To relieve the needy and comfort the afflicted, are duties that fall in our way every day. Addison. Spare the btushes of needy merit. Dwight.

NE'ER,

a contraction of Never.

NEESE, v. neer. [G. nresen; D. niezen; Sw. niusa; Dan. nyser; Ay. {foreign}. nashaa; hence sneeze. Class Ns, No. 30.]

To sneeze. [Obs.] [See Sneeze, which is formed on this word.]

NEESE-WORT, n.

A plant. Sherwood.

NEES-ING, n.

A sneezing. [Obs.]

NE-FAND'OUS, a. [L. nt-Janda; not to be spoken.]

Not to be named; abominable. Sheldon.

NE-FA'RI-OUS, a. [L. mfarius, from nefas, unlawful, or ne and for, fart, to utter.]

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; atrociously sinful or villainous; detestably vile.

NE-FA'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

With extreme wickedness; abominably. Milton.

NE-FA'RI-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality of being nefarious.

NE-GA'TION, n. [L. negatio, from nrgo, to deny, Sw. tau, Dan. nagter, W. mum, nagu, Fr. nier, from L. nego. The sense is to thrust, to stop or repel; for in Italian, negare is to deny, and annegare is to deny, nnd to drown, ro milk in water; Sp. negar, to deny; annegur, to drown or inundate, Fr. noyer.]

1. Denial; a declaration that something is not; opposed to affirmation; as, the soul is not matter.
2. In logic, description by denial, exclusion or exception. Negation is the absence of that which does not belong to a the thing we are speaking of. Watts.
3. Argument drawn from denial. It may be proved by way of negation, that they came not is from Europe, as having no remainder of the arts, learning and civilities of it. Heylin.

NEG'A-TIVE, a. [Fr. negatif; L. negativus.]

1. Implying denial or negation; opposed to affirmative, as a negative proposition is that which denies. Mater is not spirit.
2. Implying absence; opposed to positive. There is a negative way of denying Christ, when we do! not acknowledge and confess him. South.
3. Having the power of stopping or restraining. A negative voice in legislation is a voice or vote to prevent the passing of a law or decree.
4. Negative sign, in algebra, the sign of subtraction, a sign; Which indicates that the quantity to which it is prefixed is! s to he subtracted. It is opposed to positive or affirmative; as, ah--n.
5. Negative electricity, according to Dr. Franklin, is a deficiency of the fluid in substance, or less than the substance naturally contains.

NEG'A-TIVE, n.

1. A proposition by which something is denied; as, matter has not the power of moving itself.
2. A word that denies; as, not, no.
3. In legislation, the right or power of preventing the enaction of a law or decree. The governor has not a negative -0 on the proceedings of the legislature, but each branch has a negative on the other. Negative pregnant, a negation of one thing, implying the affirmation of another.

NEG'A-TIVE, v.t.

1. To disprove; to prove the contrary. The omission or infrequency of such recitals does not negative the existence of miracles. Paley.
2. To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction. The senate negatived the bill.
3. To resist a choice or what is proposed.

NEG'A-TIV-ED, pp.

Disproved; rejected by vote.

NEG'ATIVE-LY, adv.

1. With or by denial; as, he answered negatively. Boyle.
2. In the form of speech implying the absence of something; opposed to positively. I shalt show what this image of Cod in man is, negatively, by showing wherein it does not consist, and positively, by showing wherein it does consist. South.
3. Negatively charged or electrified. [See Positively.]

NEGATIVE-NESS, a.

The quality of being negative.

NEG'A-TO-RY, a.

That denies; belonging to negation. [Little used.]

NE'GER, n. [L. niger.]

A black person; one of the African black race. It is remarkable that this popular pronunciation is exactly the same as that of the Latins.

NEG-LCT, n.

1. Omission; forbearance to do any thing that can be done or that requires to be done. Neglect may be from carelessness or inattention. The neglect of business is the cause of many failures, but neglect of economy is more frequent and more injurious.
2. Slight; omission of attention or civilities. Neglect of duel notice and attention to strangers is characteristic of ill breeding.
3. Negligence; habitual want of regard. Age breeds neglect in alt. Denham.
4. State of being disregarded. Rescue my poor remains from vile neglect. Prior.

NEG-LECT, v.t. [L. neglectus, from negligo. In G. the corresponding word is nachlassen, D. nalaaten, compounds of nach, na, after, and lassen, laaten, to let, to leave, to suffer to pass, Eng. let, Fr. laisser. The sense of the latter words then is to leave behind, or permit to remain Dan. nachlaessig, negligent I suspect the L. negligo to be composed of the same prefix, neg for nash, and linquo, lictium, as is not radical the latter. But of this I am not confident]

1. To omit by carelessness or design; to forbear to do, use, employ, promote or attend to; as, to neglect duty or business; to neglect to pay honest debts; to neglect our interest or policy; to neglect the means in our power.
2. To omit to receive or embrace; to slight. How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation? Heb. ii.
3. 'To slight; not to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect. Among people of good breeding, strangers seldom complain of being neglected.
4. To postpone. [Not in use.] Shak.

NEG-LECTED, pp.

Omitted to be done; slighted; disregarded.