Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NEU-ROL'O-GIST, n.

One who describes the nerves animals.

NEU-ROL'O-GY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a nerve, and {foreign}, discourse.]

A description of the nerves of animal bodies, or the doctrine of the nerves.

NEU-ROP'TER-AL, a.

Belonging to the order of neuropters.

NEU-ROS-PAST, n. [Gr. {foreign}, to draw with strings.]

A puppet; a little figure put in motion. More.

NEU-ROTIC, a. [Gr. {foreign}, a nerve.]

1. Relating to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, a neurotic disease.
2. Useful in disorders of the nerves.

NEU-ROT'IC, n.

1. A disease having its seat in the nerves.
2. A medicine useful in disorders of the nerves. Encyc.

NEU-RO-TOM'IC-AL, a. [See Neurotomy.]

Pertaining the anatomy or dissection of nerves.

NEU-ROT'O-MIST, n.

One who dissects the nerves.

NEU-ROTO-MY, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a nerve, and {foreign}, a cutting.]

1. The dissection of a nerve. Coxe.
2. The art or practice of dissecting the nerves.

NEU-TER, n.

1. A person that takes no part in a contest between two or more individuals or nations; a person who is either indifferent to the cause, or forbears to interfere.
2. An animal of neither sex, or incapable of propagation. The working bees are neuters. Ed. Encyc.
3. Neater verb, in grammar, a verb which expresses an action or state limited to the subject, and which is not followed by an object; as, I go; I sit; I am; I run; I walk. It is better denominated intransitive.

NEUTER, n. [L.; compounded of ne and uter, not either.]

1. Not adhering to either party; taking no part with either side, either when persons are contending, or questions ai discussed. It may be synonymous with indifferent, or it may not. The United States remained neuter during the French revolution, but very few of the people were indifferent as to the success of the parties engaged. A man may be neuter from feeling, and he is then indifferent; but he may be neuter in fact, when he is not in feeling or principle. A judge should be perfectly mutter in feeling, that he may decide with impartiality.
2. In grammar, of neither gender; en epithet given to nouns that are neither masculine nor feminine; primarily, to nouns which express neither sex.

NEUTRAL, a.

In botany, a proposed English substitute for neuter. Having neither stamens nor pistils.

NEU-TRAL, a. [Fr. neuter; L. neutralis, from neuter.]

1. Not engaged on either side; not taking an active part with either of contending parties. It is policy for a nation to be neutral when other nations are at war. Belligerents often; obtain supplies from neutral states.
2. Indifferent; having no bias in favor of either side or party.
3. Indifferent; neither very good nor bad. Some things good, and some things ill do seem, And neutral some in her fantastic eye. Davies. Neutral salt, in chimistry, a salt composed of an equal number of equivalents, both of acid and base; a salt in which none of the properties, either of the acid or base, are perceptible.

NEUTRAL-IST, n.

A neutral. [Little used.]

NEU-TRAL'I-TY, n.

1. The state of being unengaged in disputes or contests between others; the state of taking no part on either side. States often arm to maintain their neutrality.
2. A state of indifference in feeling or principle.
3. Indifference in quality; a state neither very good nor evil. [Little used.] Donne.
4. A combination of neutral powers or states; as, the armed neutrality.

NEU-TRAL-I-ZATION, n. [from neutralize.]

1. The act of neutralizing or destroying the peculiar properties of a body by combination with another body or substance.
2. The act of reducing to a state of indifference or neutrality.

NEU-TRAL-IZE, v.t.

1. To render neutral; to reduce to a state of indifference between different parties or opinions.
2. In chemistry, to destroy or render inert or imperceptible e the peculiar properties of a body by combining it with a different substance. Thus to neutralize acids and›. is to combine them in such proportions that the compound will not exhibit the qualities of either.
3. To destroy the peculiar properties or opposite dispositions of parties or other things, or reduce them to a state of indifference or inactivity; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize opposition. The benefits of universities—neutralized by moral evils. Ch. Obs. A cloud of counter citations that neutralize each other. R. Everett.

NEU-TRAL-IZ-ED, pp.

Reduced to neutrality or indifference.

NEU-TRAL-IZ-ER, n.

That which neutralizes; that which destroys, disguises or renders inert the peculiar properties of a body.

NEU-TRAL-IZ-ING, a.

Having the quality of rendering neutral.

NEU-TRAL-LY, adv.

Without taking part with either side; indifferently.

NEU-TRAL-TINT, n.

The tint or purple hue which instant hills assume.

NEVER, adv. [Sax. mere; ne, not, and [ere, ever.]

1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time. It refers to the past or the future. This man was never at Calcutta; he will never be there.
2. It has a particular use in the following sentences, Ask me never so much dower and gift. Gen. xxxiv. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Ps. lviii. A fear of battery,–though never so well grounded, is no duress. Blackstone. This is genuine English use of never, found in our Saxon authors, and it ought to be retained. "Ask me so much dower as never was done;" that is, dower to any extent. The practice of using ever in such phrases is corrupt. It not only destroys the force but the propriety of the phrase. Burke. Camden. Washington. Goldsmith. Hooke.
3. In no degree; not. Whoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse. South.
4. It is used for not. He answered him never a word; that is, not ever. This use is not common.
5. It is much used in composition; as, in never-ending, never-fading, never-dying, never-ceasing, never-fading; hut in all such compounds, never retains its true meaning.

NEV-ER-CEAS-ING, a.

Having no cessation or pause.

NEV-ER-SATED, a.

Never satisfied. Kirby.