Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NEU'TER, n.²

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. Neuter 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.