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[Eng. negotious; -ne .] Active employment; activity, neg otiosity. "God needs not our negotiousne , or double diligence, to bring his matters to pa ."-Rogers: Naaman the Syrian, p. 606. në-gre , s. [NEGRO.] A female negro. ně-gril-10, 8. [Sp., a dim in. from negro (q. v.).] Anthrop.: Lit., a small or young negro. Pick ering uses it almost, if not exactly, as a synonym of Negrito (q. v.). IMG:content-1631.png:[blocks in formation] Anthrop.: The distinctly dark, as opposed to the fair, yellow, and brown varieties of mankind. Their original home was probably all Africa south of the Sahara, India south of the Indo-Gangetic plains, Malaysia and the greater part of Austral asia. In early and middle Tertiary times this tract was probably broken up by the sea and the disappear ance of the region named by Sclater Lemuria. Negroes fall naturally into two great divisions: (1) African Negroes, (2) Papuans or Me lanes i ans. Prof. A. H. Keane ( Encyc . Brit . , ed. 9th, xvii. 316-320) makes four sub-divisions of African Negroes, accord ing to locality: (1) West Soudan and Guinea; (2) Central Soudan and Chad Basin; (3) East Soudan and Upper Nile; (4) South Africa. He estimates their number at 130,000,000, with probably 20,000,000 full-blood or half-caste negroes, either slaves or descendants of slaves, chiefly in tropical of sub tropical America, and enumerates the following as the chief anatomical and physiological points in which the Negro differs most from his own congeners: 1. The abnormal length of the arm, sometimes reaching to the knee-pan. 2. Prognathism (Facial angle 70, in Caucasian 82"). 3. Weight of brain, 35 oz. (in gorilla 20 oz., average Caucasian (Europe or America) 45 oz.) 4. Full black eye, black iris, and yellowish sclerotic coat. 5. Short, flat, snub nose, broad at extremity, with dilated nostrils and concave ridge. 6. Thick, protruding lips, showing inner surface. . Very large zygomatic arches. 8. Exceedingly thick cranium, enabling him to use the head as a weapon of attack. 9. Weak lower limbs, terminating in a broad, flat foot, with low instep, projecting and somewhat prehensile great toe, and "lark heel." 2828 10. Complexion deep brown, blackish, or even black, not due to any special pigment, but to the greater abundance of coloring matter in the Malpighian mucous membrane. 11. Short, black hair, distinctly wooly, not frizzly. 12. Thick epidermis, cool, soft, and velvety, mostly hairle , and emitting a peculiar odor, described as hircine. 13. Frame of medium height, thrown somewhat out of the perpendicular by the shape of the pelvis, the spine, tomical structure. the backward projection of the head, and the whole ana 14. The cranial sutures, which close much earlier in the Negro than in other races. black; as, a negro race. B. As adj.: Pertaining or relating to negroes; negro-bat, s. Zool.: Vesperugo maurus , a vespertilionine bat, with an extremely wide geographical range, being found along the axis of elevation in the Old World, from the Pyrenees to China, extending southward into India, Cochin China, and Java. The fur is sooty-brown or deep black, tipped with gray. negro-cachexy, s. [DIRT-EATING.] negro-coffee, s. Chem.: The seeds of Ca ia occidental is. They have a purgative action, but lose this property in the roasting. [CASSIA.]