nevel (nevel)

t.; pret. and pp. neveled or nevelled, ppr. neveling or nevelling. [Also spelled, erroneously, knevel; freq., Twa land-loupers. sair aneuch. 3980 got me down, and knevelled me Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxiv. nevent (nev'en), v. t. [ , nemn an (=OS. nemnjan = OHG. nemn an, MHG. nemnen, nen- nen , G. nennen = Icel. nefna = Goth. namnjan), name, nam a ( nam an- ), name: see name1 , n. Cf. namel, v.] To name; call; tell; say. I wol yow telle, as was me taught also, The foure spirites and the bodies sevene, By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene. new They [though] that hyt be so, that there been many other Wayes that men goon by aftur Count rees that they comen fram, nevere the la e thay turne alle un tylle an ende. Mandeville , Travels, p. 128. Yet neuer the lese, sithe I vnderstonde Your purpose is to depart owt of the land, I wolle fulfille your pleasur in this case. past, present, or future. He ansuerde that he wolde neuer be knyght before that the beste knyght of the worlde that eny man knewe hadde yove hym armes and the acoole. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 520. One day we shall ble edly meet again, never to depart. Sir P. Sidney , Arcadia, iii. She never was to me but all obedience, Sweetne , and love. None the more. There is another like lawe enacted agaynst wearing of Irish apparrell, but neverthemore is it observed by any. Spenser, State of Ireland. Obsolete forms of nephew . Dialectal forms of neveut, nevewt, n. Chaucer. nevey, nevy (nev'i), n. nephew. "Throw down the ba', ye Jew's daughter, Throw down the ba' to me!" " Never a bit," says the Jew's daughter, "Till up to me come ye." For I will love thee ne'er the le , my girl. Shak., T. of the S., i. 1. 77. At this rate a head will be reckoned never the wiser for being bald. Steele , Spectator, No. 497. Never fear, he's the son of an excellent Scottish lawyer; he'll shew blood, I'll warrant him. Scott , Guy Manner ing, xxxvii. [ Never in this use, with the following indefinite article a, is equivalent to no, or none, and in the contracted form ne'er a is the source of the dialectal or slang adjective nary. "Tis no matter: ne'er a fantastical knave of them all shall flout me out of my calling. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 3. 107.] Never indebted, in law, a plea allowed at common law in actions of debt on simple contracts other than negotiable paper, to the effect that defendant "never was indebted in manner and form as in the declaration alleged," which plea in general put in i ue whatever plaintiff might be required to prove under his declaration.- Never so, never such, to whatever extent or degree; no matter how (much, great, etc.); as never before was. Though there be never so moc he taken awey thereof on the Day, at Morwe it is as fulle azen as evere it was. Mandeville , Travels, p. 32. Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Ps. lviii. 5. But as for the women, poore soules! bee they never so0 good, they have the gates shut against them. Sandys , Travailes, p. 46. [In this idiom there is a suppre ed comparison - ' never (at any other time) so (great, good, much, etc.) as in the supposed or considered. Never, becoming merely emphatic, is now usually replaced by ever.)- Never the neart, never the nearer. See near. [ Never is much used in composition, as in never -ending, never -failing, nevermore (nev'er-mōr'), adv. [ never-dying, never -ceasing, never -fading.] She wanderd to the dowie glen, And nevir mair was sein. Sir James the Rose (Child's Ballads, III. 76). And my heart from out that shadow, that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted nevermore .