neigh (as na), negh

i. [A.S.hnégan; cogn. with Icel. gneggja, hneggja; Sw. gnagga; Dan. gnegge; M. H. Ger. négen.] 1. Lit .: To utter the cry of a horse; to whinny. "Youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds bellowing and neighing loud." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. 2. Fig .: To scoff, to sneer, to jeer. neigh (as nā), s . [NEIGH, v.] The cry of a horse; a whinny. "It is the prince of palfreys; his neigh is like the bid. ding of a monarch."- Shakesp .: Henry V. , iii. 7. IMG:content-1633.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To be neighboring to; to adjoin; to border on or near to; to lie near or adjacent to. 2. To make acquainted or familiar; to familiarize. "Being of so young days brought up with him, And since so neighbor'd to his youth and 'havior." Shakesp.: Hamlet , ii. 2. B. Intransitive: 1. To be near or adjacent; to adjoin. "A copse that neighbors by." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 259. 2. To live in the vicinity or neighborhood. "Divers princes who do neighbor near." -Sir J. Davies. neigh-bor-e (eigh as ā), *neygh-bour-e e, 8. [Eng. neighbor; -e .] A woman who is a neigh bor . "That ye maye lerne your doughters to mourne, and that euery one may teache her neighbour e e to make lament a cion." -Jeremye, ch. ix. (1551.)