nigger2 (niger)

t. [ They niggered the huge logs off with fire, which was kept burning for days. Stephen Powers, in "Country Gentleman." 2. To exhaust (soil or land) by working it year after year without manure: with out . S. De Vere, American isms, p. 116. [Local, U. S.] niggerdom (nig'er-dum), n. [ nigger2 +-dom.] Niggers collectively. Swarming with infant niggerdom . W. H. Ru ell , My Diary, i. 123. (Encyc. Dict.) nigger-fish (nig'er-fish), n. A serranoid fish, Epinephelus or Enneacentrus punctatus , of an olivaceous yellow or red color, relieved by small round blue spots, with one or two dark spots on the tip of the chin and one on the caudal peduncle. It is found in the Caribbean Sea and along the coast of Florida. It is one of the groupers, and is also called butter - fish and cony . I shall so niggle you Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 3. And juggle you. 3. To fill with exce of details; over-elaborate. [ handwriting; a scribble; a scrawl. Sometimes it is a little close niggle. niggler (nig'ler), n. T. Hood , Tylney Hall, Int. [ niggle + -er1.] 1. trifles.-2. One who is Grose . [Prov. Eng.] [Verbal n. of niggle , v .] One who niggles or clever and dexterous. niggling (nig'ling), n. Finicking, fu y, or over-elaborate work. Not a few of us, whatever our code of literary esthetics, may find delight, fleeting though it be, in the free outline ists. drawing of Cooper, after our eyes are tired by the niggling cro -hatching of many among our contemporary The Century, XXXVIII. 796. niggling (nig'ling), a. [ Titian is said to have painted this highly finished yet not niggling picture ["The Tribute-Money"] in order to prove to son some Germans that the effect of detail could be produced without those extreme minutiæ which mark the style of Albert Dürer. Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 416. nigh (nī), adv. and prep. [ ἠνεκής, reaching), Skt. ✓ naç, attain. Hence nigh, v., neighbor, near1, next, etc.] I. adv. 1. Close at hand; not far distant in time or place; at hand; near. Theire hertes trembled, and [they] seide oon to a-nother that the worlde was nygh at an ende. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 393. There Nestor the noble Duke was negh at his hond, With a company clene in his close halle.