neighborhood, neighbourhood (naborhud)

[ The Moon (who by priviledge of her neighbourhood preHowell, Pref. to Cotgrave's French Dict. dominates more over us than any other cælestial body). This day I hear that my pretty grocer's wife, Mrs. Beverham, over the way there, her husband is lately dead of the plague at Bow, which I am sorry for, for fear of losing her neighbourhood. Pepys , Diary, II. 323. The German built his solitary hut where inclination prompted. Close neighborhood was not to his taste. Motley, Dutch Republic, I. 9. 2. Conduct as a neighbor. The Duke of Sogorbe and the Monkes of the vale of Paradise did beare eache other ill wil, and did vse euill neigh borhoode. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 126. 3. The kindline and mutual readine to be friendly which arise out of the condition of being neighbors; the reciprocity and mutual helpfulne becoming to neighbors; neighborly feel 2. One who stands or sits near another; one in ings and acts. close proximity. Here one man's hand lean'd on another's head, His nose being shadow'd by his neighbour's ear. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 1416. See in her cell sad Eloisa spread, Propped on some tomb, a neighbour of the dead. Pope , Eloisa to Abelard, L. 304. 3. A person in relation to his fellow-men, re- garded as having social and moral duties to- ward them. He that did the office of a neighbour , he was neighbour . Latimer , 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VĨ., 1550. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart,. and thy neighbour as thyself. Luke x. 27. The gospel. makes every man my neighbour . Bp . Spratt , Sermons. That father held it for a rule It was a sin to call our neighbour fool. Pope , Prol. to Satires, 1. 383. 4. One who lives on friendly terms with another: often used as a familiar term of addre : as, neighbor Jones. Well said, i' faith, neighbour Verges. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 5. 39. At length the busy time begins. "Come, neighbours , we must wag." We... shall conserue the olde libertie of trafficke, and all other things which shall see me to apperteine to neigh bourhood betweene vs and your Maiesty. in Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 338. Let all the intervals or void spaces of time be employed works of nature, recreation, charity, friendline , Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, i. 1. and neighbourhood. I pray therefore forget me not, and believe for me also, if there be such a piece of neighborhood among Christians. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 93. 4. The place or locality lying next or nigh to some specified place; adjoining district; vic in- ity: as, he lived in my neighborhood : frequent- ly used figuratively. The cause of his disgrace was his cutting off so many Greek villages in the neighbourhood of that city, by which the lands were left uncultivated. Pococke , Description of the East, II. i. 242. I could not bear To leave thee in the neighbourhood of death. Add is on , Cato, iv. 1. Life slips from underneath us, like that arch Of airy workmanship whereon we stood, Earth stretched below, heaven in our neighborhood. Words worth, Desultory Stanzas. 5. Those living in the vicinity or adjoining locality; neighbors collectively: as, the fire Cowper, Yearly Distre . alarmed the whole neighborhood. 51. An intimate; a confidant. The deep revolving witty Bucking ham No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel. Shak., Rich. III., iv. 2. 43. Good neighbors. See good folk , under good . II.t a. Neighboring; adjacent; situated or dwelling near or in neighborhood: as, the neigh- bor village; neighbor farmers. In our neighbour Countrey Ireland, where truelie learning goeth very bare, yet are theyr Poets held in a deuoute Sir P. Sidney , Apol. for Poetrie. reuerence. I longd the neighbour towne to see. Spenser , Shep. Cal., January. And thither Phylax flies, Perching unseen upon a neighbour bough. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 36. neighbor, neighbour (nā'bor), v. [ neighbor , n.] I. trans. 1. To border on or be near to. Like some weak lords - neighboured by mighty kings. Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 517). These are the men formed for society, and those little communities which we expre by the word neighbourhoods . Steele , Spectator, No. 49. Being apprized of our approach, the whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister. Goldsmith, Vicar, iv. 6. A district or locality, especially when considered with reference to its inhabitants or their interests: as, a fashionable neighborhood ; a malarious neighborhood. There is not a low neighbourhood in any part of the city which contains not two or three [coal-shed men] in every street. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 94. In the neighborhood of, nearly; about. [Newspaper use, U. S.] The Catholic clergy of this city have purchased in the neighborhood of forty acres of land for a cemetery. Baltimore Sun , June 27, 1857. ( Bartlett .) =Syn. 1 and 4. Neighborhood , Vicinity , Proximity . The first two differ from proximity in being used concretely: as, the explosion was heard throughout the neighborhood or vicinity (but not proximity ). Neighborhood is closer and IMG:content-1285.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1286.png:[blocks in formation]