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[ For he thoughte nevere evylle ne dyd evylle. A type [of cranium] which has received the name Nean derth a loid , because it reaches the extreme dev elopement in the famous skull discovered in the Neanderthal, near Bonn. W. H. Flower , Jour. Anthrop. Inst., XVI. 377. neapl (nep), a . and n. [ neep , nēp , scant or lacking (found alone but once, in the poet. phrase "forthganges nep , " without power of advancing), in comp. nepflod , low tide, ebb, lit. 'neap flood'; cf. Icel. kneppr , neppr , scanty; Sw. knapp = Dan. knap , scanty, strait, narrow, næppe , scarcely; perhaps orig. 'pinched, being appar. connected with nip1 . But the history is obscure.] I. a. Low; lowest: applied to those tides which, being half-way between spring tides, have the least difference of height between flood and ebb. See tide . II. n. 1. A neap tide. Her [the sea's] motion of ebbing and flowing, of high springs and dead neapes , are still as certaine and constant as the changes of the moone and course of the sunne. Hake will , Apology, II. viii. 1. 2. The ebb or lowest point of a tide. At everie full sea they flourish, but at every dead neape they fade. Greene, Carde of Fancie. The lowest ebbe may have his flow, and the deadest neepe his full tide. Greene, Tullie's Love. [In the following pa age from "English Gilds" neep se sons is defined by the editor as "the autumn;" by Skeat as "the neap-tide seasons, when boats cannot come to the quay." Item, it hath been vsid, the Maire [of Bristol] this quarter specially to oversee the sale of wodde commynge to the bakke and to the key. And that all grete wodde, callid Berkley wodde, be dischargid at the key beyond the Towre there, and all smalwodde to be dischargid at the Bak. Prouydid always that the woddesillers leve not the bak all destitute and bare of wodde, ne soffir not the halyers to hale it all awey, but that they leve res on able stuff upon the bak fro spryng to spryng, to serue the pouere people of penyworthes and halfpeny worthez in the пеер English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 425.] sesons. Deep neap, a neap tide shortly before a full or change of the moon, when there is a higher flood than at other neaps. neap2, n. See neep2. neap3 (nep), n. [Origin obscure.) The tongue Mandeville, Travels, p. 2. or pole of a wagon or ox-cart. No Indian drug had e'er been famed, Tobacco, sa afras not named; Ne yet of guacum one small stick, sir. B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. neaped (nēpt), a. [