Neigh"bor (nā"b&etilde;r), n.
[OE. neighebour, AS. neáhgebūr;
neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin
to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG.
nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor.]
[Spelt also neighbour.] 1. A person who
lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
Chaucer.
Masters, my good friends, mine honest
neighbors.
Shak.
2. One who is near in sympathy or
confidence.
Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
Shak.
3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly
kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
Luke x. 36.
The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes
every man my neighbor.
South.
Neigh"bor, a. Near to another;
adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor
cities." Jer. l. 40. "The neighbor room."
Shak.
neigh"bor, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Neighbored (?); p. pr. & vb. n
Neighboring.] 1. To adjoin; to border on;
tobe near to.
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the
shore.
Sandys.
2. To associate intimately with. [Obs.]
Shak.
Neigh"bor, v. i. To dwell in the
vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
[Obs.]
A copse that neighbors by.
Shak.
