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Neuter

noun

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine).

verb

Remove the ovaries of. Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay.

adjective

Of grammatical gender.

Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs. Synonym: sexless.

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... leagues over the valley and beyond that over ridge upon ridge of hilltops. There she thought of many things and was very lonely. She could not have worded it but, deep in her heart, she felt the outcry of the Spring voice: "Make me anything but neuter when the sap ...

— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck

... in general the pageantry of office (inania honoris) expected of the Praetor. Observe the use of the neuter plural of the adj. for the subst., of which, especially before a gen., T. ...

— Germania and Agricola • Caius Cornelius Tacitus

... different word. These are mostly those which denote relationships and familiar animals, and there are in some cases, as in English, further words to denote the young of both sexes, or the neuter. ...

— A Handbook of the Cornish Language - chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature • Henry Jenner

... of the port detained his vessel and sent to Court for directions, and received orders to set the vessel at liberty; which orders were accompanied with a general declaration, that his Catholic Majesty was neuter in the dispute between England and America. Though the issue of this business was favorable, it was not direct to the point; we wished to establish the declaration of ...

— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

... Pidgings, as soon as look at you. Small 'ouse, by the river. Kep' by Miss Horkings, now her father's kicked. Female party." This was due to a vague habit of the speaker's mind, which divided the opposite sex into two genders, feminine and neuter; the latter including all those samples, unfortunate enough—or fortunate enough, according as one looks at it—to present no attractions to masculine impulses. Micky would never have described his great-aunt as a female party. She was, ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

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