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Neuter   /nˈutər/   Listen
noun
Neuter  n.  
1.
A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral. "The world's no neuter; it will wound or save."
2.
(Gram.)
(a)
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
(b)
An intransitive verb.
3.
(Biol.) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.


verb
neuter  v. t.  To render incapable of sexual reproduction; to remove or alter the sexual organs so as to make infertile; to alter; to fix; to desex; in male animals, to castrate; in female animals, to spay.


adjective
Neuter  adj.  
1.
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral. (Archaic) "In all our undertakings God will be either our friend or our enemy; for Providence never stands neuter."
2.
(Gram.)
(a)
Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.
(b)
Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
3.
(Biol.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.





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"Neuter" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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