Ne \Ne\, conj. [See Ne, adv.]
Nor. [Obs.]
--Shak.
No niggard ne no fool. --Chaucer.
Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Ne \Ne\, adv. [AS. ne. See No.]
Not; never. [Obs.]
He never yet no villany ne said. --Chaucer.
Note: Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of
negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never
(= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations,
now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad,
nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |