NESS
\nˈɛs], \nˈɛs], \n_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of NESS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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In geog., any promontory or sudden projection of land into the sea-common as a postfix in names of places and capes-as Shoeburyness, Fifeness, Dungeness.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] A promontory; headland; cape- of frequent use in topography, as Sheerness, Inverness;- also an affix denoting pre-eminent quality, as goodness, greatness.
