Neuter \Neu"ter\, 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.
--Young.
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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |