1. One who dwells or is seated near to another (2 Kings iv. 3.) 2. Every man to whom we have an opportunity of doing good (Matt. xxii. 39.) 3. A fellow labourer of one and the same people (Acts vii. 27.) 4. A friend (Job xvi. 21.)

At the time of our Saviour, the Pharisees had retrained the word neighbour to signify those of their own na- tion only, or their own friends; being of opinion that to hate their enemy was not forbidden by their law. But our Saviour informed them, that the whole world were their neighbours; that they ought not to do to another what they would not have done to themselves; and that this charity ought to be extended even to their enemies, (Matt. v. 43. Luke x. 29. &c.)

NETSE, a town of Silesia in Germany, and the residence of the bishop of Breslau, who has a magnifi- cent palace here. The air is very wholesome, and provisions are cheap; the inhabitants carry on a great trade in wine and linen. This place suffered greatly by an inundation and fire in 1729. It was taken by the Prussians in 1741, who augmented the fortifications af- ter the peace in 1742, and built a citadel to which they gave the name of Prussia. It is seated on a river of the same name, in E. Long. 17. 35. N. Lat. 50. 32.

NEUS MONS, in Ancient Geography, at the foot of which stood Ithaca, a town of the island of that name, (Homer.)