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NEUTER

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a person indifferent, who has espoused neither party, and is neither friend nor foe.

A judge ought to be neuter in the causes he judges; in questions, where reason appears neuter, a man should ever incline to the side of the unhappy.

Grammar, denotes a sort of gender of nouns, which are neither masculine nor feminine. See Gender.

The Latins have three kinds of genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter. In English, and other modern tongues, there is no such thing as neuter nouns. See Noun.

Verbs Neuter, by some grammarians called intransitive verbs, are those which govern nothing, and that are neither active nor passive. See Verb.

When the action expressed by the verb has no object to fall upon, but the verb alone supplies the whole idea of the action; the verb is said to be neuter: as, I sleep, thou yawnest, he sneezes, we walk, ye run, they stand still.

Some divide verbs neuter into, 1. Such as do not signify any action, but a quality; as albet, "it is white;"