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neer Now dial.|nɪə(r)|
Forms: 4–5, 9 nere, 5–6, 9 neer, 6, 9 neir(e, 9 niere; 6 neare, 8–9 near, (8 inear, 9 ear).
[ME. nēre, perh. repr. an OE. *néora or *néore = MDu. niere fem. (nire, nyre, Du. nier), MLG. nêre, OHG. nioro, niero masc. (G. niere fem.), ON. nýra neut. (Norw. nyra, nyre, Da. nyre; Sw. njure masc.), of uncertain origin.]
A kidney.
In common dial. use in the northern, north-midland, and eastern counties; the Suffolk nire, nyre is prob. from ON.
a1300E.E. Psalter lxxii. 21 Mi neres ere torned for vnquert. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxii. (Laurence) 12 It brakis þe stane, Þat man in bledyr ore nere has tane. c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 52 Þe hert of schepe, þe nere þou take. c1440Promp. Parv. 353/1 Neere of a beest, ren. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxxiv. 6 With the fatnesse of neeres of the wethers. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 67 Tansay, that is gude to purge the neiris. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.) 73 Ren, the neire. 1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 337 In-ear, or Near, the kidney. 1828Carr Craven Gloss. 1841Hamilton Nugæ Lit. 348 Will you eat a part of the niere? 1868G. Macdonald R. Falconer I. 41, I would like a dish o' your chits and nears.
b. attrib., as neer-creesh, neer-end, neer-fat, neer-strings.
1444Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 11 That na fleshowar..tak oute of ony mutonne the neris or the nerecress. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. s.v. Neers, Neer-strings, those strings which are connected with the kidneys. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss s.v., The near-end of a loin of veal is the part next the kidneys. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Near-fat, the fat round the kidneys in a sheep, pig, or other animal. |