1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 31 The building together, and neighbouring of houses, by which means we have our Cities, Borroughs, and Villages.

1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 38 In the neighbouring visits to the gentry who lived around him,—you will easily comprehend, that the parson, so appointed, would both hear and see enough to keep his philosophy from rusting.

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 50 I've plenty to do at home, I've not time to go neighbouring.

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 97 I was never one for so much neighbouring and newsing.

1954 Scotsman 23 July 4/5 The changing times are bringing about the slow death of the old Highland custom known as ‘neighbouring’, I hear. Under this system neighbours co-operated at the clippings and other big events which demand a big labour force.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. at Neighbour Neighbouring, the act of co-operating in farmwork.

1942 Sociometry 5 227 To what extent does residence determine neighboring?

1956 J. M. Mogey Family & Neighbourhood v. 93 Although the most general strand in the pattern of neighbouring..is the ‘keep myself to myself’ one, all these individuals have great reserves of friendliness.

1978 P. Abrams in J. Barnes & N. Connelly Social Case Res. 80 The general trend of sociological analysis of issues related to community care, which..discern a decline of effective community care, local attachment, neighbouring and so forth.

1990 O. Stevenson Age & Vulnerability 37 These networks, which included certain kinds of neighbouring, included those for whom ties of kinship were of primary significance.

1595 H. Chettle Piers Plainnes Prentiship sig. B^v Your selfe exceeding each neighboring shepheard in goods.

1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 5 The neyboring sands..stand as a trench or guarde.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iv. i. 16 He hath a smacke of all neighbouring Languages. View more context for this quotation

1641 H. Thorndike Of Govt. Churches 66 They were made in due time by the heads of neighbouring Churches.

1684 A. Behn Poems Several Occasions 17 Ecchoes repeat his Glorious Name To all the Neighbouring Woods and Hills.

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 2 Paris and Versailles, whose Neighbouring Parts contain so many Wonders of this Nature.

1750 W. Beawes Lex Mercatoria (1752) 1 A neighbouring spring slacked their thirst.

1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 58 The scheme of bringing our Court to a resemblance to the neighbouring Monarchies.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ix. 75 Miss Squeers had been spending a few days with a neighbouring friend.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola III. xxii. 249 He stood and watched the scene from behind a neighbouring bush.

a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) vii. 230 He laid his finger on Cauldstaneslap and two other neighbouring farms, Kingsmuirs and Polintarf.

1922 ‘R. Crompton’ Just—William v. 96 A neighbouring church clock struck four.

1948 E. Waugh Loved One 1 The ever present pulse of music from the neighbouring native huts.

1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 104 Perceptual testing..should cast some light on the extent of lengthening of neighbouring consonants.

1881 Amer. Jrnl. Math. 4 191 V may be at an infinitely neighboring point on the same conic.

1891 G. L. Cathcart tr. A. Harnack Introd. Study Elem. Differential & Integral Calculus i. x. 106 The quotient ^dy/ _dx, provided that it is real, remains even in the singular points a continuous function of x, for it can be derived as limiting value from neighbouring points.

1972 M. Kline Math. Thought l. 1165 He [sc. Möbius] proposed studying the relationship between two figures whose points are in one-to-one correspondence and such that neighboring points correspond to neighboring points.

1987 M. A. Muhamad & A. V. Holden Chaos (BNC) 18 If closely neighbouring points on an attractor give trajectories that..rapidly separate, then motion on the attractor shows a sensitivity to initial conditions.