nenen.
/ˈneɪneɪ/, U.S. /ˈneɪˌneɪ/ The Hawaiian goose, Branta (or Nesochen) sandvicensis, which is endemic to Hawaii and closely related to the Canada goose, B. canadensis.The nene came close to extinction but following captive breeding it is being re-established in Hawaii.
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1902 H. W. Henshaw Birds Hawaiian Islands 103 Upon the island of Hawaii the haunts of the nene..are the uplands.
1915 W. A. Bryan Nat. Hist. Hawaii xxv. 336 The nene or Hawaiian goose..is confined to the Island of Hawaii, where it leads a life of seclusion, high up on the mountainside.
1945 Condor 47 34 Direct influences were brought to bear upon the Nene by white men directly and indirectly through altered environment.
1958 E. T. Gilliard Living Birds of World 80/2 One of the rarest is the néné or Hawaiian Goose (Branta sandvicensis) of which less than 70 wild birds are thought to survive.
1989 New Scientist 28 Oct. 56/2 Conservationists returned the nene, the Hawaiian goose, to its native islands after it bred successfully at reserves.
1997 Daily Tel. 31 Mar. 5 (caption) Two newly-hatched rare Ne Ne goslings enjoy the Easter sunshine at the Penclacwydd Wildlife Centre in Llanelli, South Wales.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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ne..ne(..ne)
a. Following a negative clause or a word with negative force (frequently ne itself as adverb). Frequently in correlative constructions, as ne..ne(..ne): neither..nor(..nor).In 18th and 19th cent. use archaic and poetic.
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β. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5680 Tu beo. forr þrisst. & ec forr hunngredd. Nohht affterr mete. naffterr drinnch Acc affterr rihhtwisnesse.a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 9906 Þey nadde neyþer drede naffray.eOE (Northumbrian) Leiden Riddle 5 Uundnae me ni biað ueflæ, ni ic uarp hafæ.
eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) v. 4 (6) Non habitabit iuxta te malignus, neque permanebunt iniusti ante oculos tuos : ne eardað neh ðe awerged ne ðorhwuniað ða unrehtwisan biforan egum ðinum.
OE Blickling Homilies 25 Nis þær ænig sar gemeted, ne adl, ne ece, ne nænig unrotnes.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1110 Naþer ne leoht ne trændel ne nan þing mid ealle of him wæs gesæwen.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 I ne can..tellen alle þe wunder ne alle þe pines.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 10259 Ne bi-læfde he..suster ne broðe[r].
a1300 Passion our Lord 3 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 37 (MED) Nis hit nouht of karlemeyne ne of þe Duzeper.
c1330 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Auch.) (1966) 12 (MED) Ne iren ne stel schal derie þe.
c1375 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 3520 Ther nas kyng ne prynce in al that lond That he nas glad if he that grace fond.
c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 1 (MED) Þai schuld neuer be schamyd ne chent, Ne lost here lyfe, ne lond, ne rent.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 28 He ne wyst where he was, ne whither he went.
c1537 T. Cranmer Let. 26 May in Remains (1833) I. 186 He cannot in that diocese be accepted ne allowed.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 666 They ne could ne would help the afflicted.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlv. xxxv. 1225 No doubt was made at all of the triumph of Anicius, ne yet of Octavius.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 229 They could not, ne did not say that they had.
1742 W. Shenstone School-mistress viii Ne did she e'er complain, ne deem it rough.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 16 Ne could we laugh, ne wail.
1803 L. Hunt Juvenalia ii. 192 Sir Guyon..Mov'd not, ne turn'd, ne look'd about.
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