Neuter

·noun An intransitive verb.

II. Neuter ·adj Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.

III. Neuter ·adj Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

IV. Neuter ·adj Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. ·see Neuter, ·noun, 3.

V. Neuter ·noun A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.

VI. Neuter ·noun A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

VII. Neuter ·adj Having a form belonging more especially to words which are not appellations of males or females; expressing or designating that which is of neither sex; as, a neuter noun; a neuter termination; the neuter gender.

VIII. Neuter ·noun An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or but imperfectly developed ones, as a plant without stamens or pistils, as the garden Hydrangea; ·esp., one of the imperfectly developed females of certain social insects, as of the ant and the common honeybee, which perform the labors of the community, and are called workers.