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3. Free from admixture or adulteration; good
of its kind; as, neat brandy. "Our old wine
neat." Chapman.

4. Excellent in character, skill, or
performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design;
a neat thief.

5. With all deductions or allowances made;
net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net,
a., 3.]

neat line (Civil Engin.), a line to
which work is to be built or formed. -- Neat
work, work built or formed to neat lines.

Syn. -- Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.

'Neath (? or &?;), prep. & adv. An
abbreviation of Beneath. [Poetic]

Neat"herd` (?), n. A person who
has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

Neat"house` (?), n. A building for
the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Massinger.

Neat"i*fy (?), v. t. [Neat, a.


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