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adjective

Neat adj. Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.

Neat adj. (compar. neater; superl. neatest)

Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy. "If you were to see her, you would wonder what poor body it was that was so surprisingly neat and clean."

Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy; to drink one's vodka neat. Hence: (Chem.) Pure; undiluted; as, dissolved in neat acetone. "Our old wine neat."

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

With all deductions or allowances made; net. Note: (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.

Synonyms: Nice; pure; cleanly; tidy; trim; spruce.

noun

Neat n. (Zool.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot. "Wherein the herds(men) were keeping of their neat." "The steer, the heifer, and the calf Are all called neat." "A neat and a sheep of his own."

Neat's-foot, an oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... it is so apt, I should quote Horace, and say, 'Omnibus hoc vitium est.' There is no 'bus unseized by the Napoleonic Lipton. Do not ascend one of them supposing for a moment that by paying fourpence and going to the very end of the route you will come to a neat tea station, where you will be served with the cheering cup. Never; nor with a draught of Cadbury's cocoa or Nestle's milk, although you have jostled along for nine weary miles in company with their blatant recommendations to drink nothing else, and though you ...

— Penelope's English Experiences • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... of the tranquilizing order are grouped in this neat little book for the pleasure of little people and the relief of ...

— Dorothy Dainty at Glenmore • Amy Brooks

... is raised, excellent to the eyes of warfaring men, is its strength and symmetry admired. It is the work of years. Its neat embrasures, its finished parapets, its casemated stories show all the skill of modern science. But, anon, a small spark is applied to the treacherous fusee—a cloud of dust arises to the heavens—and then nothing is to be seen but dirt and dust ...

— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope

... singing a neat thing by LONGFELLOW about the Evening Star, and seemed to experience the most remarkable psychological effects from Mr. BUMSTEAD'S wooden variations and extraordinary stare at the lower part of her countenance. Thus, she twitched her plump shoulders ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various

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