ne
 (a.)舊姓的,原名的
 ne adv.  Not; never. [Obs.]
    He never yet no villany ne said.   --Chaucer.
 Note: ☞ Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See Negative, 2.
 ne, conj.  Nor. [Obs.]
    No niggard ne no fool.   --Chaucer.
 Ne . . . ne, neither . . . nor. [Obs.]
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 Ne
      n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in
           a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in
           the air in small amounts [syn: neon, atomic number 10]
      2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45
         degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east]
      3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska, Cornhusker
         State]