The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neither \Nei"ther\, conj. Not either; generally used to introduce the first of two or more co["o]rdinate clauses of which those that follow begin with nor.
Fight neither with small nor great, save only with the
king.
--1 Kings
xxii. 31.
Hadst thou been firm and fixed in thy dissent,
Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me.
--Milton.
When she put it on, she made me vow
That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
--Shak.
Note: Neither was formerly often used where we now use nor.
``For neither circumcision, neither uncircumcision is
anything at all.''
--Tyndale. ``Ye shall not eat of it,
neither shall ye touch it.''
--Gen. iii. 3. Neither is
sometimes used colloquially at the end of a clause to
enforce a foregoing negative (nor, not, no). ``He is
very tall, but not too tall neither.''
--Addison. '' `I
care not for his thrust' `No, nor I neither.'''
--Shak.
Not so neither, by no means. [Obs.]
--Shak.