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(1):

(a.) 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.

(2):

(a.) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.

(3):

(a.) Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.

(4):

(a.) Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.

(5):

(n.) A person who takes no part in a contest; one who is either indifferent to a cause or forbears to interfere; a neutral.

(6):

(n.) 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.

(7):

(n.) An intransitive verb.

(8):

(n.) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.