Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.