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"ref": "1807, George Burnett, Specimens of English prose-writers",
"text": "[...] with so horrible countenance, that no man dare not nighen towards him.",
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"To come near; approach."
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"(intransitive) To come near; approach."
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"ref": "1886, William Barnes, A glossary of the Dorset dialect",
"text": "If you take an apple from the table you (1) reach forth the hand to it, (2) you close your fingers on it, (3) you nighen or bring back your hand with it.",
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"To bring near; appropriate."
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"(transitive) To bring near; appropriate."
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