naeve

• næve (obsolete)

Latin naevus.

naeve (plural naeves)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”).
   • 1649, John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Lord Hastings:

     Was there no milder way but the smallpox; The very filthiness of Pandora's box? So many spots, like næves, our Venus soil?

• “næve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Neave, veena

naeve

1. vocative singular of naevus