Definitions for the word "neuter" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a.
Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a.
Intransitive; as, a neuter verb.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a.
Having no generative organs, or imperfectly developed ones; sexless. See Neuter, n., 3.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found in neuter words.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
An intransitive verb.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. adj.
1 neither masculine nor feminine. 2 (of a plant) having neither pistils nor stamen. 3 (of an insect) sexually undeveloped. n. 1 neuter gender or word. 2 a non-fertile insect, esp. A worker bee or ant. B castrated animal. v. Castrate or spay. [latin]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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