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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

naes

; akin to Icel.

nes

, Sw.

näs

, Dan.

naes

, and E.

nose

. √ 261. See

A promontory; a cape; a headland.

Hakluyt.

☞ Ness is frequently used as a suffix in the names of places and promontories; as, Sheerness.

, a termination of appellatives, denotes state or quality, as in goodness, greatness.