ne'er

• POS: Adverb

CIDE DICTIONARY

ne'er, adv. 

 a contraction of Never.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ne'er, adv. poet. = NEVER.

Idiom

ne'er-do-well n. a good-for-nothing person.
--adj. good-for-nothing.

Etymology

ME contr. of NEVER

ROGET THESAURUS

ne'er

Neverness

N neverness, absence of time, no time, dies non, Tib's eve, Greek Kalends, a blue moon, never, ne'er, at no time, at no period, on the second Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over, on no occasion, never in all one's born days, nevermore, sine die, in no degree.