Definition of "nighest" []

• Superlative form of nigh: most nigh. (adjective)

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• "They may be close-fisted, hard-headed, and sharp-tongued with each other when well and prosperous; but let poverty, wreck, illness, or death overtake one of their number, and the "nighest" of them at a bargain will open heart and purse with an astonishing generosity."
• "But it allus come out the nighest side-channel, an 'not bubblin' up an 'up.'"
• "So they ran thither and would lay hands on them, but they stood on their defence well and manly, and long he remembered it who was the nighest to them; but in the end they were borne down by many men and taken, and bonds were set upon them, and they were cast into fetters wherein they sit night long."