Ne (nē), adv. [AS. ne. See No.] Not; never.
He never yet no villany ne said. Chaucer.
☞ Ne was formerly used as the universal adverb of negation, and survives in certain compounds, as never (= ne ever) and none (= ne one). Other combinations, now obsolete, will be found in the Vocabulary, as nad, nam, nil. See Negative, 2.