anent
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] [FULL LIST]
anent preposition Close to, near, beside. [ultimately < Old English on efen; OED3 anent prep 7 archaic or dialect, now literary but old-fashioned]
1895 Edson and Fairchild TN Mts 370 It was anent two houses. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) I fell back into the river and just took up right up in the water and was wet all over and got up anent them. 1974 Fink Bits Mt Speech 1 = close to or by. “His house stood anent the church house.”