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near adverb Nearly.

1815-18 (in 1881 Draper Kings Mt 553) There were not near so many of the enemy wounded as were of the Whigs. 1863 Edmonston/Kelly CW Letters I have very near for gotten all I new Since I came to this place. 1910 Cooke Power and Glory 80 I'm not as near lost on it as I am at a loom, down in the factory. 1939 Hall Coll (Mt Sterling NC) He was near a mile away from the little boy at this time. He went somethin’ near a mile back on into the Spruce Mountains. 1975 AOHP/ALC-930 They wasn’t near as many children as there are now. 2002 Rash Foot in Eden 64 I’d near killed a young one once.