adj. (American).—Not one [ne’er a]. See NARROW, NARY RED = not a red cent. Also as an emphatic negative.

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  1848.  J. R. LOWELL, The Biglow Papers.

        It ’s a good way, though, come to think, coz ye enjy the sense
O’ lendin’ lib’rally to the Lord, an’ NARY red o’ ’xpense.

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  1850.  G. H. THROOP (‘Gregory Seaworthy’), Nag’s Head, xix., 162. They shan’t NARY drap on’t go in-TO him.

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  1857.  Philadelphia Bulletin, May. As regards the old cents, there will be NARY RED to be seen, except such as will be found in the cabinets of coin collectors.

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  1858.  New York Evening Post, 1 Sept. The Atlantic Cable and the White Mountains—both monuments of God’s power, but NARY one alike.

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