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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NESS, a termination of appellatives, denotes state or quality, as in goodness, greatness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a strip of land projecting into a body of water [syn: cape, ness]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English nasse, from Old English næss; akin to Old English nasu nose — more at nose Date: before 12th century cape, promontory

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a headland or promontory. Etymology: OE næs, rel. to OE nasu NOSE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ness Ness, n. [AS. n[ae]s, ns; akin to Icel. nes, Sw. n["a]s, Dan. n[ae]s, and E. nose. [root] 261. See Nose.] A promontory; a cape; a headland. --Hakluyt. Note: Ness is frequently used as a suffix in the names of places and promontories; as, Sheerness.