Sentence:  Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a <WSD>neighbour</WSD> by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh <WSD>neighbour</WSD>, did you not see what a wind there was the other day? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.