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- English Word Nippers Definition A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
- English Word Nipping Definition of Nip
- English Word Nipping Definition Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
- English Word Nippingly Definition In a nipping manner.
- English Word Nippitate Definition Peculiary strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor.
- English Word Nippitato Definition Strong liquor.
- English Word Nipple Definition The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
- English Word Nipple Definition The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
- English Word Nipple Definition Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.
- English Word Nipple Definition A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
- English Word Nipplewort Definition A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.
- English Word Nipt Definition of Nip
- English Word Nirvana Definition In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
- English Word Nis Definition Is not.
- English Word Nisan Definition The first month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April, now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.
- English Word Nisey Definition A simpleton.
- English Word Nisi Definition Unless; if not.
- English Word Niste Definition Wist not; knew not.
- English Word Nisus Definition A striving; an effort; a conatus.
- English Word Nit Definition The egg of a louse or other small insect.