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Nip
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
(2):
(n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
(3):
(n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
(4):
(v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
(5):
(n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(6):
(n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
(7):
(n.) A short turn in a rope.
(8):
(v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
(9):
(v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
(10):
(n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
(11):
(n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Nip'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/n/nip.html. 1828.
