• | A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram. |
• | To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. |
• | To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. |
• | Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. |
• | To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. |
• | A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. |
• | A pinch with the nails or teeth. |
• | A small cut, or a cutting off the end. |
• | A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. |
• | A biting sarcasm; a taunt. |
• | A short turn in a rope. |
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