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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. The small shoots ... must be nipped off. Mortimer.

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

ws; the nose of a teakettle. Nose bit (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. -- Nose hammer (Mach.), a frontal hammer. -- Nose hole (Glass Making), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the f…

The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.

The act of lopping or cutting off. [R.] Cockeram.

Cutting of the teeth; dentition.

The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with a cutting instrument. [Written also onkotomy.] Dunglison.

The operation of cutting out or removing a testicle by the knife; castration.

Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circle which cuts three given circles at right angles.

The property of cutting at right angles.

The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.

tplate for a breast drill. Palette knife, a knife with a very flexible steel blade and no cutting edge, rounded at the end, used by painters to mix colors on the grinding slab or palette. -- To set the palette (Paint.), to lay upon it the required pigments in a certain order, according to the intended use of them in a…

theft by accomplices of the inmates. -- Panel saw, handsaw with fine teeth, -- used for cutting out panels, etc. -- Panel thief, one who robs in a panel house.

The material upon which the ancient Egyptians wrote. It was formed by cutting the stem of the plant into thin longitudinal slices, which were gummed together and pressed.

The act of cutting off the surface or extremites of anything.

arate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

Anything cut or formed to serve as a guide to cutting or forming objects; as, a dressmaker's pattern.

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piece of sugar; to break in pieces. Bring it out piece by piece. Ezek. xxiv. 6.

To disable by cutting off the pinion joint. Johnson.