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Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers. Howell.

Some kind of stinging or biting insect, as a flea, a gnat, a sandly, or the like. Ex. viii. 17 (Douay version).

A sandpiper, as the knot and dunlin.

To cut off the nip or neb of, or to cut off at once with shears or scissors; to clip off suddenly; to nip; hence, to break off; to snatch away. Curbed and snipped in my younger years by fear of my parents from those vicious excrescences to which that age was subject. Fuller. The captain seldom ordered anything out of t…

A tart dialogue with quick replies. [R.] Pope.

A fool; a blockhead. [R.] Shak. Half snipe, the dunlin; the jacksnipe. -- Jack snipe. See Jacksnipe. -- Quail snipe. See under Quail. -- Robin snipe, the knot. -- Sea snipe. See in the Vocabulary. -- Shore snipe, any sandpiper. -- Snipe hawk, the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] -- Stone snipe, the tattler. -- Summer…

A plane for cutting deep grooves in moldings.

The bellows fish.

The common snipe. [Prov. Eng.]

One who snips.

A small, insignificant fellow. [Colloq.]

A small part or piece. To be cut into snippets and shreds. F. Harrison.

Ridiculously small; petty. "Snippety facts." London Spectator.

Like a snipe.

A person in a state of somniapathy.

Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [Written also somnopathy.]

A dumb gymnastic apparatus for training the hands of pianists and organists, as to a legato touch.

mpestris, var. Napus); also, the plant itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. -- Turnip flea (Zoöl.), a small flea-beetle (Haltica, or Phyllotreta, striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on ea…

veral large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, somewhat turnip-shaped.

A woman who has borne one child.