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e in upon. May this hard earth cleave to the Nadir hell, Down, down, and close again, and nip me flat, If I be such a traitress. Tennyson.

One who, or that which, nips.

A small cup. [Obs.]

Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

In a nipping manner.

ry strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor. [Old Cant] 'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate. Chapman.

Strong liquor. [Old Cant] Beau. & Fl.

icle 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.

wered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.

Producing albumin.

A group of wingless insects, of which the flea in the type. See Flea.

Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera.

A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

A coarse umbelliferous weed of the genus Heracleum (H. sphondylium in England, and H. lanatum in America).

A large mosquito.

Any tree or shrub of the genus Genipa.

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

A small poster, suitable for a curbstone.