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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.

The colored ring around the nipple, or around a vesicle or pustule.

Nipplewort.

A teat, pap, or nipple; -- formerly that of a human mother, now that of a cow or other beast. With mother's dug between its lips. Shak.

A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

The nipple.

Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

A nipple; a mammilla; a teat. Dryden. The paps which thou hast sucked. Luke xi. 27.

Any minute nipplelike projection; as, the papillæ of the tongue.

The condition of having more than two teats, or nipples.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the udder or breast of a mammal; a nipple; a pap; a mammilla; a dug; a tit.

A little teat; a nipple. [Familiar]

were thought to be a cure for warts, as a kind of spurge (Euphorbia Helioscopia), and the nipplewort (Lampsana communis).