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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nip \Nip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nipped}, less properly {Nipt};
p. pr & vb n. {Nipping}.] [OE. nipen; cf D. niipen to
pinch, also knippen to nip, clip, pinch, snap, knijpen to
pinch, LG knipen G. kneipen kneifen to pinch, cut off
nip, Lith. knebti.]
1. To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two
surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed;
to pinch; to close 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.
2. To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting
edges of anything to clip.
The small shoots . . . must be nipped off
--Mortimer.
3. Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor
of to destroy.
4. To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence to taunt.
And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.
--Spenser.
{To nip in the bud}, to cut off at the verycommencement of
growth; to kill in the incipient stage.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nipping \Nip"ping\, a.
Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as a nipping frost;
a nipping wind.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
nipping
adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting
aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: {barbed}, {biting},
{pungent}]
2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and
frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day";
"snappy weather"; (`parky' is a British term) [syn: {crisp},
{frosty}, {nippy}, {snappy}, {parky}]
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