Vocabulary : Ninut to Nipper

Ninut : The magpie.
Niobate : Same as Columbate.
Niobe : The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.
Niobic : Same as Columbic.
Niobite : Same as Columbite.

Niobium : A later name of columbium. See Columbium.
Niopo : A kind of snuff prepared by the natives of Venezuela from the roasted seeds of a leguminous tree (Piptadenia peregrina), thence called niopo tree.
Nip : A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram. ;; To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. ;; To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. ;; Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. ;; To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. ;; A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice. ;; A pinch with the nails or teeth. ;; A small cut, or a cutting off the end. ;; A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. ;; A biting sarcasm; a taunt. ;; A short turn in a rope.
Nipped : of Nip
Nipper : One who, or that which, nips. ;; A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. ;; A satirist. ;; A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. ;; The cunner. ;; A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).

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