Vocabulary : Nipperkin to Nirvana
Nipperkin : A small cup.
Nippers : Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting. ;; A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for catching a sheet and conveying it to the form. ;; A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger.
Nipping : of Nip ;; Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
Nippingly : In a nipping manner.
Nippitate : Peculiary strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor.
Nippitato : Strong liquor.
Nipple : The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap. ;; The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. ;; Any small projection or article 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. ;; A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
Nipplewort : A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress.
Nipt : of Nip
Nirvana : In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
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