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A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating
liquor; a dram. |
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To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two
surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to
close in upon. |
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To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting
edges of anything; to clip. |
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Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor
of; to destroy. |
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To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt. |
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A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern
seas, the nip of masses of ice. |
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A pinch with the nails or teeth. |
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A small cut, or a cutting off the end. |
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A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost. |
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A biting sarcasm; a taunt. |
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A short turn in a rope. |