Nip"pers (?), n. pl. [From 2d Nip.] 1. Small pinchers for holding,
breaking, or cutting.
2. (Mach.) 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.
3. (Naut.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a
cable to the messenger.
Nip"ping (?), a. Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping
frost; a nipping wind.
Nip"ping*ly, adv. In a nipping manner.
Nip"pi*tate (?), a. [Cf. 1st Nip.] Peculiary strong and good; -- said
of ale or liquor. [Old Cant]
'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate.
Chapman.
Nip`pi*ta"to (?), n. Strong liquor. [Old Cant] Beau. & Fl.
Nip"ple (?), n. [Formerly neble, a dim. of neb. See Neb, Nib.] 1.
(Anat.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or
mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag,
is discharged. [R.] Derham.
3. 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.
4. (Mech.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually
provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other
fittings.
Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is
tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by
soldering.
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Nip"ple*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana
communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of
women; -- called also dock-cress.
||Nir*va"na (?), n. [Skr. nirva.] In the Buddhist system of religion,
||the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and
||consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of worldly
||existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See
||Buddhism.
Nis (?). [From ne is.] Is not. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Ni"san (?), n. [Heb. nsn.] The first month of the Jewish
||ecclesiastical year, formerly answering nearly to the month of April,
||now to March, of the Christian calendar. See Abib.