n. 1. One who, or that which, nips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A satirist. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. [ Old Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) (a) The cunner. (b) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See 1st Nip. ] A small cup. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ From 2d Nip. ] 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure a cable to the messenger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a nipping manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. 1st Nip. ] Peculiarly strong and good; -- said of ale or liquor. [ Old Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Strong liquor. [ Old Cant ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. [ R. ] Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A yellow-flowered composite herb (Lampsana communis), formerly used as an external application to the nipples of women; -- called also dock-cress. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Japanese nippon, Japan. ] a native or inhabitant of Japan.
Syn. -- Japanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]