Word Meanings - NIPPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, nips. 2. A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number. 3. A satirist. Ascham. 4. A pickpocket; a young or petty thief. The cunner. A European crab .

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• TOOTHBRUSH
  A brush for cleaning the teeth.
• HORSE-LEECHERY
  The business of a farrier; especially, the art of curing the diseases of horses.
• NUMBERFUL
  Numerous.
• TOOTH
  1. To furnish with teeth. The twin cards toothed with glittering wire. Wordsworth. 2. To indent; to jag; as, to tooth a saw. 3. To lock into each other. See Tooth, n., 4. Moxon.
• HORSEMAN
  A mounted soldier; a cavalryman. A land crab of the genus Ocypoda, living on the coast of Brazil and the West Indies, noted for running very swiftly. A West Indian fish of the genus Eques, as the light-horseman (E. lanceolatus). (more info) 1.
• SATIRIST
  One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire. The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread through the Whig ranks. Macaulay.
• HORSEKNOP
  Knapweed.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• HORSEFLESH
  1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on
• HORSEPLAY
  Rude, boisterous play. Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. Dryden.
• TOOTHSHELL
  Any species of Dentalium and allied genera having a tooth- shaped shell. See Dentalium.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TOOTHING
  Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in order that they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainder is carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formed into a series of small teeth, for the purpose of
• HORSE-JOCKEY
  1. A professional rider and trainer of race horses. 2. A trainer and dealer in horses.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• REAR-HORSE
  A mantis.
• SAWHORSE
  A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.
• UNTOOTH
  To take out the teeth of. Cowper.
• SEA HORSE
  1. A fabulous creature, half horse and half fish, represented in classic mythology as driven by sea dogs or ridden by the Nereids. It is also depicted in heraldry. See Hippocampus. The walrus. Any fish of the genus Hippocampus. Note: In a passage