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Word Meanings - NIPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.

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  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • NIPPITATO
    Strong liquor. Beau. & Fl.
  • EXPOSTULATOR
    One who expostulates. Lamb.
  • BLANKET STITCH
    A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • NIPPERKIN
    A small cup.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • BLANKET CLAUSE
    A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.
  • EXPOSTULATE
    To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
  • BLANKETING
    1. Cloth for blankets. 2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.
  • EXPOSE
    1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
  • NIPPER
    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 .
  • BLANKNESS
    The state of being blank.
  • BLANKET
    A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares.
  • BLEAK
    akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. blican to shine; akin to OHG. blichen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. to burn, shine, 1. Without color; pale; pallid. When she came
  • EXPOSITOR
    One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
  • NIPPLE
    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. Derham. 3. Any small projection or article in which there
  • NIPPERS
    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. (more info) 1. Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
  • EXPOSTULATION
    The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person in opposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest and kindly protest; dissuasion. We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.
  • EXPOSITORY
    Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
  • SNIPPACK
    The common snipe.
  • MISEXPOSITION
    Wrong exposition.
  • SNIPPER
    One who snips.
  • SNIPPER-SNAPER
    A small, insignificant fellow.

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