niopo

[Brazilian name.) (See etym. and compound.) niopo-tree, s. Bot.: Piptadenia peregrin a . A kind of snuff is made in Brazil from its powdered seed-ve els. nip, *nip-pen, *nyp-pen, v . t . [For knip ; cogn. with Dut. knijpen to pinch; knippen to crack, to snap, to entrap; Dan. knibe =to pinch, to nip; Sw. knipa =to pinch, to squeeze; Ger. kneifen to pinch, to nip; kneipen to pinch, to twitch.) [KNIFE.] IMG:content-0062.png:[blocks in formation] II. Figuratively : 1. To bite, to vex, to annoy. "Sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip ." Spenser. (Todd.) 2. To check the growth of, as by frost; to blast. "A killing frost nips his root, And then he falls, as I do." Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iii. 2. 3. To destroy; to check the growth or spread of. " Nip sin when it begins to bud in the thoughts."_ South: Sermons , vol. vi., ser. 4. 4. To benumb, to chill, to bite; as, The cold nips IMG:content-0063.png:[blocks in formation] "I am sharply taunted, yea, sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs."- Ascham : Schoolmaster. (2) A cutting, biting, or pinching off; a cut. "Here's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3. 2. Figuratively: (1) A blasting or nipping, as by frost; a check of the growth or development by frost. "So hasty fruits and too ambitious flow'rs. But find a nip untimely as their birth."-Stepney. *(2) A biting sarcasm; a taunt. "He addeth a pretty clause, and giveth them a good privie privie nippe , saying, And ble ed is he that is not offended by me."-Latimer: Third Sermon in Advent. (3) A thief. (Slang.) II. Technically: 1. Mining: The gradual approach of the strata above and below a seam and terminating it. 2. Nautical: (1) A short turn in a rope. (2) The part of a rope at the place bound by a seizing or caught by jamming. nip (2), subst. [Dut. & Low Ger. nippen ; Dan. nippe; Ger. nippen to sip.] A sip; a small draught or drink, especially of spirituous liquor; a dram. "Young Eyre took a nip of whiskey."- Black : Prince of Thule, ch. xxiii. fate, făt, färe, 2848