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▪ I. nipping, vbl. n.1|ˈnɪpɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of nip v.1 in various senses.
1572Huloet, Nippes or nippinges, compressiones. 1606Proc. agst. Late Traitors 25 For the blasting and nipping, both of the leaves, blossomes and buddes. 1626Bacon Sylva §388 In Orenges or Limons, the Nipping of their Rinde, giveth out their Smell the more. 1693Evelyn De la Quint. Compl. Gard. II. 54 Pruning..with the Pruning-Knife, when the bare Trimming or Nipping is not sufficient. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 42 It..preserves it self the best from the nipping of Deer. 1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xxviii. (1856) 231 Wherever the nipping has caught two of the floes, they have been driven with a force inconceivable one above the other.
b. concr. A portion nipped off.
1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Rag 6 I 1/2 Woollen Rags, and the nippings of the pitch-marks upon sheep, are a singularly good manure.
▪ II. ˈnipping, vbl. n.2
[f. nip v.2 + -ing1.]
The action or practice of taking nips of liquor.
1883Longm. Mag. June 180 A horrible Australian habit,..is the practice of ‘nipping’ on bargains. 1896G. M. Stisted True Life R. F. Burton xi. 267 This nipping..disagreed frightfully with Burton.
▪ III. ˈnipping, ppl. a. (and adv.)
[f. nip v.1 + -ing2.]
That nips, in various senses of the verb.
1. Of language: Sharp, stinging, sarcastic.
1547Latimer Serm. & Rem. (Parker Soc.) 426 After you had perused that my nipping and unpleasant letter. 1556Robinson tr. More's Utopia (Arb.) 105 marg., In this place seemethe to be a nipping taunte. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 497 So much rayling in such scorpionlike nipping bitternesse. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xv. (1596) 311 Hence tooke a certaine nipping prouerbe his originall. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. x. 80 Nipping Bobs, derisive Quips.
2. Of the weather, wind, etc.: Sharp, cold, biting; checking growth, blighting.
1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 103 To keepe her feete from force of nyppynge colde. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. (1887) 141 As there be faire blossomes, so there be nipping frostes. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. iv. 2 It is a nipping and an eager ayre. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1679) 134 The sharp nipping winds. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 308 Bleak Hills much exposed to high Winds and nipping Frost. 1764Harmer Observ. i. §xvi. 40 Most nipping, pinching, unpleasant wind. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xiii, It irks me the more to put on cold harness in this nipping weather. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xii, It was..a nipping spring with an easterly wind.
3. Causing pain or distress.
c1550Pryde & Abuse Wom. 181 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 242 We wonder moche at these nyppynge plages. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 52 They applie bitter potions, nipping medicines, gnawing corrosiues. 1608Willet Hexapla in Exod. 512 A biting, nipping, or deuouring vsurie. 1659D. Pell in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cvii. 28 Brought low by pinching and nipping afflictions.
†4. Affected, mincing. Obs. rare—1.
1568Jacob & Esau ii. ii, So nipping, so tripping, so cocking, so crowing.
5. That nips, grips, or holds. nipping-fork (see quot. 1881), nipping-roller.
1831Youatt Horse 138 The colt's nipping teeth are rounded in front. 1858Holden & Hubner in Pat. Abridgm. (1866) 1290 Two pairs of continuously operating and moving nipping surfaces. 1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. xxxvii. (1875) 269 The maxillary palpi..are converted into nipping-claws or chelæ. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Nipping-fork, a tool for supporting a column of bore-rods while raising or lowering them. 1920Discovery Mar. 88/1 The padded goods are well squeezed through nipping-rollers, and then dried and ‘backed’. 1964Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Printing Terms (B.S.I.) 25 Nipping rollers, a pair of rollers adjustable to exert pressure to set a fold. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry vi. 382/2 The cutting cylinder cuts the web after it passes the nipping rollers.
6. adv. Nippingly.
1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxix. 99 The water was nipping cold. |