Index of English words, starting with "ni"

(1) - Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

(1) - Nip (n.) A short turn in a rope.
(2) - Nip (n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
(3) - Nip (n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
(4) - Nip (n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
(5) - Nip (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
(6) - Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
(7) - Nip (v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
(8) - Nip (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
(9) - Nip (v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
(10) - Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
(11) - Nip (n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

(1) - Nipper (n.) A European crab (Polybius Henslowii).
(2) - Nipper (n.) The cunner.
(3) - Nipper (n.) A pickpocket; a young or petty thief.
(4) - Nipper (n.) A satirist.
(5) - Nipper (n.) A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
(6) - Nipper (n.) One who, or that which, nips.

(1) - Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind.
(2) - Nipping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nip