a sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.-to catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.-to remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.-hence: to blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.-to vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.-a seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.-a pinch with the nails or teeth.-a small cut, or a cutting off the end.-a blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.-a biting sarcasm; a taunt.-a short turn in a rope.