• 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.