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Forceps :: Forceps (n.) A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies which it would be inconvenient or impracticable to seize with the fingers, especially one for delicate operations, as those of watchmakers, surgeons, accoucheurs, dentists, etc..

Chill :: Chill (n.) A sensation of cold with convulsive shaking of the body, pinched face, pale skin, and blue lips, caused by undue cooling of the body or by nervous excitement, or forming the precursor of some constitutional disturbance, as of a fever..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. i.) To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches..

Nip :: 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..

Pliers :: Pliers (n. pl.) A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc..

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.

Necessitous :: Necessitous (a.) Narrow; destitute; pinching; pinched; as, necessitous circumstances..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains..

Bepinch :: Bepinch (v. t.) To pinch, or mark with pinches..

Mullet :: Mullet (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

Pinchcock :: Pinchcock (n.) A clamp on a flexible pipe to regulate the flow of a fluid through the pipe.

Chelicera :: Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.

Teetee :: Teetee (n.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel..

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

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