Definition of pinch

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Pinch (n.) As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff..

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Tweezers :: Tweezers (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes..
Crimp :: Crimp (v. t.) To pinch and hold; to seize.
Pinchbeck :: Pinchbeck (a.) Made of pinchbeck; sham; cheap; spurious; unreal.
Pinch :: Pinch (n.) A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip..
Pinchem :: Pinchem (n.) The European blue titmouse.
Gripe :: Gripe (v. t.) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the bowels of, as by the effects of certain purgative or indigestible substances..
Bepinched :: Bepinched (imp. & p. p.) of Bepinc.
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. t.) To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4..
Pinching :: Pinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinc.
Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies..
Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..
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..
Ahungered :: Ahungered (a.) Pinched with hunger; very hungry.
Clam :: Clam (v. t.) Strong pinchers or forceps.
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..
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..
Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.
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