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Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip..

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

Nip :: Nip (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

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

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

Nipping :: Nipping (a.) Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; a nipping wind..

Pinching :: Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony..

Pinchingly :: Pinchingly (adv.) In a pinching way.

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..

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

Pinching :: Pinching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pinc.

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

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