Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.

2. (v. t.) To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.

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

4. (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.

5. (v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.

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

7. (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.

8. (n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.

9. (n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.

10. (n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

11. (n.) A short turn in a rope.