These are the meanings of the letters NIPIC when you unscramble them.
- Nip (n.)
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- Nip (n.)
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Nip (n.)
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- Nip (n.)
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
- Nip (n.)
A short turn in a rope.
- Nip (n.)
A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
- Nip (n.)
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- Nip (v. t.)
Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- 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.
- Nip (v. t.)
To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- Nip (v. t.)
To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
- Pic (n.)
A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.
- Pin (n.)
A clothespin.
- Pin (n.)
A linchpin.
- Pin (n.)
A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
- Pin (n.)
A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
- Pin (n.)
A rolling-pin.
- Pin (n.)
A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
- Pin (n.)
An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
- Pin (n.)
Caligo. See Caligo.
- Pin (n.)
Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
- Pin (n.)
Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
- Pin (n.)
Mood; humor.
- Pin (n.)
One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
- Pin (n.)
That which resembles a pin in its form or use
- Pin (n.)
The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
- Pin (n.)
The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
- Pin (n.)
The tenon of a dovetail joint.
- Pin (n.)
To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.
- Pin (v. t.)
To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
- Pin (v. t.)
To peen.