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Nip
·noun A short turn in a rope. II. Nip ·noun A biting sarcasm; a taunt. III. Nip ·noun A pinch with...

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nip
1) A cheat. Bung nipper; a cutpurse. 2) A half pint, a nip of ale: whence the nipperkin, a small ve...

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to nip
To pinch close in domestic management.--Forby's Norfolk Glossary. Mrs. H---- carded, spun, colored,...

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nip
A short turn in a rope. Also, a fishing term for a bite. In Arctic parlance, a nip is when two floes...

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Cheese
·noun A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in the form of a cheese. II. Cheese ·nou...

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Cheese
(A.S. cese). This word occurs three times in the Authorized Version as the translation of three diff...

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cheese
A circle of wads covered with painted canvas. ...

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Cheese
is mentioned only three times in the Bible, and on each occasion under a different name in the Hebre...

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Brie cheese
·add. ·- A kind of soft French cream cheese; — so called from the district in France where it is ma...

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Camembert cheese
·add. ·- A kind of soft, unpressed cream cheese made in the vicinity of Camembert, near Argentan, Fr...

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Cheese cloth
·add. ·- A thin, loosewoven cotton cloth, such as is used in pressing cheese curds. ...

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Edam cheese
·add. ·- A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or fou...

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Filled cheese
·add. ·- An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarin...

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Gruyere cheese
·- A kind of cheese made at Gruyere, Switzerland. It is a firm cheese containing numerous cells, and...

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Head-cheese
·noun A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pr...

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Limburg cheese
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Limburger cheese. ...

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Limburger cheese
·add. ·- A soft cheese made in the Belgian province of Limburg (Limbourg), and usually not eaten unt...

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Roquefort cheese
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Roquefort>>. ...

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Slipcoat cheese
·- A rich variety of new cheese, resembling butter, but white. ...

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Stilton cheese
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Stilton>>. ...

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cheese-toaster
A sword. ...

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cheese it
Be silent, be quiet, don't do it. Cheese it, the coves are fly; be silent, the people understand our...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
cheese toaster
A sword. ...

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head-cheese
The ears and feet of swine cut up fine, and, after being boiled, pressed into the form of a cheese. ...

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buckey-cheese
a sweet, rank cheese. Hamp. Perhaps from a rank, goatish taste ; BONC, in French, signifying a he-go...

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gehezie cheese
very poor cheese, from which most of the cream has been taken away. Ess. and Suff. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
freshen the nip, to
To veer a small portion of cable through the hawse-hole, or heave a little in, in order to let anoth...

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