nip Copy link Outline I. To pinch, twingeII. To destroy the end of anything; esp. of the action of frostIII. To nip off • nip: I. To pinch, twinge: perh. vellĭco, 1 (to twitch, fillip): Quint. 6, 1, 41. (More precisely, *extremis digitis comprimo: v. to squeeze, press.) II. To destroy the end of anything; esp. of the action of frost: ūro, ussi, ustum, 3; with comps. praeuro, aduro, amburo: to be n.'d (pinched with cold) on the mountains, in montibus uri, Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40: for other comps., v. frost-bitten. Phr.: n. the thing in the bud, principiis obsta! Ov. R. Am. 91: cf. Cic. R. Am. 13, 36, perniciosam ... potentiam primo quoque tempore extinguere atque opprimere (to take the very first opportunity of destroying it). III. To nip off: ampŭto, praecīdo, etc.: v. to cut off.
NIP Copy link • NIPvellicare (Quint.); comprimere digitis aliquid. To nip with cold, urere: to nip anything in the bud, figuratively, primo tempore opprimere et exstinguere aliquid (Cic.).