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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• nip:
    1. I. To pinch, twinge: perh. vellĭco, 1 (to twitch, fillip): Quint. 6, 1, 41. (More precisely, *extremis digitis comprimo: v. to squeeze, press.)
    2. 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).
    3. III. To nip off: ampŭto, praecīdo, etc.: v. to cut off.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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vellicare (Quint.); comprimere digitis aliquid. To nip with cold, urere: to nip anything in the bud, figuratively, primo tempore opprimere et exstinguere aliquid (Cic.).