(n.) The loops which are cut to make the pile, in velvet.

(v. t.) To raise, or put, a nap on.

(v. i.) To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.

(v. i.) To be in a careless, secure state.

(n.) A short sleep; a doze; a siesta.

(n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth.

(n.) A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

(v. i.) To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

(v. t.) To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

(v. t.) To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

(n.) A quick, smart blow; a knock.

(v.) To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

(v.) To hasten.

(v.) To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

(v.) To exchange; to truck.

(n.) A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

(n.) A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

(a.) Formed with a surface closely corded, or ribbed transversely; -- applied to textile fabrics of silk or wool; as, rep silk.

(v. t.) To open; as, to dup the door.

(n.) A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and the like.

(n.) The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

(n.) Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in intoxicating drinks; revelry.

(n.) That which is to be received or indured; that which is allotted to one; a portion.

(n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.

(n.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used to produce the vacuum in cupping.

(v. t.) To supply with cups of wine.

(v. t.) To apply a cupping apparatus to; to subject to the operation of cupping. See Cupping.

(v. t.) To make concave or in the form of a cup; as, to cup the end of a screw.

(n.) A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.

(v. i.) To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.

(v. i.) To walk lame; to limp; to halt.

(v. i.) To dance.

(n.) A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

(n.) A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.

(n.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

(n.) The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

(n.) The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.

(v. t.) To impregnate with hops.

(v. i.) To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.

(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.

(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.

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

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

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

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

(n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.

(n.) A short turn in a rope.

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

(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.

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

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

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

(v. t.) To take out the entrails of (herrings).

(n.) A servant. See Gyp.

(n.) One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a coxcomb; an inferior dandy.

(n.) The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.

(n.) The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

(n.) In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.

(v. t.) To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side.

(v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).

(v. t.) To make with a hip or hips, as a roof.

(n.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina).

(interj.) Used to excite attention or as a signal; as, hip, hip, hurra!

(n.) Alt. of Hipps

(v. t.) To take into the mouth with the lips, as a liquid; to take or drink by a little at a time; to sip.

(n.) A small mouthful, as of liquor or broth; a little taken with the lips; a sip.

(v. i.) To eat the evening meal; to take supper.

(v. t.) To treat with supper.

(v. t. & i.) To butt, as a ram does.

(v. t. & i.) To cover; -- said of a ram.

(n.) A ram.

(n.) An abbreviation of hypochonaria; -- usually in plural.

(v. t.) To make melancholy.

(obs. strong imp.) of Leap. Leaped.

(n.) One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speech essential to certain articulations. Hence, by a figure they denote the mouth, or all the organs of speech, and sometimes speech itself.

(n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel.

(n.) The sharp cutting edge on the end of an auger.

(n.) One of the two opposite divisions of a labiate corolla.

(n.) The odd and peculiar petal in the Orchis family. See Orchidaceous.

(n.) One of the edges of the aperture of a univalve shell.

(v. t.) To touch with the lips; to put the lips to; hence, to kiss.

(v. t.) To utter; to speak.

(v. t.) To clip; to trim.

(v. i.) To bark; to yelp.

(n.) A bark; a yelp.