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(we prefume the inner) nearly blood-coloured ; ftamens 
orange, with red anther®. He defcribes the flowers as 
without fraell, the leaves and feed intenfely bitter. La¬ 
marck’s figure is diminifhed, except the fruit, which 
agrees with Rheede’s, and is as big as a moderate walnut. 
We have no doubt that both thefe authors defcribe the 
very fame fpecies, though in the Hortus Malabaricus, 
(vi. t. 18.) five petals are reprefented, with only as many 
ftamens. This new genus fhould be inferted near to Al- 
lophyllus in the Linnsean fyftem. 
NIO/TA NIO'DEM VAL'LI, f. in botany. See Ce- 
ROPEGIA. 
To NIP, v. a. [nijpen , Teut.] To pi.nch off with the 
nails; to bite with the teeth.—In oranges and lemons, 
th s nipping of their rind giveth out their fmell more. 
Bacon's Nat. Hift. —To cut oft’ by any flight means.—The 
fmall {hoots that extraft the fap of the moll leading 
branches, mull be nipt off. Mortimer. —Toblaft; to de- 
ftroy before full growth.—Had he not been nipped in the 
bud, he might have made a formidable figure in his own 
works among pofterity. Addijon. 
This is theftate of man : to-day he ptits forth 
The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow bloffoms. 
And bears his blufhing honours thick upon him; 
The third day comes a froft, a killing froft; 
And when he thinks, good eafy man, full furely 
His greatnefs is a-ripening, nips his root; 
And then he falls as I do. Shakefpeare's Hen. VIII. 
To pinch as froft.—It is a nipping and an eager air. 
Shakefpeare's Hamlet. 
When icicles hang by the wall, 
And Dick the fhepherd blows his nail; 
When blood is nipt, and ways be foul. 
Then nightly lings the flaring owl. Shahefpeare. 
To vex ; to bite : 
And fliarp remorfe his heart did prick and nip, 
That drops of blood thence like a well did play. Spenfer. 
To fatirife; to ridicule; to taunt farcaftically.—Quick 
wits commonly be in defire new-fangled ; in purpofe un- 
conflant; bold with any perfon ; bufy in every matter; 
foothing fuch as be prefent, nipping any that is abfent. 
Afcham's Schoolmafier. 
But the right gentle mind would bite his lip 
To hear the javel fo good men to nip. Spenj'. Hubb. Tale. 
NIP, f. A pinch with the nails or teeth.■—I am fharply 
taunted, yea, fometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs. 
Afc/tam. —A fmall cut: 
What! this a fleeve ? ’tis like a demi-cannon ; 
What! up and down carv’d like an apple-tart ? 
Here’s fnip, and nip, and cut, and llilh, and flafti, 
Like to a cenfer in a barber’s fliop. ShakeJ'peare. 
A blalt : 
So hafty fruits and too ambitious flowers, 
Scorning the midwifry of ripening fhow’rs, 
In l’pite of frolls, fpring from th’ unwilling earth, 
But find a nip untimely as their birth. Stepney. 
A taunt; a farcafm. 
NI'PA, f. [the Malay name.] In botany, a genus of 
the clafs monoecia, order monadelphia, natural order 
of palm®, or palms. Generic characters—I. Male flowers 
lateral, below the females on the fame plant. Calyx : 
fpathes oblong, concave, acuminate, coriaceous; outer 
larger, inner gradually inclofing; perianthium proper 
ndne. Corolla : petals fix, linear, equal, form fpreading 
reflex. Stamina: filaments one, filiform, ereCt, the length 
ofthe petals; anther® at the top of the filament perforated, 
twelve-grooved, oblong. II. Females terminating. Ca¬ 
lyx : fpathes as in the male. Corolla: none. Piltillum : 
germen angular (often five-angled), obliquely truncate, 
fmooth; flyle and ftigma none; but in their ftead a 
groove on each fide. Pericarpium: drupes very many, 
N I P 
aggregate in a head the fize of the human head, angu¬ 
lar ; angles unequal, acute, or blunt, attenuated below, 
blunted above and fmooth. —Effential Char after. Male 
fpathe. Corolla fix-petalled. Female fpatlie. Corolla 
none; drupes angular. 
Nipa fruticans, a folitary fpecies. Trunk in the young 
palm none, but of fome feet in height in an adult ftate. 
Leaves pinnate; pinnas ftriated, margined, acuminate, 
fmooth. Flowers male and female on the fame palm; 
but diftinft on different peduncles. Males feveral, late¬ 
ral, inferior, on dichotomous peduncles, in fpilces. Fe¬ 
males terminating, aggregate, in a globular head, feflile. 
Peduncles and pedicels panicled, dichotomous. Native 
of Java and other iflands in the Eaft Indies ; where the 
leaves are ufed for covering houfes and making mats. 
The fruit is eaten both raw and preferved. Firlt deferibed 
by Thunberg in the Aft. Stockh. 1782. 
NEPAL. See Nefaul, vol. xvi. 
NIPASHEE', a lake of North America. Lat. 62. 10. N. 
Ion. 101. W. 
NIP'EGON, a large river ofNorth America, which run£" 
into Lake Superior. 
NI'PES, a town on the north-weft coaft of Hifpaniola ; 
twenty-five miles weft of Petite Goave. 
NIPHA'TES, a mountain of Afia, which divides Ar¬ 
menia from Aflyria, and from which the Tigris takes its 
rife.—Alfo, a river of Armenia, falling into the Tigris. 
NI'PHON, or Hiphon, the principal ifland of Japan, 
in the North Pacific Ocean. Its form is very irregular, 
not unlike that of a jaw-bone, with a vaft number of 
windings, fo that it is not eafy to afeertain its true cir¬ 
cumference; only it is computed to be 1500 miles atleaft. 
Its length from eaft to weft is about 660 miles, and breadth 
from north to fouth, where broadeft, about 400 ; but in 
other parts only between 150 and 200. It was divided, in 
the times of the dab-os, into fifty-three or fifty-five king¬ 
doms, all tributary to them ; but, fince the cubos deprived 
thefe monarchs of their fecular power, thofe divifions 
have not only undergone very great changes, but have 
fince been in a ftate of continual fluftuation. Each of 
thefe hath its capital, befides a number of other confi- 
derable towns. The five principal cities in this ifland are 
Meaco, Jeddo, Ofacca, Surunga, and Saccai. Lat. 33. 45. 
to 40. N. Ion. 130. to 140. E. 
NIP'ISIGHIT BA'Y, a name given to the fouthern 
projection of Chaleur-bay ; and a river of this name 
falls into it from the fouth-weft, by a broad bay-like 
mouth. 
NIP'ISSING, a lake of Upper Canada. Lat. 46.12. N. 
Ion. 10. 30. W. 
NIP'PER,yi A fatirift. Oat of life .—Ready backbiters, 
fore nippers, and fpiteful reporters privily of good men. 
Afchain. 
Nippers, in the manege, are four teeth in the fore¬ 
part of a horfe’s mouth, two in the upper and two in the 
lower jaw: a horfe puts them forth between the fecond 
and third year. Alfo an inllrument in ufe among fmiths 
and farriers, being a kind of pincers, wherewith, in fhoe- 
ing a horfe, they cut the nails before they rivet them. 
It is alfo ufed in taking off a flioe. 
NIP'PERKIN, f. [nappo, Ital. a cup.] A little cup 5 a 
fmall tankard. Lye. 
NIP'PINGLY, ado. With bitter farcafm. 
NIP'PLE, J'. [nypele, Sax.] The teat; the dug; that 
which the fucking young take into their mouths.—In 
creatures, that nourifh their young with milk, are adapted 
the nipples of the breaft to the mouth and organs of luc- 
tion. liay on the Creation. 
The babe that milks me, 
I would, while it was ftniling in my face. 
Have pluckt my nipple from his bonelefs gums. Shakefp. 
It is ufed by Chapman of a man : 
As his foe went then fuffis’d away, 
Thoas Aitolius threw a dart, that did his pile convey 
Above his nipple, through his lungs. Chapman. 
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