"Nippers" is a word in ENGLISH
A number of rope-yarns wound together, used to secure
a cable to the messenger.
A device with fingers or jaws for seizing an object
and holding or conveying it; as, in a printing press, a clasp for
catching a sheet and conveying it to the form.
Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded waitress in her early twenties, dressed in a pink uniform with her hair tied up on her freckled neck. She was obviously tired, but she was polite and smiled at me when she took my order, and I felt a sense of guilt, almost shame, at my susceptibility and easy fondness for a young woman's smile. Because if you're forty-nine and unmarried or a widower or if you've simply chosen to live alone, you're easily flattered by a young woman's seeming attention to you, and you forget that it is often simply a deference to your age.
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How did Gertie Gorilla win the beauty contest?She was the beast of the show!
Fr. (L. Latin: habendum et tenendum.) To have and to hold
Read the complete definitionabá - (B) The back, shoulder-blades, scapula; the breast of a bird, especially of a fowl; to carry on the …
Read the complete definitionA board, tray, or table, divided into perforated compartments, for holding cups, bottles, or the like; a kind of cupboard, …
Read the complete definitionábat v [A2S; b6] hold on to s.t. fixed to support oneself. Ang tigúwang miábat sa pasamánu paingun sa táas, …
Read the complete definitionThe feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
Read the complete definitionabrasíti v [C2; c2] promenade arm in arm or side by side. Nakit-an kung ímung bánang may giabrasíting (giabrasitíhang) babáyi, …
Read the complete definitionTo hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; …
Read the complete definitionThe act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
Read the complete definitionOne holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.
Read the complete definitionAn institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, …
Read the complete definitionTo value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Read the complete definitionTo take assises; to take or hold the assises. Bract, fol. 110a; 3 Bl. Comm. 185. Ad asstsam capiendam; to …
Read the complete definitionTo hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity of faith, principle, or opinion; …
Read the complete definitionTo regard or hold; to judge; to deem.
Read the complete definitionA writ directed to a coroner commanding him to hold a second inquest. See 45 Law J. Q-B. 711
Read the complete definitionIn old English law. To annul;, to make void; to reduce to noth* ing; to treat as nothiug; to hold …
Read the complete definitionFor a term which has passed, words In the Latin form of the writ of entry employed at common law …
Read the complete definitionagám-agám - Dim. and Freq. of agám. Also: to take a firm hold of, do (handle, manage) well (carefully).
Read the complete definitionagóng - A trickster, sneak, cheat, thief in a small way; to trick, cheat, deceive, obtain under some plausible pretext. …
Read the complete definitionagúd - That, in order that, so that; agúd índì or agúd dílì—lest, in order that not. Magtoón kamó, agúd …
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