 | Francis Kildale Robinson - English Language -- Dialect -- Yorkshire - 1855 - 240 pages
...street-door knocker, more generally termed the rapper. See To Knack. To KNARL, to knot or entangle. To KNEP or KNIPE, to crop with the teeth and lips,...be knodden when indented with the fingers. KNOLL'D FOR. " We are just going to get him knoll'd for," the passing bell tolled for him who is just dead.... | |
 | John Harland - English language - 1873 - 696 pages
...u пор' left']. Also nepping [nop-in]. Sco Nip. Nep [пер-] ; or Ñipe Гпа'ур-1, т. а. " To crop with the teeth and lips, as sick cattle which pick a little hay from the hand.'' Wk. 61.; gen. Also freely used of persons, as those who, in illness, do little more than taste their... | |
 | C Clough Robinson - 1876 - 96 pages
...loft' [Dhur' iz'u'nt u nep' left']. Also nepping [nep'in]. See Nip. Nep [nep'l; or Ñipe [ua'yp'], va "To crop with the teeth and lips, as sick cattle which pick a little hay from the hand." Wh. G1. ; gen. Also freely used of persons, as those who, in illness, do little more than taste their... | |
 | Granville William Gresham Leveson Gower - English language - 1876 - 488 pages
...' [i>hur iz'u'nt u nop' left1]. Also Hepping [nop -in]. See Nip. Nep [nep-] ; or Nipe fna'yp'l va " To crop with the teeth and lips, as sick cattle which pick a little hay from the hand." Wh. Gl.; gen. Also freely used of persons, as those who, in illness, do little more than taste their... | |
 | C. Clough Robinson - English language - 1877 - 422 pages
...left' [Dhur iz'u'nt u nep' left']. Also nepping [nep-in]. See Nip. Nep [nep'l ; or Nipe [na'yp'l va " To crop with the teeth and lips, as sick cattle which pick a little hay from the hand." Wh. GL; gen. Also freely used of persons, as those who, in illness, do little more than taste their... | |
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Wh. Gl.; gen. Also freely used of persons, as those who, in illness, do little more than taste their food. The first form is employed sulstantively in each case. See Nip. Neps [neps-J, a kind of shears employed in ' lookin, 