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Nib n.

A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong. "The little nib or fructifying principle."

(Zool.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.

The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.

One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, (Prov. Eng.), The shaft of a wagon.

pl. See his nibs, below.

his nibs Someone who gives a command or makes a demand, often one who acts in a self-important manner, sometimes one with authority; used mockingly as a jocose term, as if a title of honor, but not usually in the presence of the person referred to, and usually indicating resentment or contempt. (Colloq.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nib" Quotes from Famous Books

... belonging to the hotel, then a few paper-weights covering memoranda jotted down on little square pieces of paper, about three inches long either way, together with an old yellowish newspaper which did duty as a blotting pad; and a pen with a 'j' nib and a very heavy ivory handle, so heavy, indeed, that though the master often offered it to me I could never write with it. With this pen, however, he himself did all his work. That work he generally cleared away before lunch, and locked up in his bedroom wardrobe, so that by the time ...

— With Zola in England • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... methods and courses of action that result in world-wide good or evil. Seeds carried by the winds and waves plant forests and beautify the waste places of the earth. Truths that flowed from the silent nib of my pen in Vermont, had been garnered in a boy's sympathies to yield me a man's welcome and aid in St. Louis. How clear the lesson, that for seed-sowing, all seasons belong ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

Words linked to "Nib" : bird, mouth, bill, pen nib, pecker