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Nipple  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
2.
The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged. (R.)
3.
Any small projection or article in which there is an orifice for discharging a fluid, or for other purposes; as, the nipple of a nursing bottle; the nipple of a percussion lock, or that part on which the cap is put and through which the fire passes to the charge.
4.
(Mech.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
Solder nipple, a short pipe, usually of brass, one end of which is tapered and adapted for attachment to the end of a lead pipe by soldering.






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"Nipple" Quotes from Famous Books



... oil through the drop-nipple by hydrostatic pressure; that is, the water of condensation in the condenser and its pipe being elevated above the oil magazine forces the oil out of the latter by just so much pressure as the column of water is higher than the exit ...
— Rough and Tumble Engineering • James H. Maggard

... marks with the nails are made close to one another near the nipple of the breast, it is called ...
— The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - Translated From The Sanscrit In Seven Parts With Preface, - Introduction and Concluding Remarks • Vatsyayana

... water, or tannin, used for several months in advance will harden as effectually as brandy. If there is soreness on commencing to nurse, put a pinch of alum into milk, and apply the curd to the nipple." ...
— Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why - What Medical Writers Say • Martha M. Allen

... so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As ...
— The Germ - Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art • Various

... tin dipper, eh? Passing everybody else a bottle and a rubber nipple! Everybody getting his, and me left out! All right. If that's political gratitude in these new times, go on with you medinkculum! And last year I snapped the six up-country caucuses that gave you your ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day

... the nipple of his right breast appeared a gaping hole. They insisted that under no consideration should he speak, but the ...
— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

... have fresh cheese and cream? Julia's breast can give you them: And, if more, each nipple cries: To ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick

... then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the left arm-pit. Thou shalt sprinkle the left armpit; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the chest. Thou shalt sprinkle the chest; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the back. Thou shalt sprinkle the back; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the right nipple. Thou shalt sprinkle the right nipple; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the left nipple. Thou shalt sprinkle the left nippie; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the right rib. Thou shalt sprinkle the right rib; then the Drug Nasu rushes upon the left rib. ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various

... she unhooked the bosom of her bodice, and, freeing (with my assistance) the breast which nature had prepared for at least a dozen children, applied the mutinous young Orlovian to the nipple. As for him, he at once understood the matter, and ceased to ...
— Through Russia • Maxim Gorky

... by selecting a nursing-bottle which has the nipple in the shape of the breast. Care should be taken that the hole in the nipple is not too large, supplying more milk than the stomach can take care of as it comes, and so causing stomachic disorder. The nursing bottle should at all times be kept thoroughly clean by rinsing in hot water and ...
— Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife • Marion Mills Miller

... awoke crying for the breast. The little lips caught at the nipple, the wee hand pressed the white curve, and in a moment Esther's face took that expression of holy solicitude which Raphael sublimated in the Virgin's downward-gazing eyes. Jenny watched the gluttonous lips, interested in the spectacle, ...
— Esther Waters • George Moore

... sick, the father, to quiet the infant, took it into his bed, and pressed it to his bosom. Lozano, then thirty-two years of age, had never before remarked that he had milk: but the irritation of the nipple, sucked by the child, caused the accumulation of that liquid. The milk was thick and very sweet. The father, astonished at the increased size of his breast, suckled his child two or three times a day during five months. He drew on himself the attention ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... arms, like a gaunt sibyl, and spoke to her Maker, quietly, as if He were a man before her in the room. "Ruin and murder," she said slowly, "and madness; and death at my nipple like a child! When will ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown

... AREOLA OR MARK around the nipple is one of the distinguishing signs of pregnancy—more especially of a first pregnancy. Women who have had large families, seldom, even when they are not pregnant, lose this mark entirely; but ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... progress from the horse (as I conceive) to the nipple of the cow, and from the cow to the ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... suck, and knew "How tender 'twas to love the babe that milk'd her." But yet, who could "Even while 'twas smiling in her face, "Have pluck'd her nipple from the boneless gums, "And ...
— A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America • John Adams



Words linked to "Nipple" :   pap, nipple shield, bottle, nursing bottle, cap, mammary gland, mammilla, mamilla, teat, reproductive organ, tit, mamma



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