Index of English words, starting with "ni"

(1) - Nipple (n.) A pipe fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a screw thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
(2) - Nipple (n.) 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.
(3) - Nipple (n.) The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
(4) - Nipple (n.) The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

(1) - Nirvana (n.) In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.

(1) - Nisus (n.) A striving; an effort; a conatus.

(1) - Nit (n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.