"nipple" Definition

Definitions for the word "nipple" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The orifice at which any animal liquid, as the oil from an oil bag, is discharged.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 small projection in which the mammary ducts of either sex of mammals terminate and from which in females milk is secreted for the young. 2 teat of a feeding-bottle. 3 device like a nipple in function. 4 nipple-like protuberance. [perhaps from neb tip]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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