Synonyms of the word nib


NIBBEAK - BILL - MOUTH - NEB - PECKER - POINT

nib

  • n. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
  • n. The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
  • n. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
  • n. A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
  • n. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
  • n. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
  • n. The shaft of a wagon.

beak

  • n. Anatomical uses.
  • n. Figurative uses.
  • n. Colloquial uses.
  • v. (transitive) Strike with the beak.
  • v. (transitive) Seize with the beak.

bill

  • n. Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later…
  • n. A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook.
  • n. Somebody armed with a bill; a billman.
  • n. A pickaxe, or mattock.
  • n. (nautical) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak).
  • v. (transitive) To dig, chop, etc., with a bill.
  • n. The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a turtle,…
  • n. A beak-like projection, especially a promontory.
  • n. (of a hat or cap) The peak or brim, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes.
  • v. (obsolete) To peck.
  • v. To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness.
  • n. A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill…
  • n. A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain…
  • n. A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
  • n. (obsolete, law) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the…
  • n. (US) A piece of paper money; a banknote.
  • n. A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice.
  • n. A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play,…
  • n. A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without…
  • n. A set of items presented together.
  • v. (transitive) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
  • v. (transitive) To charge; to send a bill to.
  • n. The bell, or boom, of the bittern.

mouth

  • n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
  • v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

neb

  • n. (now dialectal) A bird's beak or bill.
  • n. (obsolete) A person's mouth.
  • n. (now dialectal) A person's nose.
  • n. (now dialectal) The nose or snout of an animal, now especially of a fish.
  • n. (now dialectal) A projecting extremity; a point or sharp projection.
  • n. (now dialectal) A nib, as of a pen.

pecker

  • n. Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly.
  • n. (Britain colloquial, by extension from ‘beak’) A nose.
  • n. (Britain colloquial, by extension, from the expression ‘keep one's pecker up’) Spirits, nerve, courage.
  • n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash").
  • n. (chiefly plural, pejorative slang) Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
  • n. (US) Clipping of pecker head ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords…

point

  • n. A discrete division of something.
  • n. A sharp extremity.
  • n. (heraldry) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
  • n. (nautical) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
  • n. (historical) A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
  • n. Lace worked by the needle.
  • n. (US, slang, dated) An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
  • n. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
  • n. (falconry) The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
  • n. The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
  • n. The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
  • n. (medicine, obsolete) A vaccine point.
  • n. In various sports, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player occupying that position.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or…
  • v. (intransitive) To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To face in a particular direction.
  • v. (transitive) To direct toward an object; to aim.
  • v. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
  • v. (intransitive) To indicate a probability of something.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, masonry) To repair mortar.
  • v. (transitive, masonry) To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or…
  • v. (stone-cutting) To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
  • v. (transitive) To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with diacritics.
  • v. (dated) To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate.
  • v. (transitive, computing) To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location…
  • v. (transitive, Internet) To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that…
  • v. (intransitive, nautical) To sail close to the wind.
  • v. (intransitive, hunting) To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting…
  • v. (medicine, of an abscess) To approximate to the surface; to head.
  • v. (obsolete) To appoint.
  • v. (dated) To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to point out.

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