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Pinchingly :: Pinchingly (adv.) In a pinching way.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.

Cheliform :: Cheliform (a.) Having a movable joint or finger closing against a preceding joint or a projecting part of it, so that the whole may be used for grasping, as the claw of a crab; pincherlike..

Forcipation :: Forcipation (n.) Torture by pinching with forceps or pinchers.

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

Nip :: Nip (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon..

Skinch :: Skinch (v. t. & i.) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.

Belly-pinched :: Belly-pinched (a.) Pinched with hunger; starved.

Teetee :: Teetee (n.) Any one of several species of small, soft-furred South American monkeys belonging to Callithrix, Chrysothrix, and allied genera; as, the collared teetee (Callithrix torquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel..

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

Nippers :: Nippers (n. pl.) Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting..

Chelicera :: Chelicera (n.) One of the anterior pair of mouth organs, terminated by a pincherlike claw, in scorpions and allied Arachnida. They are homologous with the falcers of spiders, and probably with the mandibles of insects..

Pinching :: Pinching (a.) Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony..

Hungered :: Hungered (a.) Hungry; pinched for food.

Tweezers :: Tweezers (n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes..

Hunger-bitten :: Hunger-bitten (a.) Pinched or weakened by hunger.

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Pincher :: Pincher (n.) One who, or that which, pinches..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him..

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

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