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  • 11nib-nib — variant of neb neb …

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  • 12nib — [ nıb ] noun count the pointed end of a pen that you write with …

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  • 13nib — ► NOUN 1) the pointed end part of a pen, which distributes the ink. 2) (nibs) shelled and crushed coffee or cocoa beans. ORIGIN originally in the sense «beak, nose»: probably from Dutch nib or Low German nibbe, related to NEB(Cf. ↑N) …

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  • 14nib — [nib] n. [var. of NEB] 1. the bill or beak of a bird 2. a) Historical the split and sharpened end of a quill pen b) the point of a pen 3. the projecting end of anything; point vt …

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  • 15NIB — Siglas de National Institute for the Blind. Diccionario Mosby Medicina, Enfermería y Ciencias de la Salud, Ediciones Hancourt, S.A. 1999 …

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  • 16nib — nib …

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  • 17nib — (n.) 1580s, beak or bill of a bird, Scottish variant of O.E. neb (see NEB (Cf. neb)). Meaning point (of a pen or quill) first recorded 1610s …

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  • 18nib — *bill, beak, neb …

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  • 19nib|lick — «NIHB lihk», noun. a golf club with a heavy steel head having a sharply sloping face, used for high, short shots, as when the ball is in a sand trap. It is called a “9 iron.” ╂[origin uncertain] …

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  • 20Nib|mar — or NIBMAR «NIHB mahr», noun. no independence before majority African rule (a statement by Great Britain and members of the Commonwealth of Nations demanding proportional representation for the black population in white ruled dependencies before… …

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