pple. and ppl. a. = FROST-BITTEN.

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1773.  Phil. Trans., LXIII. 129. Its other branches were … frost-nipt.

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1796.  Campaigns, 1793–4, II. 122. A pair of naked frost-nipt legs.

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1817.  Scott, Harold, II. ii. Frost-nipt leaves.

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1886.  Hall Caine, Son of Hagar, II. xiv. Sheep were bleating high up on the frost-nipped side of the fell.

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  fig.  1684.  Z. Cawdrey, Certainty Salvat., 28. The first warm … Spring-beam to the Frost-nipt Loyalty of the Nation.

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1695.  Congreve, Love for Love, IV. xv. Knaves will thrive thro’ craft, and Fools thro’ Fortune; and Honesty will go as it did, Frost-nip’t in a Summer suit.

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1797.  M. Robinson, Walsingham, II. 219. Its expanding wings had been frost-nipped by disappointment.

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