pple. and ppl. a. = FROST-BITTEN.
1773. Phil. Trans., LXIII. 129. Its other branches were frost-nipt.
1796. Campaigns, 17934, II. 122. A pair of naked frost-nipt legs.
1817. Scott, Harold, II. ii. Frost-nipt leaves.
1886. Hall Caine, Son of Hagar, II. xiv. Sheep were bleating high up on the frost-nipped side of the fell.
fig. 1684. Z. Cawdrey, Certainty Salvat., 28. The first warm Spring-beam to the Frost-nipt Loyalty of the Nation.
1695. Congreve, Love for Love, IV. xv. Knaves will thrive thro craft, and Fools thro Fortune; and Honesty will go as it did, Frost-nipt in a Summer suit.
1797. M. Robinson, Walsingham, II. 219. Its expanding wings had been frost-nipped by disappointment.