Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Displaying 2 result(s) from the 1913 edition:

Nib (Page: 974)

Nib (?), n. [A variabt of neb.]

1. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong. The little nib or fructifying principle." Sir T. Browne.

2. (Zoöl.) The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.

3. The points of a pen; also, the pointed part of a pen; a short pen adapted for insertion in a holder.

4. One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon.

Nib (Page: 974)

Nib, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nebbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Nibbing.] To furnish with a nib; to point; to mend the point of; as, to nib a pen.

Displaying 1 result(s) from the 1828 edition:

NIB, n.

1. The bill or beak of a fowl.

2. The point of any thing, particularly of a pen.