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nipple 1. the small conical projection in the centre of the areola of each breast, which in women contains the outlet of the milk ducts 2. a small drilled bush, usually screwed into a bearing, through which grease is introduced nipple [′nip·əl] (anatomy) The conical projection in the center of the mamma, containing the outlets of the milk ducts. (design engineering) A short piece of tubing, usually with an internal or external thread at each end, used to couple pipes. Also known as bushing.
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I, Jose da Silvestra, who am now dying of hunger in the little cave here no snow is on the north side of the nipple of the southernmost of the two mountains I have named Sheba's Breasts, write this in the year 1590 with a cleft bone upon a remnant of my raiment, my blood being the ink. Therefore he was named Simoeisius, but he did not live to pay his parents for his rearing, for he was cut off untimely by the spear of mighty Ajax, who struck him in the breast by the right nipple as he was coming on among the foremost fighters; the spear went right through his shoulder, and he fell as a poplar that has grown straight and tall in a meadow by some mere, and its top is thick with branches. As he spoke he drew his keen blade of bronze, sharpened on both sides, and with a loud cry sprang towards Ulysses, but Ulysses instantly shot an arrow into his breast that caught him by the nipple and fixed itself in his liver. |
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