nipple

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The hole in the nipple was a bit large, which occasioned the subsequent bolting of the food, and then to continue the "mothering" she swayed him to and fro, all of which was interrupted suddenly by the vomiting of a deluge of milk Illustration: Fig.

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  1. noun The small projection near the center of the mammary gland containing the outlets of the milk ducts through which young mammals obtain milk from the adult female; a teat.
  2. noun A corresponding projection of the male breast.
  3. noun The rubber cap on a bottle from which a baby nurses.

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  • I think they look nice -- and if you take off the nipple, which is the characterizing, determining factor, what you've got is a blob of fat there. —  The Real Frank Zappa Book
  • Duncan stroked one breast with his hand while he worshipped the other with his mouth, sucking until the nipple was a hard nub. —  Garwood, Julie - Honor's Splendour
  • Depending on the grade of inversion the ducts leading to the nipple are then either gently stretched or divided —  lipstick.com: celebrity news that matters to you
  • The projecting elevation of the breast, which the child takes in his mouth when nursing, is called the nipple; the darker colored area surrounding the nipple is called the areola Illustration: THE PELVIS OF THE MALE Illustration: THE PELVIS OF THE FEMALE SUBCHAPTER C THE PELVIS The internal sex organs are situated in the lower part of the abdominal cavity, the part that is called the pelvis_, or pelvic cavity. —  Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • The hole in the nipple was a bit large, which occasioned the subsequent bolting of the food, and then to continue the "mothering" she swayed him to and fro, all of which was interrupted suddenly by the vomiting of a deluge of milk Illustration: Fig. —  The Mother and Her Child
 

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  1. From obsolete neble, diminutive of neb.

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  1. Early modern English neple, nypil, *neble; origin uncertain; referred by some to nib neb.
  2. from nipple, n.
 

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