• Nep

    Pronunciation

    • IPA: /nÉ›p/

    Origin

    Shortened from nepte.

    Full definition of nep

    Noun

    nep

    (plural neps)
    1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
      • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

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