Nib

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb

Full definition of nib

Noun

1. The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface.
• 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room Chapter 1Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
2. The bill or beak of a bird; the neb.
3. Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
4. Partially processed cocoa bean.
5. A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
• Sir Thomas Brownethe little nib or fructifying principle
6. One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
7. The shaft of a wagon.

Derived terms

• denib

Anagrams

• bin
• BNI
• ibn