These are the meanings of the letters HNPIEC when you unscramble them.
- Chine (n.)
A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
- Chine (n.)
A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
- Chine (n.)
The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
- Chine (n.)
The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- Chine (v. t.)
To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- Chine (v. t.)
Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..
- Niche (n.)
A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
- Pinch (n.)
A close compression, as with the ends of the fingers, or with an instrument; a nip.
- Pinch (n.)
A lever having a projection at one end, acting as a fulcrum, -- used chiefly to roll heavy wheels, etc. Called also pinch bar.
- Pinch (n.)
As much as may be taken between the finger and thumb; any very small quantity; as, a pinch of snuff.
- Pinch (n.)
Pian; pang.
- Pinch (v. i.)
To act with pressing force; to compress; to squeeze; as, the shoe pinches.
- Pinch (v. i.)
To spare; to be niggardly; to be covetous.
- Pinch (v. i.)
To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- Pinch (v. t.)
Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money.
- Pinch (v. t.)
o seize; to grip; to bite; -- said of animals.
- Pinch (v. t.)
To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch. See Pinch, n., 4.
- Pinch (v. t.)
To plait.
- Pinch (v. t.)
To press hard or squeeze between the ends of the fingers, between teeth or claws, or between the jaws of an instrument; to squeeze or compress, as between any two hard bodies.