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Is nibble a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive)Examples: "The rabbit nibbled the lettuce."; "His little Goats gan driue out of their ſtalls, / To feede abroad, vvhere paſture beſt befalls. / […] / Some clambring through the hollovv cliffes on hy, / Nibble the buſhie ſhrubs, vvhich grovve thereby."; "I then nibbled all the red wax of our last ball-tickets, […]"Synonyms: nabtransitive
2. (transitive)Examples: "My hand, as it hangs down, thou nibblest tenderly, […]"; "Social animals perform many little services for each other: horses nibble, and cows lick each other, on any spot which itches: […]"transitive
3. (transitive)transitive
4. (transitive)Examples: "Before he realized it, he had nibbled his way through a whole bag of potato chips."; "The cows nibbled their way across the field."transitive
5. (transitive)Examples: "The bases of the smaller trees were nibbled bare by rabbits, […]"; "The grass had been nibbled short and even, so this stretch was not shaggy and red like the surrounding country, but gray and velvety."transitive
6. (transitive)Examples: "The ravviſh danke of clumzie vvinter ramps / The fluent ſummers vaine: and drizling ſleete / Chilleth the vvan bleak cheek of the numd earth, / VVhilſt ſnarling guſts nibble the iuyceles leaues, / From the nak't ſhuddring branch; […]"; "Am I reiected, all my baites nibled off, / And not the fiſh caught?"; "Y[oung] Lar[oon]. I am ſure our Bait is good—A fine VVoman is as good a Bait for a Prieſt-trap, as toaſted Cheeſe is for a Mouſe-trap. / Old Lar[oon]. Yes, but the Raſcal vvill nibble off tvventy Baits before you can take him."transitive
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A slight show of interest in something, such as a commercial opportunity or a proposal.figuratively
2. (obsolete, rare) Grass or other vegetation eaten by livestock; forage, pasturage.Examples: "On the northern slopes of the light-earthed hills the moss had come over the herbage, and the sweet nibble of the sheep was souring."obsoleterare
noun (English)
1. (computing) A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.Examples: "I own several abaci and two books on how to use them, but they all have four counters below the bar and one counter above it. […] The bottom four counters of each abacus can be used to represent a "nybble," and the upper counter on each can be used for parity."; "At every negative-going transition it reads a 4-bit ADPCM nybble (there are 2 nybbles per byte) and stores it in a memory-resident table."; "Data is being received by a system in serial sequences of four bit nybbles. (A nybble is usually defined as a four bit grouping.) […] Our mission, should we decide to accept it, is to test each nybble and determine whether or not the four bits constitute a valid BCD (8421) number."
Definition source: Wiktionary