pinch
pinch
subs.
Squeeze: Ar. and P. θλί̄βειν, πιέζειν, P. συμπιέζειν.
Met., difficulty: P. and V. ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, τὸ ἄ̆πορον.
Feel the pinch of hunger: use P. and V. λῑμῷ πιέζεσθαι.
subs.
Squeeze: Ar. and P. θλί̄βειν, πιέζειν, P. συμπιέζειν.
Met., difficulty: P. and V. ἀ̆πορία, ἡ, τὸ ἄ̆πορον.
Feel the pinch of hunger: use P. and V. λῑμῷ πιέζεσθαι.
PINCH
PROP. vellicare (Quint.); comprimere digitis aliquid: to pinch one’s cheeks mala alicui blande comprimere.
Figuratively urere pungere aliquem: my shoes pinch calcei urunt premunt pedem: my stomach is pinched torminibus laboro (Plin.).
Pinch one’s self fraudare se victu suo; fraudare ventrera.
PROP. vellicare (Quint.); comprimere digitis aliquid: to pinch one’s cheeks mala alicui blande comprimere.
Figuratively urere pungere aliquem: my shoes pinch calcei urunt premunt pedem: my stomach is pinched torminibus laboro (Plin.).
Pinch one’s self fraudare se victu suo; fraudare ventrera.
pinch (v.):
I. To nip as with the finger-ends: vellĭco, 1 (to twitch, fillip, pinch): Quint. 6, 1, 41 (from the circumstances related, it evidently means to pinch in this place). Or expr. by circuml.: crabs p. severely with their claws, *cancri quodcunque forcipibus suis arripuerint comprimunt acerrime. See alsoTO SQUEEZE .
II. To inconvenience by want of space, etc.: coarto, 1: v.TO CONFINE . Phr.: entertainments where one is p.'d for room, nimis arta convivia, Hor. Ep. 1, 5, 29: people p.'d up in a narrow theatre, arto stipata [Roma] theatro, ib. 2, 1, 60. Phr.: to p. oneself for food, fraudare se ipsum victu suo, Liv. 2, 10, extr.; defraudare genium suum, Ter. Ph. 1, 1, 9: Liv.
III. To hurt by pinching, gall: ūro, ussi, ustum, 3: if your shoe p., being too small, calceus si minor uret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43.
IV. To nip with cold, ūro, praeūro, 3: v.TO NIP (II.).
V. To distress greatly, of poverty: perh. urgeo, prĕmo (cf. Virg. G. 1, 146, urgens in rebus egestas): v.TO PRESS .
I. To nip as with the finger-ends: vellĭco, 1 (to twitch, fillip, pinch): Quint. 6, 1, 41 (from the circumstances related, it evidently means to pinch in this place). Or expr. by circuml.: crabs p. severely with their claws, *cancri quodcunque forcipibus suis arripuerint comprimunt acerrime. See also
II. To inconvenience by want of space, etc.: coarto, 1: v.
III. To hurt by pinching, gall: ūro, ussi, ustum, 3: if your shoe p., being too small, calceus si minor uret, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43.
IV. To nip with cold, ūro, praeūro, 3: v.
V. To distress greatly, of poverty: perh. urgeo, prĕmo (cf. Virg. G. 1, 146, urgens in rebus egestas): v.
pinch (subs.): Phr.: a couch that will hold four at a p., *lectus quattuor convivarum capax, ut quam artissime recumbant; or, quattuor convivarum quum plurimum capax: v. MOST , adj. (fin.).