Word: nip
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There has been much discussion of the possibility and advisability of a University Club. And against it have been urged such arguments as that the Harvard indifference would nip the club in the bud, and that there was no sufficiently widespread motives to bring students within its hallowed precincts...
...Haven games. It has never yet had that pleasure. In putting the shot and throwing the ham mer, in the broad jump, in the 100 yards, and in hurdle, the wearers of the blue and white will probably render a good account of themselves, but parental fears will probably nip their all-around championship aspirations in the bud. The parents of Brooks and Hamilton regard athletic training as just a trifle less dangerous than working a battery on Cemetery Hill, and the blue and white brigade will therefore, in all probability, be minus Brooks and Hamilton's valuable services. - Sportsman...
...Faust's soul in the 16th century. It is he who, a little earlier in the same century, aimed at higher game than the poor astrologer and alchemist, and, had he not been frightened off by a well aimed inkstand, might have succeeded in his very natural desire to nip the Reformation in the bud by carrying off Luther himself. Later on, about the end of the 18th century, the same Devil appeared to have become such a very active mover in the world, that he inspired a number of very similar poems among English poets. Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley...