NAP  , the

pile on cloth, the surface of short fibres raised by special processes, differing with the various fabrics, and then smoothed and cut . Formerly the word was applied to the roughness on textiles before shearing . " Nap " in this sense appears in many Teutonic languages, cf . Ger . Noppe, Dutch nap, Nor. napp; the verbal form is noppen or noppen, to trim, cutshort . The word nap also means a short sleep or doze (0, Eng. hnappian) . In " napkin," a square of damask or other linen, used for wiping the hands and lips or for protecting the clothes at meals, the second part is a common English suffix, sometimes of diminutive force, and the first is from " nape," 1 Low Lat. napa or nappa, a corrupt form of mappa, table-cloth . Nape still survives in " napery," a name for household linen in general .