nick

[nick]

A nick is a tiny cut or scratch. Your neighbor might be so proud and protective of his brand new car that even a nick in its paint would be deeply upsetting to him.

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An evil spirit of the waters.

Noun
a small cut

Noun
an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

Verb
mate successfully; of livestock

Verb
divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"

Verb
cut a nick into

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Verb
cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber''s knife nicked his cheek"


n.
An evil spirit of the waters.

n.
A notch cut into something

n.
A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

n.
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

n.
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

n.
A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

v. t.
To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

v. t.
To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

v. t.
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

v. t.
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

v. t.
To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

v. t.
To nickname; to style.


Nick

Nick , n. [AS. nicor a marine monster; akin to D. nikker a water spite, Icel. nykr, ONG. nihhus a crocodile, G. nix a water sprite; cf. Gr. to wash, Skr. nij. Cf. Nix.] (Northern Myth.) An evil spirit of the waters. Old Nick, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.]

Nick

Nick, n. [Akin to Nock.] 1. A notch cut into something; as: (a) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. [Obs.] (b) (Print.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution. W. Savage. (c) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china. 2. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
To cut it off in the very nick.
This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gainger of a point.

Nick

Nick, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Nicking.] 1. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. 2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship.
3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
5. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher).

Nick

Nick, v. t. To nickname; to style. [Obs.]
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.

An evil spirit of the waters.

A notch cut into something

To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.

To nickname; to style.

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Usage Examples

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff.

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