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- Nick - n. - An evil spirit of the waters.
- Nick - n. - A notch cut into something
- Nick - n. - A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
- Nick - 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.
- Nick - n. - A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- Nick - n. - A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- Nick - 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.
- Nick - v. t. - To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- Nick - v. t. - To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- Nick - v. t. - To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- Nick - 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).
- Nick - v. t. - To nickname; to style.
- Nickar nut - - Alt. of Nickar tree
- Nickar tree - - Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
- Nicked - imp. & p. p. - of Nick
- Nickel - n. - A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
- Nickel - n. - A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
- Nickelic - a. - Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.
- Nickeliferous - a. - Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
- Nickeline - n. - An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
- Nickeline - n. - Niccolite.
- Nickelous - a. - Of, pertaining to, or designating, those compounds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide.
- Nicker - v. t. - One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
- Nicker - v. t. - The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
- Nicker nut - - A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C. Bonducella, bluish gray.
- Screw-driver - n. - A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
- Nick - 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.
- Screw - n. - Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.