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Nick   /nɪk/   Listen
noun
Nick  n.  (Northern Myth.) An evil spirit of the waters.
Old Nick, the evil one; the devil. (Colloq.)


Nick  n.  
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.
2.
Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.
3.
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 gaining of a point."


verb
Nick  v. t.  (past & past part. nicked; pres. part. 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; to create a nick (2) in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup. "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 it higher).


Nick  v. t.  To nickname; to style. (Obs.) "For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me."





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... called Iberville," said the young man simply. Then: "My father and myself started from Quebec with good Nick Perrot, the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... the name of Zachary Taylor, the twelfth President of the United States, but he could always readily recall his nick-name, "Rough and Ready." In this case there was no revivable connection established in his mind between the name Zachary Taylor and the idea or image of the man known as Zachary Taylor—but there was a revivable connection in his mind ...
— Assimilative Memory - or, How to Attend and Never Forget • Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
... by what is called an accommodating disposition, but not by the disposition incidental to the esprit de corps of a large staff of domestic servants. To control them is notoriously the deuce's own delight, and old Nick's relish for it must grow in proportion as they become more and more corporate. As Mr. Norbury said—and we do not feel that we can add to the force of his words—her young ladyship had not took ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... pity she don't go well in gear. The difficulty with those critters is to git them to start: arter that there is no trouble with them, if you don't check 'em too short. If you do they'll stop again, run back and kick like mad, and then Old Nick himself wouldn't start 'em. Pugwash, I guess, don't understand the natur' of the crittur; she'll never go kind in harness for him. When I see a child," said the Clockmaker, "I always feel safe with these women-folk; for I have always found ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) • Various
... came very seasonably; you are come in the Nick of Time; I was just now wishing for you; I am extreme ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus


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