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- English Word Nickar tree Definition Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
- English Word Nicked Definition of Nick
- English Word Nickel Definition 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.
- English Word Nickel Definition A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
- English Word Nickelic Definition 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.
- English Word Nickeliferous Definition Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
- English Word Nickeline Definition An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
- English Word Nickeline Definition Niccolite.
- English Word Nickelous Definition 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.
- English Word Nicker Definition One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence.
- English Word Nicker Definition 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.
- English Word Nicker nut Definition 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.
- English Word Nicker tree Definition The plant producing nicker nuts.
- English Word Nicking Definition of Nick
- English Word Nicking Definition The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.
- English Word Nicking Definition Small coal produced in making the nicking.
- English Word Nickle Definition The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
- English Word Nicknack Definition See Knickknack.
- English Word Nicknackery Definition See Knickknackery.
- English Word Nickname Definition A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
- English Word Nickname Definition To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
- English Word Nicknamed Definition of Nickname
- English Word Nicknaming Definition of Nickname
- English Word Nicolaitan Definition One of certain corrupt persons in the early church at Ephesus, who are censured in rev. ii. 6, 15.
- English Word Nicotian Definition Tobacco.
- English Word Nicotian Definition Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.
- English Word Nicotiana Definition A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.
- English Word Nicotianine Definition A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
- English Word Nicotic Definition Nicotinic.
- English Word Nicotidine Definition A complex, oily, nitrogenous base, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.