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- English Word Nick Definition A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
- English Word Nick Definition A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
- English Word Nick Definition A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
- English Word Nick Definition To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
- English Word Nick Definition To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
- English Word Nick Definition To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
- English Word Nick Definition To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
- English Word Nick Definition 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).
- English Word Nick Definition To nickname; to style.
- English Word Nickar nut Definition Alt. of Nickar tree
- 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.