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- 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.