nick
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
nick
n 1: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn:
{dent}, {ding}, {gouge}, {nick}]
2: (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick"
3: a small cut [syn: {notch}, {nick}, {snick}]
v 1: cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his
cheek" [syn: {nick}, {snick}]
2: cut a nick into [syn: {nick}, {chip}]
3: divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"
4: mate successfully; of livestock
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Nick \Nick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nicked} (n[i^]kt); p. pr. &
vb. n. {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.
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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.
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And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior.
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The itch of his affection should not then
Have nicked his captainship. --Shak.
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3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to
tally with.
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Words nicking and resembling one another are
applicable to different significations. --Camden.
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4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at
the precise point or time.
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The just season of doing things must be nicked, and
all accidents improved. --L'Estrange.
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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).
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Nick \Nick\ (n[i^]k), n. [AS. nicor a marine monster; akin to D.
nikker a water spite, Icel. nykr, ONG. nihhus a crocodile, G.
nix a water sprite; cf. Gr. ni`ptein to wash, Skr. nij. Cf.
{Nix}.] (Northern Myth.)
An evil spirit of the waters.
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{Old Nick}, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.]
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Nick \Nick\, n. [Akin to {Nock}.]
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. --W. Savage.
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2. Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface;
as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.
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3. A particular point or place considered as marked by a
nick; the exact point or critical moment.
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To cut it off in the very nick. --Howell.
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This nick of time is the critical occasion for the
gaining of a point. --L'Estrange.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "nick":
Vandyke, appropriate, arrest, ascender, back, bastard type, beard,
beat it, belly, bevel, birthmark, black letter, blaze,
blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, body, brand, cabbage, cap, capital,
case, cast, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off,
checkmark, chip, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, clout, collar,
counter, crap, craps, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut,
dapple, dash, defect, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depart,
depression, descender, discolor, discoloration, dot, earmark, em,
en, engrave, engraving, face, fat-faced type, feet, flaw, fleck,
flick, font, freckle, gash, gouge, graving, groove, hack, hatch,
hook, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation,
indenture, italic, jag, jog, joggle, jot, kerf, knurl, lentigo,
letter, ligature, line, logotype, lower case, machicolate, macula,
majuscule, make a mark, make off with, make tracks, mark, mark off,
mark out, marking, mill, minuscule, mole, mottle, nab, nail,
natural, nevus, nip, nock, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, pi, pica,
picot, pinch, pink, point, police station, polka dot, prick, print,
punch, punctuate, puncture, purloin, riddle, roll, roman,
sans serif, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch,
scratch, scratching, script, seal, seam, serrate, shank, shot,
shoulder, slash, small cap, small capital, speck, speckle, splash,
splotch, spot, stain, stamp, steal, stem, stigma, stigmatize,
strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, take, take in, take off,
tattoo, tattoo mark, throw, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace,
type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface,
typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case,
watermark
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