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Webster 1913 Edition

Nick

Nick

(nĭk)
,
Noun.
[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.
νίπτειν
to wash, Skr.
nij
. Cf.
Nix
.]
(Northern Myth.)
An evil spirit of the waters.
Old Nick
,
the evil one; the devil.
[Colloq.]

Nick

,
Noun.
[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.
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
.
Howell.
This
nick
of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point.
L’Estrange.

Nick

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Nicked
(nĭkt)
;
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.
And thence proceed to
nicking
sashes.
Prior.
The itch of his affection should not then
Have
nicked
his captainship.
Shakespeare
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.
Camden.
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.
L'Estrange.
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

,
Verb.
T.
To nickname; to style.
[Obs.]
For Warbeck, as you
nick
him, came to me.
Ford.

Webster 1828 Edition

Nick

NICK

,
Noun.
In the northern mythology, an evil spirit of the saters; hence the modern vulgar phrase, Old Nick, the evil one.

NICK

,
Noun.
[G. The nape; a continual nodding. The word seems to signify a point, from shooting forward.]
1.
The exact point of time required by necessity or convenience; the critical time.
2.
[G. knick, a flaw.] A notch or score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
3.
A winning throw.

NICK

, v.t.
1.
To hit; to touch luckily; to perform by a slight artifice used at the lucky time.
The just reason of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved.
2.
To cut in nicks or notches. [See Notch]
3.
To suit, as lattices cut in nicks.
4.
To defeat or cozen, as at dice; to disappoint by some trick or unexpected turn.

NICK

,
Verb.
T.
[G. knicken, to flaw.] To notch or make an incision in a horses tail, to make him carry it higher.

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