NICK
\nˈɪk], \nˈɪk], \n_ˈɪ_k]\
Definitions of NICK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
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mate successfully; of livestock
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cut a nick into
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divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"
By Princeton University
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cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek"
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mate successfully; of livestock
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divide or reset the tail muscles, as of horses
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cut a nick into
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hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat, in cricket
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The Devil.
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An evil spirit of the waters.
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A notch cut into something
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A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
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A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
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A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
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A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
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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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To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
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To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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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).
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To nickname; to style.
By Oddity Software
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The Devil.
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An evil spirit of the waters.
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A notch cut into something
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A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
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A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
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A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
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A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
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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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To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
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To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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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).
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To nickname; to style.
By Noah Webster.
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The Devil.
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A notch cut into something: a score for keeping an account: the precise moment of time.
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To cut in notches: to hit the precise time.
By Daniel Lyons
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The Devil.
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A cut or notch.
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To notch; hit; fit.
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A slight cut or dent; notch; tally; point of time; critical moment.
By James Champlin Fernald
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A notch; slit; a broken place in any edge or surface; as, a nick in the table; exact or critical point of time; as, he arrived in the nick of time; in old folk tales, an evil water sprite.
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To cut notches in; hit or grasp at the lucky moment. Nick, the devil.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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