'Nick' definitions:
Definition of 'nick'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Nick'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Old Nick, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nick'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. [1913 Webster]
- To cut it off in the very nick. --Howell. [1913 Webster]
- This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nick'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
- And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior. [1913 Webster]
- The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. [1913 Webster]
- Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. --Camden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. [1913 Webster]
- The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 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). [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Nick'
From: GCIDE
- Nick \Nick\, v. t. To nickname; to style. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. --Ford. [1913 Webster] Nickar nut
Synonyms of 'nick'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Vandyke,
- watermark