Definition of nick

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Nick (v. t.) 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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Knickknack :: Knickknack (n.) A trifle or toy; a bawble; a gewgaw.
Nickle :: Nickle (n.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Dago :: Dago (n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent..
Nicker Tree :: Nicker tree () The plant producing nicker nuts.
Dornick :: Dornick (n.) Alt. of Dornoc.
Suckered :: Sucker (n.) A nickname applied to a native of Illinois.
Snickered :: Snickered (imp. & p. p.) of Snicke.
Finicking :: Finicking (a.) Alt. of Finick.
Uranium :: Uranium (n.) An element of the chromium group, found in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting. Symbol U. Atomic weight 239..
Snicked :: Snicked (imp. & p. p.) of Snic.
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Knickerbockers :: Knickerbockers (n. pl.) The name for a style of short breeches; smallclothes.
Screw-driver :: Screw-driver (n.) A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
Snick :: Snick (n.) A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional..
Smaltite :: Smaltite (n.) A tin-white or gray mineral of metallic luster. It is an arsenide of cobalt, nickel, and iron. Called also speiskobalt..
Sandhiller :: Sandhiller (n.) A nickname given to any poor white living in the pine woods which cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina..
Ullmannite :: Ullmannite (n.) A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel..
Nickelous :: Nickelous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, those compounds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide..
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