Nick
[nɪk]
Definition
(noun.) (British slang) a prison; 'he's in the nick'.
(verb.) mate successfully; of livestock.
(verb.) divide or reset the tail muscles of; 'nick horses'.
(verb.) cut a nick into.
(verb.) cut slightly, with a razor; 'The barber's knife nicked his cheek'.
Checker: Nanette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.
(n.) A notch cut into something
(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
(n.) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
(v. t.) To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
(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).
(v. t.) To nickname; to style.
Checker: Marty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Critical point (of time), critical moment, fortunate conjuncture.[2]. Notch, dent, dint, indentation, incision.
v. a. Notch, cut notches in.
Typed by Emile
Definition
n. the devil esp. Old Nick.
n. a notch cut into something: a score for keeping an account: the precise moment of time: a lucky throw at hazard.—v.t. to cut in notches: to hit the precise time: to strike as if making a nick: to cheat: catch in the act: to cut short: (Scot.) to cut with a single snip as of shears: to make a cut with the pick in the face of coal to facilitate blasting or wedging.—adj. Nick′-eared crop-eared.—n. Nick′er one who or that which nicks: a woodpecker: a street-ruffian in the early part of the 18th century.—Nick a horse's tail to make a cut at the root of the tail making the horse carry it higher.
Typed by Humphrey
Examples
- So, the Spider, doggedly watching Estella, outwatched many brighter insects, and would often uncoil himself and drop at the right nick of time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- However, if I hear of her and her family, you shall know, Nick. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is come just in the nick of time, said Smith. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Why, if a man has got any heart, doesn't he want to see an old friend, Nick? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Bhaer was Nick Bottom, and Tina was Titania, a perfect little fairy in his arMs. To see them dance was 'quite a landscape', to use a Teddyism. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Why, I always called you Nick in my heart, and though lost to sight, to memory dear. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Noddy--or Nick--Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It struck me that so astute a man as Straker would not undertake this delicate tendon-nicking without a little practice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Of all the imperfections (not considering glaring cracks or nicks), carbon spots are the most discernible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Surface flaws consist of nicks or cavities in the face of the stone either above or below the girdle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Checker: Valerie