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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Hoosier :: Hoosier (n.) A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.
Byname :: Byname (v. t.) To give a nickname to.
Minargent :: Minargent (n.) An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; -- used by jewelers..
Nick :: Nick (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..
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..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Snickering :: Snickering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Snicke.
Roundhead :: Roundhead (n.) A nickname for a Puritan. See Roundheads, the, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction..
Nicknaming :: Nicknaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nicknam.
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..
Nickeliferous :: Nickeliferous (a.) Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron..
Zaratite :: Zaratite (n.) A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.
Electro-magnet :: Electro-magnet (n.) A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe..
Snick :: Snick (n. & v. t.) See Sneck.
Knack :: Knack (n.) A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.
Sobriquet :: Sobriquet (n.) An assumed name; a fanciful epithet or appellation; a nickname.
Provection :: Provection (n.) A carrying forward, as of a final letter, to a following word; as, for example, a nickname for an ekename..
Cabrerite :: Cabrerite (n.) An apple-green mineral, a hydrous arseniate of nickel, cobalt, and magnesia; -- so named from the Sierra Cabrera, Spain..
Nick :: Nick (v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with..
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