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   Nick (nĭk), 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. νίπτειν to wash, Skr. nij.  Cf. Nix.] (Northern Myth.) An evil spirit of the waters.
   
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   Old Nick, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.]
   
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   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.
   
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   2. Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, “nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top”.
   
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   3. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
   
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   To cut it off in the very nick. Howell.
   
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   This nick of time is the critical occasion for the gaining of a point. L'Estrange.
   
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   Nick, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicked (nĭkt); 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.”
   
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   2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick2 in, deliberately or accidentally; as, “to nick the rim of a teacup”.
   
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   And thence proceed to nicking sashes. Prior.
   
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   The itch of his affection should not then
   
   Have nicked his captainship. Shak.
   
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   3. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
   
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   Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. Camden.
   
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   4. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
   
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   The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. L'Estrange.
   
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   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).
   
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   Nick, v. t. To nickname; to style. [Obs.]
   
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   For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. Ford.
   
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