Nick

·noun A notch cut into something.

II. Nick ·noun An evil spirit of the waters.

III. Nick ·noun A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

IV. Nick ·noun A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

V. Nick ·vt To Nickname; to Style.

VI. Nick ·vt To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

VII. Nick ·vt To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

VIII. Nick ·noun A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

IX. Nick ·vt 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).

X. Nick ·vt To Mar; to Deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

XI. Nick ·noun A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

XII. Nick ·vt To make a nick or nicks in; to Notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, ·etc.