NICK
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Traducere: română
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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. ni`ptein 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 nick{2} 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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