NICK

Nick ( n. ) - A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.

Nick ( 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.

Nick ( n. ) - A notch cut into something

Nick ( n. ) - A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.

Nick ( n. ) - A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

Nick ( n. ) - An evil spirit of the waters.

Nick ( v. t. ) - To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

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).

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.

Nick ( v. t. ) - To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.

Nick ( v. t. ) - To nickname; to style.

Nick ( v. t. ) - To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.