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Bible Dictionaries
Nick
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
(3):
(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
(4):
(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
(5):
(n.) A notch cut into something
(6):
(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
(7):
(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).
(8):
(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.
(9):
(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
(10):
(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
(11):
(v. t.) To nickname; to style.
(12):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Nick'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/n/nick.html. 1828.
