Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter N - Page 15
Nicked (imp. & p. p.) of Nick.
Nicking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nick.
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; to create a nick [2] in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes. -- Prior.
The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. -- Shak.
Nick (v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations. -- Camden.
Nick (v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. -- L'Estrange.
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 nickname; to style. [Obs.]
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. -- Ford. Nickar nut
Nick (n.) An impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: dent, ding, gouge, nick].
Nick (n.) (British slang) a prison; "he's in the nick".
Nick (n.) A small cut [syn: notch, nick, snick].
Nick (v.) Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek" [syn: nick, snick].
Nick (v.) Cut a nick into [syn: nick, chip].
Nick (v.) Divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses".
Nick (v.) Mate successfully; of livestock.
Nick (n.) [IRC; very common] Short for nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the same as the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle, screen name.
Nick, () [IRC] nickname. On IRC, every user must pick a nick, which is sometimes the user's real name or login name, but is often more fanciful. Compare handle. [{Jargon File]
Nickar nut () Alt. of Nickar tree.
Nickar tree () (Bot.) Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
Nicker nut, () A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. Caesalpinia Bonduc has yellowish seeds; Caesalpinia Bonducella, bluish gray. [Spelt also neckar nut, nickar nut.]
Nickel (n.) (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.70.
Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron.
Nickel (n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.]
Nickel silver, An alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan.
Nickel (n.) A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28].
Nickel (n.) A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.
Nickel (n.) Five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note].
Nickel (v.) Plate with nickel; "nickel the plate".
Nickel
Symbol: Ni
Atomic number: 28
Atomic weight: 58.71
Malleable ductile silvery metallic transition element. Discovered by A.F.
Cronstedt in 1751.
Nickelic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.
Nickeliferous (a.) Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
Nickeline (n.) (Chem.) An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
Nickeline (n.) (Min.) Niccolite.
Nickelous (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, those compounds of nickel in which, as contrasted with the nickelic compounds, the metal has a lower valence; as, nickelous oxide. -- Frankland.
Nicker (n.) One of the night
brawlers of
Nicker (n.) The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
Nicker (n.) The characteristic sounds made by a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny].
Nicker (v.) Make a characteristic sound, of a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny].
Nicker nut () A rounded seed, rather smaller than a nutmeg, having a hard smooth shell, and a yellowish or bluish color. The seeds grow in the prickly pods of tropical, woody climbers of the genus Caesalpinia. C. Bonduc has yellowish seeds; C. Bonducella, bluish gray. [Spelt also neckar nut, nickar nut.]
Nicker nut (n.) Hard shiny grey seed of a bonduc tree; used for making e.g. jewelry [syn: bonduc nut, nicker nut, nicker seed].
Nicker tree () (Bot.) The plant producing nicker nuts. [Written also neckar tree and nickar tree.]
Nicking (n.) (Coal Mining) The cutting made by the hewer at the side of the face.
Nicking (n.) (Coal Mining) pl. Small coal produced in making the nicking.
Nickle (n.) (Zool.) The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also nicker pecker.
Nickle (n.) [from ?nickel?, common name for the U.S. 5-cent coin] A nybble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See also deckle, and nybble for names of other bit units.
Nickle, (), [from ?nickel?, common name for the US 5-cent coin] A nibble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16 bit-wide RAM but 10 bit-wide ROM. See also deckle, and nybble for names of other bit units.
Nickle, () ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A nibble + 1; 5 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16 bit-wide RAM but 10 bit-wide ROM. See also deckle.
Nicknack (n.) See Knickknack.
Nicknack (n.) Miscellaneous curios [syn: bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, knickknackery, whatnot].
Nicknackery (n.) See Knickknackery.
Nickname (n.) A name given in affectionate familiarity, sportive familiarity, contempt, or derision; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation; as, Nicholas's nickname is Nick.
Nicknamed (imp. & p. p.) of Nickname.
Nicknaming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nickname.
Nickname (v. t.) To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. -- Shak.
I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of finality. -- Macaulay.
Nickname (n.) A familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname].
Nickname (n.) A descriptive name for a place or thing; "the nickname for the U.S. Constitution is `Old Ironsides'".
Nickname (v.) Give a nickname to [syn: dub, nickname].
Nicolaitan (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of
certain corrupt persons in the early church at
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Nicotian (n.) Tobacco.
Nicotian (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, tobacco.
Nicotiana (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco.
Nicotianine (n.) A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.
Nicotic (a.) Nicotinic.
Nicotidine (n.) A complex, oily, nitrogenous base, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.
Nicotine (n.) An alkaloid which is the active principle of tobacco. It is a colorless, transparent, oily liquid, having an acrid odor, and an acrid burning taste. It is intensely poisonous.
Nicotinic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, nicotine; nicotic; -- used specifically to designate an acid related to pyridine, obtained by the oxidation of nicotine, and called nicotinic acid.
Nictate (v. i.) To wink; to nictitate.
Nictation (n.) the act of winking; nictitation.
Nictitate (v. i.) To wink; to nictate.
Nictitation (n.) The act of winking.
Nidamental (a.) Of, pertaining to, or baring, eggs or egg capsules; as, the nidament capsules of certain gastropods; nidamental glands. See Illust. of Dibranchiata.
Nidary (n.) A collection of nests.
Nide (n.) A nestful; a brood; as, a nide of pheasants.
Nidering (a.) Infamous; dastardly.
Nidgery (n.) A trifle; a piece of foolery.
Nidget (n.) A fool; an idiot, a coward.
Nidificated (imp. & p. p.) of Nidificate.
Nidificating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nidificate.
Nidificate (v. i.) To make a nest.
Nidification (n.) The act or process of building a nest.
Niding (n.) A coward; a dastard; -- a term of utmost opprobrium.
Nidor (n.) Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking.
Nidorose (a.) Nidorous.
Nidorous (a.) Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.
Nidulant (a.) Nestling, as a bird in itss nest.
Nidulant (a.) Lying loose in pulp or cotton within a berry or pericarp, as in a nest.
Nidulated (imp. & p. p.) of Nidulate.
Nidulating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nidulate.
Nidulate (v. i.) To make a nest, as a bird.
Nidulation (n.) The time of remaining in the nest.
Nidulite (n.) A Silurian fossil, formerly supposed to consist of eggs.
nidi (n. pl. ) of Nidus.
Nidus (n.) A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.
Niece (n.) A relative, in general; especially, a descendant, whether male or female; a granddaughter or a grandson.
Niece (n.) A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.
Nief (n.) See Neif, the fist.
Niellist (n.) One who practices the style of ornamentation called niello.
Niello (n.) A metallic alloy of a deep black color.
Niello (n.) The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.
Niello (n.) A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.
Niello (n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.
Nifle (n.) A trifle.
Niggard (n.) A person meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser.
Niggard (a.) Like a niggard; meanly covetous or parsimonious; niggardly; miserly; stingy.
Niggard (v. t. & i.) To act the niggard toward; to be niggardly.
Niggardise (n.) Niggardliness.
Niggardish (a.) Somewhat niggard.
Niggardliness (n.) The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess.
Niggardly (a.) Meanly covetous or avarcious in dealing with others; stingy; niggard.
Niggardly (adv.) In a niggard manner.
Niggardness (n.) Niggardliness.
Niggardous (a.) Niggardly.
Niggardship (n.) Niggardliness.
Niggardy (n.) Niggardliness.
nigged (n.) Hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone.
Nigger (n.) A negro; -- in vulgar derision or depreciation.
Niggish (a.) Niggardly.
Niggled (imp. & p. p.) of Niggle.
Niggling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Niggle.
Niggle (v. t.) To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
Niggle (v. t.) To trifle or play.
Niggle (v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.
Niggle (v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.
Niggler (n.) One who niggles.
Nigh (a.) Not distant or remote in place or time; near.
The loud tumult shows the battle nigh. -- Prior.
Nigh (a.) Not remote in degree, kindred, circumstances, etc.; closely allied; intimate. "Nigh kinsmen." -- Knolles.
Ye . . . are made nigh by the blood of Christ. -- Eph. ii. 13.
Syn: Near; close; adjacent; contiguous; present; neighboring.
Nigh (adv.) In a situation near in place or time, or in the course of events; near.
He was sick, nigh unto death. -- Phil. ii. 27.
He drew not nigh unheard; the angel bright, Ere he drew nigh, his radiant visage turned. -- Milton.