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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Nick \Nick\, 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. ? to wash, Skr. nij. Cf. {Nix}.]
(Northern Myth.)
An evil spirit of the waters.
{Old Nick}, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.]
Nick \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.
(c) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface;
nicks in china.
2. A particular point or place considered as marked by a
nick; the exact point or critical moment.
To cut it off in the very nick. --Howell.
This nick of time is the critical occasion for the
gainger of a point. --L'Estrange.
Nick \Nick\, v. t.
To nickname; to style. [Obs.]
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. --Ford.
Nick \Nick\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Nicked}; 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.
2. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or
notches in.
And thence proceed to nicking sashes. --Prior.
The itch of his affection should not then Have
nicked his captainship. --Shak.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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).
资料来源 : WordNet®
nick
n 1: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: {dent},
{gouge}]
2: a small cut [syn: {notch}, {snick}]
nick
v 1: cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his
cheek" [syn: {snick}]
2: cut a nick into [syn: {chip}]
3: divide or reset the tail muscles of; "nick horses"
4: mate successfully; of livestock
资料来源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
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}.
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