Definitions of nick

The word "nick" uses 4 letters: cikn.

n. - An evil spirit of the waters. ²

n. - A notch cut into something ²

n. - A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. ²

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. ²

n. - A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china. ²

n. - A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. ²

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 mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. ²

v. t. - To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. ²

v. t. - To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. ²

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). ²

v. t. - To nickname; to style. ²