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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nick \Nick\ (n[i^]k), noun [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. ni'ptein to wash, Skr. nij. Cf. {Nix}.] (Northern Myth.) An evil spirit of the waters.
{Old Nick}, the evil one; the devil. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nick \Nick\, noun [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.
2. Hence: A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; as, nicks in a china plate; a nick in the table top.
3. 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 gaining of a point. --L'Estrange.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nick \Nick\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Nicked} (n[i^]kt); 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; to create a nick[2] in, deliberately or accidentally; as, to nick the rim of a teacup. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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 it higher).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nick \Nick\, verb (used with an object) To nickname; to style. [Obs.]
For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me. --Ford.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
nick
noun
1: an impression in a surface (as made by a blow) [syn: {dent}, {gouge}]
2: a small cut [syn: {notch}, {snick}]
verb
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "nick": Vandyke, appropriate, arrest, ascender, back, bastard type, beard, beat it, belly, bevel, birthmark, black letter, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, body, brand, cabbage, cap, capital, case, cast, caste mark, chalk, chalk up, check, check off, checkmark, chip, chop, cicatrix, cicatrize, cleft, clout, collar, counter, crap, craps, crena, crenellate, crenulate, crimp, cut, dapple, dash, defect, define, delimit, demarcate, dent, depart, depression, descender, discolor, discoloration, dot, earmark, em, en, engrave, engraving, face, fat-faced type, feet, flaw, fleck, flick, font, freckle, gash, gouge, graving, groove, hack, hatch, hook, impress, imprint, incise, incision, indent, indentation, indenture, italic, jag, jog, joggle, jot, kerf, knurl, lentigo, letter, ligature, line, logotype, lower case, machicolate, macula, majuscule, make a mark, make off with, make tracks, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, mill, minuscule, mole, mottle, nab, nail, natural, nevus, nip, nock, notch, patch, pencil, pepper, pi, pica, picot, pinch, pink, point, police station, polka dot, prick, print, punch, punctuate, puncture, purloin, riddle, roll, roman, sans serif, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, script, seal, seam, serrate, shank, shot, shoulder, slash, small cap, small capital, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stamp, steal, stem, stigma, stigmatize, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, take, take in, take off, tattoo, tattoo mark, throw, tick, tick off, tittle, tooth, trace, type, type body, type class, type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry, underline, underscore, upper case, watermark
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
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}]
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