noun. A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an edge or a surface.

noun. A prison or police station.

noun. A groove down the side of a piece of type used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To cut a nick or notch in.

transitive verb. To cut into and wound slightly.

transitive verb. To cut short; check.

transitive verb. To cheat, especially by overcharging.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To steal.

transitive verb. To arrest.

idiom. (in the nick of time) Just at the critical moment; just in time.

To make a nick or notch in; notch; cut or mark with nicks or notches.

To sever with a snip or single cut, as with shears.

To cut short; abridge. See nick, n., 3.

To break or crack; smash as the nickers used to do. See nicker, 2.

In coal-mining, to cut (the coal) on the side, after kirving, holing, or undercutting.

noun. The devil: usually with the addition of Old.

To strike or hit right; hit or hit upon exactly; fit into; suit.

In gaming, to throw or turn up; hit or hit upon.

To delude or deceive; cozen; cheat, as at dice.

To catch in the act.

To fit; unite or combine; be adapted for combining: said, in stock-breeding, of the crossing of one strain of blood with another.

To suit; compare; be comparable.

In the game of hazard, to throw a winning number. Compare nick, n., 3.

To bet; gamble.

To nickname; hence, to annoy or tease by nicknaming.

To nod; wink.

noun. A hollow cut or slight depression made in the surface of anything; a notch.

noun. A score or reckoning: so called from the old practice of keeping reckonings on tallies or notched sticks.

noun. A false bottom in a beer-can, by which customers were cheated, the nick below and the froth above filling up part of the measure.

noun. In craps, a throw of 7 or 11, which wins all the stakes for the caster immediately.

noun. In type-founding, a small groove, made by the mold on the front side and lower part of the body of American type.

noun. In violin-making, one of the little notches cut midway in the side of an f-hole or sound-hole, to indicate the proper location for the bridge.

noun. In lumbering, same as undercut, 2.

noun. Point, especially point of time: as, in the nick of—that is, on the point of (being or doing something).

noun. The exact point (of time) which accords with or is demanded by the necessities of the case; the critical or right moment; the very moment: used chiefly in the phrases in the nick or in the nick of time—that is, at the right moment, just when most needed or demanded.

noun. A lucky or winning throw in the game of hazard: as, eleven is the nick to seven. See hazard, 1.

transitive verb. To nickname; to style.

noun. An evil spirit of the waters.

noun. the evil one; the devil.

transitive verb. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks

transitive verb. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to create a nick{2} in, deliberately or accidentally.

transitive verb. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

transitive verb. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.

transitive verb. 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).

noun. A notch cut into something.

noun. A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.

noun. A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.

noun. A broken or indented place in any edge or surface.