| Nick 1. (n.) An evil spirit of the waters. 2. (n.) A notch cut into something 3. (n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. 4. (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. 5. (n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china. 6. (n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment. 7. (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. 8. (v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in. 9. (v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. 10. (v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. 11. (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 it higher). 12. (v. t.) To nickname; to style. Thesaurus Entries 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 |