(n.) An evil spirit of the waters.
(n.) A notch cut into something
(n.) A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
(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.
(n.) A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in
china.
(n.) A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick;
the exact point or critical moment.
(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.
(v. t.) To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or
notches in.
(v. t.) To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to
tally with.
(v. t.) To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at
the precise point or time.
(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).
(v. t.) To nickname; to style.
