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An evil spirit of the waters. |
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A notch cut into something |
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A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. |
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A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a
compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution. |
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A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in
china. |
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A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick;
the exact point or critical moment. |
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To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or
upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. |
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To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or
notches in. |
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To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to
tally with. |
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To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at
the precise point or time. |
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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). |
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To nickname; to style. |