LekhoriLekhoriA small cut in a surface.
in the nick of time
Clipping of nickname.
a user’s reserved nick on an IRC network
A nix or nixie (“water spirit”).
[A]midst Ahriman and his hosts who had now established themselves in the Occident, and as heirs to the horns and tails of Pans and fauns, a crowd of native spirits moved; imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks, river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
I nicked myself while I was shaving.
A diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.
His name is Nick. I love it. It makes him seem nice, and regular, which he is. When he tells me his name, I say, 'Now, that's a real name.'
The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear ...
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To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
An Alluſion is as it were a dalliance or playing with words, like in ſound, vnlike in ſense, by changing, adding, or ſubtracting a letter or two; ſo that words nicking and reſembling one the other, are appliable to diffrent ſignifications.
To give or call (someone) by a nickname; to style.
For Warbecke as you nicke him, came to me / Commended by the States of Chriſtendome.