nick
Speech parts
1. nick - Noun
2. nick - Verb
3. Nick - Proper noun
Meaning
An evil spirit of the waters.
A notch cut into something
A score for keeping an account; a reckoning.
A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in china.
A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc.
To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
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).
To nickname; to style.
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The lyrics are different from Nick Cave songs and lyrics. His songs are very narrative.
Harry Dresden: Santa is a much bigger and more powerful faery than Toot, and I don't know his true name anyway. You'd never see me trying to nab Saint Nick in a magic circle even if I did. I don't think anyone has stones that big.
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment to toe that line.
Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.
I agree with Nick.
I remember the last time we were in the studio that Nick (Mason) ripped this fart. It was one of the most atrocious things the others had ever smelled in their lives. While Roger and Rick fled in terror, I asked Nick for seconds.