Index of English words, starting with "ni"

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

(1) - Nickel (n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
(2) - Nickel (n.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.

(1) - Nickelic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.

(1) - Nickeliferous (a.) Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.