Nick

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