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.