Word Meanings - NICKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. Arbuthnot. 2. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole
Additional info about word: NICKER
1. One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. Arbuthnot. 2. The cutting lip which projects downward at the edge of a boring bit and cuts a circular groove in the wood to limit the size of the hole that is bored.
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- NOTOTHERIUM
An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia. - NIGHT-FARING
Going or traveling in the night. Gay. - NOTUM
The back. - BORDEAUX MIXTURE
A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - CIRCULARLY
In a circular manner. - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - NIGHTMAN
One whose business is emptying privies by night. - NOTHINGNESS
1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - BOREAL
Northern; pertaining to the north, or to the north wind; as, a boreal bird; a boreal blast. So from their own clear north in radiant streams, Bright over Europe bursts the boreal morn. Thomson. - BORDAGE
The base or servile tenure by which a bordar held his cottage. - LONDONISM
A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London. - CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - BORDURE
A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged. - BORON
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - NOTELET
A little or short note; a billet. - KNIGHTLESS
Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser. - MONOTESSARON
A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. - ALLNIGHT
Light, fuel, or food for the whole night. Bacon. - HYPNOTIC
1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - PHONOTYPY
A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character. - UNKNIGHT
To deprive of knighthood. Fuller. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - MONOTHALAMAN
A foraminifer having but one chamber. - CORROBOREE
1. A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians. 2. A song or chant made for such a festivity. 3. A - LABOR-SAVING
Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - MONOTONE
A single unvaried tone or sound. - HUGUENOTISM
The religion of the Huguenots in France.