Vocabulary : Niche to Nickeliferous

Niche : A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
Niched : Placed in a niche.
Nick : 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.
Nickar nut : Alt. of Nickar tree
Nickar tree : Same as Nicker nut, Nicker tree.
Nicked : of Nick
Nickel : 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. ;; A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
Nickel steel : A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
Nickelic : 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.
Nickeliferous : Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
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