Defn: The European woodpecker, or yaffle; — called also nicker pecker.
NICKNACK
Nick"nack`, n.
Defn: See Knickknack.
NICKNACKERY
Nick"nack`er*y, n.
Defn: See Knickknackery.
NICKNAME Nick"name`, n. Etym: [OE. ekename surname, hence, a nickname, an ekename being understood as a nekename, influenced also by E. nick, v. See Eke, and Name.]
Defn: A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
NICKNAME
Nick"name`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nicknamed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Nicknaming.]
Defn: To give a nickname to; to call by a nickname.
You nickname virtue; vice you should have spoke. Shak.
I altogether disclaim what has been nicknamed the doctrine of
finality. Macaulay.
NICOLAITAN Ni`co*la"i*tan, n. Etym: [So called from Nicolas of Antioch, mentioned in Acts vi. 5.] (Eccl. Hist.)