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An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.

as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires or plugs (called conductor plugs).

A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

Alabama; -- a nickname.

South Dakota; -- a nickname.

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

Georgia; -- a nickname. See Cracker, n. 5.

(Pronounced kra`po") As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

Louisiana; -- a nickname. See Creole, n. & a.

A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent. [U. S.]

Same as Dornick.

Delaware; -- a nickname alluding to its small size.

A contemptuous nickname for a timid, yielding politician, or one who is easily molded. [Political cant, U. S.]

A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. [Obs.] Cartwright.

An additional or epithet name; a nickname. [Obs.]

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.…

f chemical decomposition, by the action of electricity; as, the electrolysis of silver or nickel for plating; the electrolysis of water.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.