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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.

Pertaining to Rome and papal power. [Obs.] The . . . injurious nickname of Babylonish. Gape.

Wisconsin; -- a nickname.

Massachusetts, which had been called the Colony of Massachusetts Bay; -- a nickname.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

Arkansas; -- a nickname, from the many bears once inhabiting its forests.

Oregon; -- a nickname.

Tennessee; -- a nickname.

Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

d be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.

The Sate of Kentucky; -- a nickname alluding to the blue-grass region, where fine horses are bred.

A nickname for a Nova Scotian.

A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

A nickname. Camden.

To give a nickname to. Camden.

ed Christians or Disciples of Christ. They themselves repudiate the term Campbellite as a nickname. See Christian, 3.

Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

A familiar nickname or substitute for Charles.

Washington -- a nickname. See Chinook, n.

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