To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic.
To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
To make a cut at the side of the face.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To steal.
To arrest.
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
A police station or prison.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.