nittings (nitingz)

pl. Small particles of lead ore. nitty1 (nit'i), a. [ [Origin obscure.] [North. Eng.] -y1.] Full of nits; I'll know the poor, egregious, nitty rascal. B. Jonson, Poetaster, iii. 1. nitty2+ (nit'i), a. [A var. of netty , now natty , perhaps simulating nitid , nitid us , the ult. source of all these forms.] Shining; elegant; spruce. O dapper, rare, compleate, sweet nittie youth! IMG:content-1403.png:[blocks in formation] 4001 The Scotch water-kelpie is a good or bad. wicked nix. Also written nis . nix2 (niks), п. [ Nizes is a term used in the railway mail service to denote matter of domestic origin, chiefly of the first and second cla , which is unmailable because addre ed to places which are not post-offices, or to States, etc., in which there is no such post office as that indicated in the addre . U. S. Official P. O. Guide , Jan., 1886, p. 685. nix3 (niks), interj . [Prob. another application of nix2, 1.] An exclamation of alarm used by thieves, street Arabs, and others: as, nix , the bobby! (policeman). [Slang, Eng.] nixie, nixyl (nik'si), n.; pl. nixies (-siz). [Dim. of nix1 , or directly nire (OHG. nicche a ) , fem. of nix , a water-sprite: see nix1 .] Same as nix1 . She who sits by haunted well Is subject to the Nixies ' spell. Scott , Pirate, xxviii. IMG:content-1404.png:[blocks in formation] I eased in Asia the Nizam Of a monstrous brood of vampyre-bats. Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, vi. 2. sing. and pl . A soldier or the soldiers of the Turkish regular army. The Nizam , or Regulars, had not been paid for seven months, and the Arnauts could scarcely sum up what was owing to them. R. F. Burton , El-Medinah, p. 487.