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Nickel

noun

A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite. Synonyms: atomic number 28, Ni.

A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.

Five dollars worth of a drug. Synonym: nickel note. "A nickel deck of heroin"

verb

Plate with nickel.

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"Nickel" Quotes from Famous Books

... s'pose it feels to a man who's paid his own way since he was a boy, bought a farm with his own money an' run it, brought up his boys an' edyercated 'em—how do ye s'pose it feels fur that man ter go ter his own son an' say: 'Please, sir, can't I have a nickel ter buy me a pair o' shoestrings?' How do ye s'pose it feels? I tell ye, Hester, I can't stand it—I jest can't! I'm ...

— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter

... any event," I optimistically reflected, "I am a nickel in. If your dicta had emanated from a person in Peoria or Seattle, who hadn't bothered to read my masterpiece, they would have sounded exactly the same, and the clipping-bureau would have charged me five cents. Maybe I can't write verses, then. But I am quite sure I can groan." ...

— The Cords of Vanity • James Branch Cabell et al

... had any dinner to look forward to," said Carton. "Do you see this money?" and he produced a nickel from his pocket. ...

— Cast Upon the Breakers • Horatio Alger

... to dream. I spell out each night, before I sleep, some vast new far-off love, this new daily sense of mutual service, this whole round world to measure one's being against. Crowds wait on me in silence. I tip nations with a nickel. Who would believe it? I lie in my berth and laugh at ...

— The Voice of the Machines - An Introduction to the Twentieth Century • Gerald Stanley Lee

... would not be safe from recapture by the French cruisers, and were then making for the Solomons. But that they ever reached there is doubtful; or, if they did, they were probably eaten by the natives. The boat, we heard, they had captured from a German vessel loading nickel ore at one of north-eastern ports of New Caledonia, and they had then raided a small settlement on the coast and obtained some arms and provisions. Long afterwards I was told that their leader was a sailor who was serving a life sentence for killing his mistress ...

— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke

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