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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

... that would be both intelligent and attractive, if it weren't so subservient. But I've a floaty sort of feeling that this same maid knows a little more than she lets on to know, and I'm wondering what western life will do to her. In one year's time, I'll wager a plugged nickel against an English sovereign, she'll not be sedately and patiently dining at second-table and murmuring "Yes, me Lady" in that meek and obedient manner. But it fairly took my breath, the adroit and expeditious manner in which Struthers had that welter of luggage unstrapped and unbuckled ...

— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer

... wasn't prejudiced wan way or another. 'At this time,' says the book, 'an ivint happened that was destined to change th' whole coorse iv our hero's life. Wan day, while in a sthreet car, where he lay dozin' fr'm dhrink, he awoke to see a beautiful woman thryin' to find a nickel in a powder puff. Th' brutal conductor towered over her, an' it was more thin th' Gin'ral cud bear. Risin' to his feet, with an oath, he pulled th' rope iv th' fare register an' ...

— Mr. Dooley Says • Finley Dunne

... it!" and the man's voice broke, and a big tear rolled down his cheek and splashed on a dingy nickel. ...

— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... been taken down with the utmost care. No one was permitted to help except white-haired Nickel, the old head packer, who often let a whole day pass without opening his lips; for Herr Ernst seemed to lay great stress upon keeping the moon's influence on Eva a secret. There was indeed something uncanny ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... all the tortures and delights of love. But he is still sent by his mother on errands of the most humiliating sort and depends on his father for every nickel, the use of which he must justify before ...

— The Ghost Breaker - A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts • Paul Dickey

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