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1. n. A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
2. n. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
3. n. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
4. n. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
5. n. five dollars worth of a drug
6. v. plate with nickel
7. 1. (Chem.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6. Note: On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver. It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron. 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] Nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan.
8. A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the irongroup, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined withsulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and witharsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
9. n:100 n. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite n. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar n. five dollars worth of a drug v. plate with nickel