nick to cut in nicks or notches:
“nicks him like a fool,”
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, v. 1.
175
; cuts his hair in nicks or notches, as was formerly done to fools (who
“were shaved and nicked in a particular manner in our author's time,”
MALONE)
,
“nick'd his captainship”
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, iii. 13.
8.
（
“set the mark of folly on it,”
STEEVENS
; cited in Johnson's Dict. under“Nick” in the sense of
“Defeat, cozen,” ; etc.),
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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