nim : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: nim	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
nim n game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Nim \Nim\, v. t. [imp. {Nam}or {Nimmed}; p. p. {Nomen}or {Nome}.] [AS. niman. [root] 7. Cf. {Nimble}.] To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.] This canon it in his hand nam. --Chaucer.