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Nicolaitans The followers of Nicolaus (second century). They were Gnostics in doctrine and Epicureans in practice.

Nicolas (See Nicholas .)

Nicor (A). A sea-devil, in Scandinavian mythology, who eats sailors.

“My brother saw a nicor in the Northern sea. It was three fathoms long, with the body of a bison-bull, and the head of a cat, the beard of a man, and tusks an ell long, lying down on its breast. It was watching for the fishermen.”- Kingsley: Hypatia, chap. xii.

Nicotine (3 syl.) is so named from Jean Nicot, Lord of Villemain, who purchased some tobacco at Lisbon in 1560, introduced it into France, and had the honour of fixing his name on the plant. Our word tobacco is from the Indian tabaco (the tube used by the Indians for inhaling the smoke).