nim

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. Archaic To steal; pilfer.
2. n. A game in which players in turn remove small objects from a collection, such as matchsticks arranged in rows, and attempt to take, or avoid taking, the last one.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To take; take in the hands; Jay hold of, in order to move, carry, or use. In the general sense ‘take,’ and in the various particular senses exhibited below and in the principal uses of take, nim was formerly in very common use, being the general Teutonic term for ‘take.’ In Middle English nim was gradually superseded by take, which is properly Scandinavian.
2. To seize; seize upon; take away; remove; take unlawfully; filch; steal.
3. To conduct; lead.
4. To take to one's self; receive; accept; have.
5. To take: used in phrases corresponding in sense and nearly in form to ‘take the road,’ ‘take leave,’ ‘take advice,’ ‘take care,’ etc.
6. To begin.
7. To take; betake one's self; go.
8. To steal.
9. n. The margosa. See Melia. Also spelled neem.

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To take (in all senses); to seize.
2. v. obsolete, intransitive To take one's way; to go.
3. v. archaic, slang, transitive To filch, steal.
4. v. intransitive To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
5. n. A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To take; to steal; to filch.

WordNet 3.0

1. 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