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Nukit, Nuikit, a. Also: nukeit, nukkit; nuickit, nuiked, nwikit; nowket; nooket, -ed, nook'd. [ME. (once) (feower) noked (Layamon) and 17th c. Eng. nouked (1610), nooked (1632), nookt (1640); f. Nuk(e n. Cf. Neukit.]

1. Having corners or angular projections; peaked. 1542 Inv. Wardrobe 66.
Twa ringis with tabill dyamonttis, ane of thame nukit 1543 Ib. 111
Twa nukit trunscheoris of silver owrgilt, with saltfattis in the nukis of thame

2. In four-, thre-nukit, having four, three, corners or angular projections: see also Four-nukit, thre-nukit, s.v. Thre num. C b. 1584 Glasgow B. Rec. I. 107.
Ane four nukkit taiblat 1611 Reg. Panmure I. xciv.
Ane quadrat or four nowket breist plat on thear breist 1629 Boyd Last B. 25.
This grace shall be … like as a foure nooked clauer

b. (Four-)nukit bonet (cap), a square cap, especially as worn by Roman Catholic and Episcopalian clergy.(1) 1567 G. Ball. 195.
Preistis … Ȝour nukit bonet put away a1578 Pitsc. II. 144/1.
Thair durst nocht … ane bischope weir ane nwikit bonnett a1689 Cleland 88.
Nook'd caps and cow'd heads(2) 1604 Chron. Perth 70.
[He] would wear an surplice and an four nooket bonnet 1662 Nicoll Diary 366.
The Archebischop of St. Androis sat thair covered with his episcopall cap or four nukit bonat 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 10.
Then came the chanoins of the church of Sainct Croix in their white surplices above their black gounes and their 4 nooked caps a1691 Kingston Contin. Ho. Seytoun 64.
In his lawer gown and four nooked cape, as lawers use to pass their tryalls in the universities abroad