Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nim \Nim\ (n[i^]m), v. t. [imp. Nam (n[aum]m) or Nimmed
(n[i^]md); p. p. Nomen (n[=o]"men) or Nome (n[=o]m).]
[AS. niman. [root]7. Cf. Nimble.]
To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]
This canon it in his hand nam. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nim
n 1: 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