| Pronunciation: | | 'nutshel
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| | Definition: | | [n] the shell around the kernel of a nut |
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| | See Also: | | shell |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Nut"shell`\, n.
1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of
a nut is inclosed.
2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
{To} {be, or lie}, {in a nutshell}, to be within a small
compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or
statement. ``The remedy lay in a nutshell.'' --Macaulay.
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