NUTSHELLS

Noun

nutshells

plural of nutshell

Source: Wiktionary


NUTSHELL

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. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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