NUT
NUT, noun [It seems to be allied to knot, a bunch or hard lump.]1. The fruit of certain trees and shrubs, consisting of a hard shell inclosing a kernel. A nut is properly the pe...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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NUT-BREAKER
NUT-BREAKER. [See Nutcracker.]NUT'-BROWN, adjective Brown as a nut long kept and dried.NUT'-CRACKER, noun1. An instrument for cracking nuts.2. A bird of the genus Corvus; the nu...
NUT-HATCH
NUT'-HATCH, noun The common name of birds of the genus sitta. The common European nut-hatch is called also nut-jobber and nut-pecker.NUT'-HOOK, noun A pole with a hook at the en...
NUTATION
NUTA'TION, noun [Latin, a nodding, to nod.] In astronomy, a kind of tremulous motion of the axis of the earth, by which in its annual revolution it is twice inclined to the ecli...
NUTGALL
NUT'GALL, noun An excrescence of the oak.
NUTMEG
NUT'MEG, noun [Latin But it may be questionable whether the last syllable in English, meg, is not from Latin, mace, the bark that envelops the nut.] The fruit of a tree of the g...
NUTRICATION
NUTRICA'TION, noun Manner of feeding or being fed. [Not in use.]
NUTRIENT
NU'TRIENT, adjective [Latin] Nourishing; promoting growth.NU'TRIENT, noun Any substance which nourishes by promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies.
NUTRIMENT
NU'TRIMENT, noun [Latin, from to nourish.]1. That which nourishes; that which promotes the growth or repairs the natural waste of animal bodies, or that which promotes the growt...
NUTRIMENTAL
NUTRIMENT'AL, adjective Having the qualities of food; alimental.
NUTRITION
NUTRI'TION, noun [Latin, to nourish.]1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables....
NUTRITIOUS
NUTRI'TIOUS, adjective Nourishing; promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies. Milk is very nutritious
NUTRITIVE
NU'TRITIVE, adjective Having the quality of nourishing; nutrimental; alimental; as a nutritive food.
NUTRITURE
NU'TRITURE, noun The quality of nourishing. [Not used.]NUT'-SHELL, noun1. The hard shell of a nut; the covering of the kernel.2. Proverbially, a thing of little compass or of li...
NUZZLE
NUZ'ZLE, verb transitive [qu. from noursle.] To nurse; to foster. [Vulgar.]NUZZLE, verb transitive [qu. from nose or noursle.] To hide the head, as a child in the mother's bosom...
NYCTALOPS
NYC'TALOPS, noun [Gr., night and the eye.]1. One that sees best in the night.2. One who loses his sight as night comes on, and remains blind till morning.
NYCTALOPY
NYC'TALOPY, noun1. The faculty of seeing best in darkness, or the disorder from which this faculty proceeds.2. In present usage, the disorder in which the patient loses his sigh...
NYE
NYE, noun A brood or flock of pheasants.
NYLGAU
NYL'GAU, noun A quadruped of the genus Bos, a native of the interior of India, of a middle size between the cow and the deer. Its body, horns and tail are not unlike those of a ...
NYMPH
NYMPH, noun1. In mythology, a goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows and waters. According to the ancients, all the world was full of nymphs, some terrestrial, others celest...
NYMPHA
NYMPH'A, noun Another name of the pupa, chrysalis, or aurelia; the second state of an insect, passing to its perfect form.
NYMPHEAN
NYMPHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to nymphs; inhabited by nymphs; as a nymphean cave.
NYMPHICAL
NYMPH'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to nymphs.
NYMPHISH
NYMPH'ISH, adjective Relating to nymphs; lady-like.
NYMPHLIKE
NYMPH'LIKE, adjective Resembling nymphs.
NYMPHLY
NYMPH'LY, adjective Resembling nymphs.
NYS
NYS, [ne and is.] None is; is not.