Nut
[nʌt]
Definition
(noun.) a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt.
(noun.) Egyptian goddess of the sky.
(noun.) usually large hard-shelled seed.
(verb.) gather nuts.
Editor: Moore--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
(n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
(n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
(n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(v. i.) To gather nuts.
Checked by Irving
Definition
n. the name popularly given to all those fruits which have the seed enclosed in a bony woody or leathery pericarp not opening when ripe: (bot.) a one-celled fruit with a hardened pericarp containing when mature only one seed: often the hazel-nut sometimes the walnut: a small block of metal for screwing on the end of a bolt.—v.i. to gather nuts:—pr.p. nut′ting; pa.p. nut′ted.—adj. Nut′-brown brown like a ripe old nut.—ns. Nut′cracker an instrument for cracking nuts: a genus of birds of the family Corvid; Nut′-gall an excrescence chiefly of the oak; Nut′hatch a genus of birds of the family Sittid agile creepers—also Nut′jobber Nut′pecker; Nut′-hook a stick with a hook at the end for pulling down boughs that the nuts may be gathered: a bailiff a thief who uses a hook; Nut′meal meal made from the kernels of nuts; Nut′-oil an oil obtained from walnuts; Nut′-pine one of several pines with large edible seeds; Nut′shell the hard substance that encloses the kernel of a nut: anything of little value; Nut′ter one who gathers nuts; Nut′tiness; Nut′ting the gathering of nuts; Nut′-tree any tree bearing nuts esp. the hazel.—adj. Nut′ty abounding in nuts: having the flavour of nuts.—n. Nut′-wrench an instrument for fixing on nuts or removing them from screws.—A nut to crack a difficult problem to solve; Be nuts on (slang) to be very fond of; In a nutshell in small compass.
Checker: Paulette
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of gathering nuts, augurs successful enterprises, and much favor in love. To eat them, prosperity will aid you in grasping any desired pleasure. For a woman to dream of nuts, foretells that her fortune will be on blissful heights.
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Examples
- Yet the force of this mighty giant is so completely under control, and may be brought to act so gently, as scarcely to crack a nut placed to receive its fall. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In charging the apparatus, the interior, A, is nearly filled with water, or other liquid, through the opening, _f_, which is then closed by cork, which is kept in its place by a screw nut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He was a young man with a clear, hairless face, a long, thin nose, and rather nut-cracker jaws. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The teeth were never intended to take the place of nut-crackers nor to rival scissors in cutting thread. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The peanut, for example, contains 43% of fat, 30% of proteids, and only 17% of carbohydrates; the Brazil nut has 65% of fat, 17% of proteids, and only 9% of carbohydrates. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He's a nut, said Edgar Saunders. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The hard shell of the nut is polished and made into cups and other domestic utensils. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Did anybody ever find boiled mutton and caper-sauce growing in a cocoa-nut? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- A bolus the size of a hazel-nut three times a day. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Others, again, searched the surrounding trees for fruit, nuts, small birds, and eggs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- He's a fine place-kick, it's true, but then he has no judgment, and he can't sprint for nuts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, said Haley, after they had both silently picked their nuts for a season, what do you say? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Maurice, leaning forward with a sigh, took a handful of nuts, which he proceeded to crack in a listless fashion. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I call it pie, nuts, sugar-candy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Provision of oranges, apples, and nuts was also made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Why do I secretly give Miss Shepherd twelve Brazil nuts for a present, I wonder? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Do you care for nuts? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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