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Nut

noun

Usually large hard-shelled seed.

Egyptian goddess of the sky.

A small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt.

Half the width of an em. Synonym: en.

A whimsically eccentric person. Synonyms: crackpot, crank, fruitcake, nut case, screwball.

Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction. Synonyms: addict, freak, junkie, junky. "A car nut" , "A bodybuilding freak" , "A news junkie"

One of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens. Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, egg, orchis, testicle, testis.

verb

(past & past part. nutted; pres. part. nutting)

Gather nuts.

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"Nut" Quotes from Famous Books

... after the Thanksgiving dinner, ask them all to join hands and form a ring. One is chosen out and is given a nut which he is to drop behind some child. As he walks around the outside ...

— Games for Everybody • May C. Hofmann

... "Nothin' but a hickory nut," said the chuckle again. But Hale had been studying that strange face. One side of it was calm, kindly, philosophic, benevolent; but, when the other was turned, a curious twitch of the muscles at the left ...

— The Trail of the Lonesome Pine • John Fox, Jr.

... storm lasted about fifteen minutes, doing an incalculable amount of damage to dwellings, foliage, &c. Hailstones came down in sizes from that of a hickory-nut to a large apple, some with such force as to drive them through ...

— Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms - Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence • T. Bassnett

... pulled in towards it, and, passing between the end of the lines of surf, found ourselves in a small bay lined with pure white sand, and here and there dark rocks rising up among it, while cocoa nut and other palm-trees came almost close down to the water's edge. I had never seen a prettier or more romantic spot. Here and there along the shore we caught glimpses of other similar bays. Scarcely a ripple broke on the beach, so we ran the boat up on the sand, and jumped on shore. Not ...

— My First Voyage to Southern Seas • W.H.G. Kingston

... said Father Jerome, "I am right glad that this young nut-cracker is going to leave me to my own meditation. I hate when a young person pretends to understand whatever passes, while his betters are obliged to confess that it is all a mystery to them. Such an assumption is like that of the conceited fool, sister Ursula, ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

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