Nutshell

Definition of 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.(Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
in a nutshell
in a summarized and very abbreviated form; - of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; as, to describe the convention in a nutshell.
To be in a nutshell
to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement.
- Macaulay.

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