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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.

Brown as a nut long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale." Milton.

Nodding; having the top bent downward.

The act of nodding. So from the midmost the nutation spreads, Round and more round, o'er all the sea of heads. Pope.

The European nuthatch.

An instrument for cracking nuts.

A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of those produced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.

of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmæa), and others, are American.

A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering the nuts.

The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

A small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the tropics.

Seasoned with nutmeg.

The nuthatch.

The fur of the coypu. See Coypu.

The act or manner of feeding. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Nutritious; nourishing; promoting growth. -- n.

vegetable life; food; aliment. The stomach returns what it has received, in strength and nutriment diffused into all parts of the body. South.

Nutritious.

Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritious. [Obs.] Chapman.