Crossword clues for nutshell
nutshell
- Ten hulls (anag)
- Squirrel's discard
- Place for brevity
- One makes a brief summary in one
- Kernel casing
- In a ____ (briefly)
- Few words, figuratively
- Barenaked Ladies "Life, in a ___"
- Almond cover, e.g
- Almond casing
- Where you’d find Hazel, briefly?
- Briefly cavorting in sun at hotspot
- Brazil's whereabouts, briefly?
- Home with aunt's turned out a nightmare, to put it briefly
- Summary holder?
- The shell around the kernel of a nut
- Covering for kernel
- It briefly holds story in crazy ordeal
- Invalid to capture article about Society in so small a place?
- In this, essentially head's torment
- Hard fruit covering
- Hard fruit casing
- Diminutive hard case headbutts man over £50
- Kernel holder
- Something to crack
- Model of brevity
- 'Holder' of a brief explanation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nutshell \Nut"shell`\, n.
The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
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(Zo["o]l.) 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 or To lie in a nutshell, to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement. ``The remedy lay in a nutshell.''
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 The shell that surrounds the kernel of a nut. 2 A short book summarizing an area of law. vb. (context transitive English) To summarize (from the term (term: in a nutshell)).
WordNet
n. the shell around the kernel of a nut
Wikipedia
"Nutshell" is a song by Alice in Chains that originally appeared on the band's 1994 critically acclaimed extended play Jar of Flies. "Nutshell" is also known for having opened the band's performance on MTV Unplugged in 1996. This rendition of the song was included on the compilation album Music Bank (1999), as well as The Essential Alice in Chains (2006).
A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut. Most nutshells are inedible and are removed before eating the nut meat inside.
Nutshell were a British Christian musical group, active from the early 1970s up to 1981.
A nutshell is the outer shell of a nut.
Nutshell may also refer to:
- Nutshell (band), the Christian folk group from Great Britain
- Nutshell on Wikipedia (WP:NUTSHELL)
- "Nutshell" (song), a song by Alice in Chains
- Nut graph, a nutshell paragraph
- The Nutshell, a pub in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
- "The Nutshell" (The Avengers), a television episode
Usage examples of "nutshell".
The only accompaniment came from another man with miniature cymbals made from hollowed nutshells on his thumbs and forefingers.
His life in a nutshell: always watching out for Nori, always responsible for her.
And that hitch of breath, it seemed to Dylan, was Arthur in a nutshell, making such show of a card unplayed that he tipped his whole hand.
The wool is incredibly durable, and the colors made from bark from Bhutan, green nutshells, and vegetable juices, remain fresh for ages.
The only accompaniment came from another man with miniature cymbals made from hollowed nutshells on his thumbs and forefingers.
He made out bits of nutshell scattered around the anvil stone, and even a few scraps of kernel.
In a nutshell, Evans-Tindale, like the Nunberg Act before it, redefines so-called cyberspace as a particular legal jurisdiction, and establishes a code of law governing these electronic transactions.
The floor was strewn with bits of the monks' leavings: nutshells, an apple core, scraps of slate roof tiles on which messages had been written in petty contravention of the silence vowsit looked more like a cage for apes or festival bears than a room where men of God came to sing the Lord's praises.
Next to us three young rowdies, albeit of good family, were throwing apple cores and nutshells on the heads below, and those in the pit threw them back.
Safe for the moment, the smaller male brandished a stick after him, achieving moral victory at low cost and healthy distance, then rummaged among the nutshells for bits of meat.
Trevor stood slowly up, fixed his large blue eyes upon me with a strange wild stare, and then pitched forward, with his face among the nutshells which strewed the cloth, in a dead faint.
Well, in a nutshell, I believe that Transition is the result of an interaction between the slowdown in brain growth and the spurt-and-decrease in the amount of lymphoid tissue, both of which occur approximately at puberty.
At the side of the road were piles of sawn nutshells, stacked like so many great bowls.
Most curiously of all, it appeared that she was both expecting and waiting for him, for as he rode towards her she turned on her perch to look towards him with a slow, confident smile of recognition and welcome, and when he was close she slid from the wail, brushing off the last nutshells, and shook down her skirts with the brisk movements of one making ready for action.
She was brown almost as her nutshells, with a warm rose-colour mantling beneath the tanned, smooth skin, and a mouth rose-red, and curled like the petals of a half-open rose.