Category: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. (zoöl.)

Defn: a shell of the genus nucula. To be, or 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.