Chapter Nutant to Nyula of N by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Nutritional
(Nu*tri"tion*al) a. Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, nutritional changes.

Nutritious
(Nu*tri"tious) a. [L. nutricius, nutritius, from nutrix, -icis, a nurse, nutrire to nourish. See Nurse, Nourish.] Nourishing; promoting growth, or preventing decay; alimental. — Nu*tri"tious*ly, adv. — Nu*tri"tious*ness, n.

Nutritive
(Nu"tri*tive) a. [Cf. F. nutritif.] Of or pertaining to nutrition; as, the nutritive functions; having the quality of nourishing; nutritious; nutrimental; alimental; as, nutritive food or berries.

Nutritive plasma. (Biol.) See Idioplasma. — Nutritive polyp (Zoöl.), any one of the zooids of a compound hydroid, or coral, which has a mouth and digestive cavity.

— Nu"tri*tive*ly, adv. — Nu"tri*tive*ness, n.

Nutriture
(Nu"tri*ture) n. [L. nutritura, fr. nutrir to nourish.] Nutrition; nourishment. [Obs.] Harvey.

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.) A shell of the genus Nucula.

Tobe, 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.

Nutter
(Nut"ter) n. A gatherer of nuts.

Nutting
(Nut"ting) n. The act of gathering nuts.

Nutty
(Nut"ty) a.

1. Abounding in nuts.

2. Having a flavor like that of nuts; as, nutty wine.

Nux vomica
(Nux` vom"i*ca) [NL., fr. L. nux nut + vomere to vomit.] The seed of Strychnos Nuxvomica, a tree which abounds on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.

Nuzzle
(Nuz"zle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Nuzzied ;p. pr. & vb. n. Nuzzling ] [See Noursle.]

1. To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.]

The people had been nuzzled in idolatry.

Milton.

2. [Perh. a corruption of nestle. Cf. Nustle.] To nestle; to house, as in a nest.

Nuzzle
(Nuz"zle) v. i. [Dim. fr. nose. See Nozzle.]

1. To work with the nose, like a swine in the mud.

And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine
Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin.

Shak.

He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud.

Arbuthnot.