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Nut"-brown` (?), a. Brown as a nut
long kept and dried. "The spicy nutbrown ale."
Milton.

Nut"crack`er (?), n. 1.
An instrument for cracking nuts.

2. (Zoöl.) (a) A
European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie
and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on
nuts, seeds, and insects. (b) The
American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of
Western North America.

Nut"gall` (?), n. 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.

Nut"hatch` (?), n. [OE. nuthake.
See 2d Hack.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several
species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species
(Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S.


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