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Nut"hook` (?), n. 1.
A hook at the end of a pole to pull down boughs for gathering
the nuts.

2. A thief who steals by means of a hook;
also, a bailiff who hooks or seizes malefactors.
Shak.

Nut"job`ber (?), n. (Zoöl.)
The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]

Nut"let (?), n. (Bot.) A
small nut; also, the stone of a drupe.

Nut"meg (?), n. [OE. notemuge;
note nut + OF. muge musk, of the same origin as E.
musk; cf. OF. noix muguette nutmeg, F. noix
muscade. See Nut, and Musk.] (Bot.) The
kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans), a
native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewhere in the
tropics.

&fist; This fruit is a nearly spherical drupe, of the size of a
pear, of a yellowish color without and almost white within.


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