<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A dry fruit consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell.</li><li>The kernel itself.</li><li>Botany. A hard, indehiscent, one-seeded fruit, as the chestnut or the acorn.</li><li>Any of various devices or ornaments resembling a nut.</li><li>A block, usually of metal and generally square or hexagonal, perforated with a threaded hole so that it can be screwed down on a bolt to hold together objects through which the bolt passes.</li><li>Slang. The head.</li><li>Slang. A person who is very enthusiastic about something; buff; enthusiast; devotee: He's a real circus nut.</li><li>An extremely concerned or zealous person: My boss is a nut on double-checking everything.</li><li>Slang. A foolish, silly, or eccentric person.</li><li>An insane person; psychotic.</li><li>Slang: Vulgar. A testis.</li><li>Informal. The operating expenses, usually figured weekly, of a theatrical production or other commercial enterprise; a break-even point.</li><li>The total cost of producing a theatrical production or of forming and opening any new business venture.</li><li>Music. (In instruments of the violin family) the ledge, as of ebony, at the upper end of the fingerboard, over which the strings pass.</li><li>The movable piece at the lower end of the bow, by means of which the hairs may be slackened or tightened.</li><li>Printing. En (def 2).</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Buff-colored.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used without object) to seek for or gather nuts: to go nutting in late autumn.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>