Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Nutshell \Nut"shell`\, n.
     1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of
        a nut is inclosed.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Zool.) A shell of the genus Nucula.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {in a nutshell} in a summarized and very abbreviated form; --
        of statments, descriptions, reports, and other
        communications; as, to describe the convention in a
        nutshell.
  
     {To be in a nutshell} or {To 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.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  in a nutshell
      adv : summed up briefly; "gave the facts in a nutshell"; "just
            tell me the story in a nutshell"; "explained the
            situation in a nutshell"

From English-German Freedict dictionary [fd-eng-deu]:

  in a nutshell [inənʌtʃl]
     kurz zusammengefasst
  

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