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Nit   /nɪt/   Listen
Nit

noun
1.
A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source.
2.
Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing.



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"Nit" Quotes from Famous Books



... in fit Terms—having struggled from its nit, Was seized on by a swarm of Scotchmen Those scientifical hotch-potch men, Who have at least a penny dip, And wallop in all doctorship, Just as in making broth they smatter By bobbing twenty things in water: These men, I say, made quick appliance And close, to phrenologic science; For of all ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood


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