About The Word Nit
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Nit
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What's The Definition Of Nit?
[n] egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
[n] a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source Synonyms | Synonyms for Nit: Related Terms | Find terms related to Nit: adverse criticism | animadversion | aspersion | bad notices | bad press | captiousness | carping | cat flea | cavil | caviling | censoriousness | chigoe | cockroach | crab | criticism | dog flea | exception | faultfinding | flak | flea | grayback | hairsplitting | hit | home thrust | hostile criticism | hypercriticalness | hypercriticism | imputation | jigger | knock | louse | mite | nagging | nay | niggle | niggling | nit-picking | nix | no | nope | obloquy | overcriticalness | parasite | pestering | pettifogging | priggishness | quibble | quibbling | rap | red bug | reflection | reproachfulness | roach | sand flea | slam | stricture | swipe | taking exception | trichoschistism | vermin | weevil See Also | egg | luminance unit Nit In Webster's Dictionary \Nit\, n. [AS. hnitu; akin to D. neet, G. niss, OHG. niz;
cf. gr. ?, ?, Icel. gnit, Sw. gnet, Dan. gnid, Russ. & Pol.
gnida, Bohem. hnida, W. nedd.] (Zo["o]l.)
The egg of a louse or other small insect.
{Nit grass} (Bot.), a pretty annual European grass
({Gastridium lendigerum}), with small spikelets somewhat
resembling a nit. It is also found in California and
Chili.
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