Nutshell
Pronunciation : Nut"shell`
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The shell or hard external covering in which the kernel of a nut is inclosed.
2. Hence, a thing of little compass, or of little value.
3. (Zo?l.)
Defn: A shell of the genus Nucula. To be, or 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913