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--- ../../gcide-0.44-orig/cide.n Sat May 26 17:30:13 2001
+++ cide.n Sun Jun 3 16:49:45 2001
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
<p><sn>2.</sn> <def>Very small; submicroscopic; -- used to designate sizes smaller than those that would be referred to as <contr>micro-</contr>; <as>as, <ex>nano</ex>scale manipulations</as>.</def><br/
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>
-<p><hw>nan"o*tech*nol`o*gy</hw> <pr>(n<acr/n"<osl/*t<ecr/k*n<ocr/l`<osl/*j<emac/)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller.</def> <note>Objects of the size of molecules may be moved and placed in specific locations using <uses>laser tweezers</uses> or an <uses>atomic force microscope</uses>. See <a href="http://21net.com/content/inside_se/nano.htm>nanotechnology</a>.</note><br/
+<p><hw>nan"o*tech*nol`o*gy</hw> <pr>(n<acr/n"<osl/*t<ecr/k*n<ocr/l`<osl/*j<emac/)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>The manipulation or construction of objects with sizes in the nanometer range or smaller.</def> <note>Objects of the size of molecules may be moved and placed in specific locations using <uses>laser tweezers</uses> or an <uses>atomic force microscope</uses>.</note><br/
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>
<p><hw>Nan"pie</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The magpie.</def><br/
@@ -12911,7 +12911,7 @@
<p><sn>3.</sn> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A shell of the genus Nucula.</def><br/
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>
-<p><cs><col><b>in a nutshell</b></col> <cd>in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; <as>as, to describe the convention <ex>in a nutshell</ex></as>.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>To be in a nutshell</b></col> <it>or</it> <col><b>To lie in a nutshell</b></col>, <col><b></b></col></mcol>, <cd>to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement.</cd> \'bdThe remedy <xex>lay in a nutshell</xex>.\'b8 <rj><au>Macaulay.</au></rj></cs><br/
+<p><cs><col><b>in a nutshell</b></col> <cd>in a summarized and very abbreviated form; -- of statments, descriptions, reports, and other communications; <as>as, to describe the convention <ex>in a nutshell</ex></as>.</cd> -- <mcol><col><b>To be in a nutshell</b></col> <it>or</it> <col><b>To lie in a nutshell</b></col></mcol>, <cd>to be within a small compass; to admit of very brief or simple determination or statement.</cd> \'bdThe remedy <xex>lay in a nutshell</xex>.\'b8 <rj><au>Macaulay.</au></rj></cs><br/
[<source>1913 Webster</source> <source>+PJC</source>]</p>
<p><hw>Nut"ter</hw> <pr>(?)</pr>, <pos>n.</pos> <def>A gatherer of nuts.</def><br/
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