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Nosing. The projecting edge of a moulding "step," "tread," 

 or " drip." See " Scroll-step." 



Notch. See "Nick." 

 Notch-board. See " String-board." 



Nursery. A plantation or group of trees, mechanically trained, 

 attended, or nursed into regular order until they approach 

 maturity. 



Nursery-man. A person whose office it is to attend upon a 

 nursery of plants or young trees, also applied to the pro- 

 prietor of a business in which such are grown and sold. 



Nut Gall. An excrescence caused by insect action on oak trees, 

 otherwise called " oak galls," "gall nuts." 



Nut-tree. The hazel tree, Corylus avellana. Linnaeus found 

 this growing in a wild state in many woods and coppices 

 in Great Britain. The wood is employed for hoops, fishing- 

 rods, walking-sticks, crate making, and other purposes. 

 The nuts are articles of food, and produce oil little inferior 

 to olive oil. 



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Oak (Quercus). A genus of trees of the natural order Cupuliferoe, 

 bearing a round nut called an acorn, natives of temperate 

 and tropical countries. Europe produces a few species, but 

 many are found in America. It also grows in mountainous 

 districts of the torrid zone and at low elevations in the 

 Himalayas, while some even grow at the level of the sea 

 in the Malay Peninsula and Indian islands. None are found 

 in the peninsula of India, Ceylon, tropical Africa, Australia 

 or South America. See " Japanese Oak,'*" " Evergreen or 

 Holm Oak," " Red Oak," " Scarlet Oak," " Willow Oak," 

 "Turkey Oak " others, not here noted, as "Austrian 

 Oak " (Q. Austriaca) ; " Spanish Oak " (Q. Hispanica). 

 The name " oak " is sometimes popularly applied to trees 

 of a different genera, as for instance " African Oak," which 

 is another name for African teak. In like manner the 

 " Swamp Oak " of Australia is an alias for beef- wood ; the 

 Stone Oak of Java is specifically the Lithocarpus juvenensis. 



Oak Apple. See " Nut Gall." 



