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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Nit \Nit\ (n[i^]t), noun [AS. hnitu; akin to D. neet, G. niss, OHG. niz; cf. Gr. koni's, koni'dos, 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 Chile.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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