a creator, Worshiped at Sais, Nit has creation, war, and weaving influences She also serves a protective funerary role, sometimes taking the place that Nebthet serves in Wesir's funerary preparation Nit is also sought out for wisdom in myth, during the contendings of Heru (Horus) and Set, where she adjudicates that the throne of Wesir go to his son and Heir, Heru-Sa-Aset Further reading on Nit: • The House of Netjer's Glossary of Names
egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
disapproval If you refer to someone as a nit, you think they are stupid or silly. I'd rather leave the business than work with such a nit. = nitwit, twit. A unit of illuminative brightness equal to one candle per square meter, measured perpendicular to the rays of the source