''snails :: 'Snails (interj.) God's nails, or His nails, that is, the nails with which the Savior was fastened to the cross; -- an ancient form of oath, corresponding to 'Od's bodikins (dim. of body, i.e., God's dear body)..

Agnail :: Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.

Agnail :: Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail..

Bonair :: Bonair (a.) Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding.

Bullen-nail :: Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered..

Canaille :: Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

Canaille :: Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.

Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

Commissionnaire :: Commissionnaire (n.) One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers..

Cyrenaic :: Cyrenaic (a.) Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene..

Cyrenaic :: Cyrenaic (n.) A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n..

Danaide :: Danaide (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one..

Danaite :: Danaite (n.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite.

Debonair :: Debonair (a.) Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant..

Debonairity :: Debonairity (n.) Debonairness.

Debonairly :: Debonairly (adv.) Courteously; elegantly.

Debonairness :: Debonairness (n.) The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy.

Doctrinaire :: Doctrinaire (n.) One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions..

Doornail :: Doornail (n.) The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, As dead as a doornail..

Glass-snail :: Glass-snail (n.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina..

Governail :: Governail (n.) Management; mastery.

Hangnail :: Hangnail (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail..

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes..

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.

Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..

Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..

Horsenail :: Horsenail (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail..

Inaidable :: Inaidable (a.) Incapable of being assisted; helpless.

Lyonnaise :: Lyonnaise (a.) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

Mayonnaise :: Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce..

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