Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them..

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Bullen-nail :: Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered..
Snail :: Snail (n.) The pod of the sanil clover.
Rosehead :: Rosehead (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
Nail :: Nail (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails..
Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..
Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..
Naileress :: Naileress (n.) A women who makes nailes.
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Canaille :: Canaille (n.) Shorts or inferior flour.
Nail :: Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them..
Trunnel :: Trunnel (n.) See Treenail.
Flat-headed :: Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail..
Onychia :: Onychia (n.) An affection of a finger or toe, attended with ulceration at the base of the nail, and terminating in the destruction of the nail..
Unnail :: Unnail (v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.
Puncture :: Puncture (n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin..
Pinchers :: Pinchers (n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc..
Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
Clout :: Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Sparable :: Sparable (n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.
Aestivation :: Aestivation (n.) The state of torpidity induced by the heat and dryness of summer, as in certain snails; -- opposed to hibernation..
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