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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Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..
Spick :: Spick (n.) A spike or nail.
Tacket :: Tacket (n.) A small, broad-headed nail..
Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Nip :: Nip (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..
Drive :: Drive (v. t.) To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room..
Governail :: Governail (n.) Management; mastery.
Oxshoe :: Oxshoe (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof..
Bouge :: Bouge (v. t.) To scoop out, as an eye, with the thumb nail; to force out the eye of (a person) with the thumb..
Necked :: Necked (a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.
Bullen-nail :: Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered..
Leprosy :: Leprosy (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is
Home-driven :: Home-driven (a.) Driven to the end, as a nail; driven close..
Fur :: Fur (v. t.) To nail small strips of board or larger scantling upon, in order to make a level surface for lathing or boarding, or to provide for a space or interval back of the plastered or boarded surface, as inside an outer wall, by way of protection against damp..
Lim Naea :: Lim naea (n.) A genus of fresh-water air-breathing mollusks, abundant in ponds and streams; -- called also pond snail..
Nailbrush :: Nailbrush (n.) A brush for cleaning the nails.
Nail :: Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard..
Crucify :: Crucify (v. t.) To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.
Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
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