Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon..

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Unguis :: Unguis (n.) The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage..
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head..
Fasten :: Fasten (a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts..
Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..
Stubbed :: Stub (n.) A stub nail; an old horseshoe nail; also, stub iron..
Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..
Penny :: Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..
Aye-aye :: Aye-aye (n.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth..
Nail :: Nail (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails..
''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)..
Button :: Button (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door..
Water Snail :: Water snail () The Archimedean screw.
Holdfast :: Holdfast (n.) Something used to secure and hold in place something else, as a long fiat-headed nail, a catch a hook, a clinch, a clamp, etc.; hence, a support..
Trunnel :: Trunnel (n.) See Treenail.
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.
Nog :: Nog (n.) A treenail to fasten the shores.
Agnail :: Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail..
Stud :: Stud (n.) An upright scanting, esp. one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed..
Joist :: "Joist (n.) A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a..
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