Definition of claw

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Claw (v. i.) To scrape, scratch, or dig with a claw, or with the hand as a claw..

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Clapperclaw :: Clapperclaw (v. t.) To abuse with the tongue; to revile; to scold.
Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..
Lawe :: Lawe (v. t.) To cut off the claws and balls of, as of a dog's fore feet..
Turnkey :: Turnkey (n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist..
Talon :: Talon (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey..
Unguiculated :: Unguiculated (a.) Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1..
Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..
Sere :: Sere (n.) Claw; talon.
Clawback :: Clawback (n.) A flatterer or sycophant.
Bird''s-foot :: Bird's-foot (n.) A papilionaceous plant, the Ornithopus, having a curved, cylindrical pod tipped with a short, clawlike point..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin, or the like..
Crowfoot :: Crowfoot (n.) A tool with a side claw for recovering broken rods, etc..
Scratch :: Scratch (v. t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow..
Ungular :: Ungular (a.) Of or pertaining to a hoof, claw, or talon; ungual..
Unarmed :: Unarmed (a.) Having no hard and sharp projections, as spines, prickles, spurs, claws, etc..
Pseudoscorpiones :: Pseudoscorpiones (n. pl.) An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book..
Ungual :: Ungual (a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one..
Claw :: Claw (n.) A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird..
Cheliferous :: Cheliferous (a.) Having cheliform claws, like a crab..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
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