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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..

Countersunk :: Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead..

Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.

Snail-like :: Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress..

Cut :: Cut (v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails..

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails..

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..

Ianthina :: Ianthina (n.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

Snail :: Snail (n.) The pod of the sanil clover.

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..

Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..

Manufacture :: Manufacture (v. t.) To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, glass, etc..

Unguicular :: Unguicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.

Dodman :: Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod..

Frost :: Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather..

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..

Fillip :: Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger..

Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

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