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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..

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..

Nailless :: Nailless (a.) Without nails; having no nails.

Supernaculum :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) A kind of mock Latin term intended to mean, upon the nail; -- used formerly by topers..

Achatina :: Achatina (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa..

Onychomancy :: Onychomancy (n.) Divination by the nails.

Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..

Ungulate :: Ungulate (a.) Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1..

Nailed :: Nailed (imp. & p. p.) of Nai.

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

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..

Weather-board :: Weather-board (v. t.) To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc..

Treenail :: Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.

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..

Home :: Home (adv.) To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home..

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..

Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..

Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes..

Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head..

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