Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

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Rosehead :: Rosehead (n.) A many-sided pyramidal head upon a nail; also a nail with such a head.
Treenail :: Treenail (n.) A long wooden pin used in fastening the planks of a vessel to the timbers or to each other.
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head..
Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..
Snailfish :: Snailfish (n.) See Sea snail (a).
Scratch :: Scratch (v. i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.
Oxshoe :: Oxshoe (n.) A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof..
Physa :: Physa (n.) A genus of fresh-water Pulmonifera, having reversed spiral shells. See Pond snail, under Pond..
Helix :: Helix (n.) A genus of land snails, including a large number of species..
Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.
Foot :: Foot (n.) The muscular locomotive organ of a mollusk. It is a median organ arising from the ventral region of body, often in the form of a flat disk, as in snails. See Illust. of Buccinum..
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..
Header :: Header (n.) One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading..
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..
Prick :: Prick (n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness..
Horsenail :: Horsenail (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail..
Flagellum :: Flagellum (v. t.) An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.
Run :: Run (v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot..
Onychomancy :: Onychomancy (n.) Divination by the nails.
Vertigo :: Vertigo (n.) Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture..
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