Definition of nail

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

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Agnail :: Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail..
Countersunk :: Countersunk (p. p. & a.) Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead..
Helicoid :: Helicoid (a.) Shaped like a snail shell; pertaining to the Helicidae, or Snail family..
Unguicular :: Unguicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.
Agnail :: Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
Dodman :: Dodman (n.) A snail; also, a snail shell; a hodmandod..
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..
Tack :: Tack (v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder..
Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..
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..
Nail :: Nail (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails..
Peg :: Peg (n.) A wooden pin, or nail, on which to hang things, as coats, etc. Hence, colloquially and figuratively: A support; a reason; a pretext; as, a peg to hang a claim upon..
Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..
Suburb :: Subungual (a.) Under the nail or hoof.
Nailer :: Nailer (n.) One who fastens with, or drives, nails..
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..
Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head..
Gastropoda :: Gastropoda (n. pl.) One of the classes of Mollusca, of great extent. It includes most of the marine spiral shells, and the land and fresh-water snails. They generally creep by means of a flat, muscular disk, or foot, on the ventral side of the body. The head usually bears one or two pairs of tentacles. See Mollusca..
Stud :: Stud (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss..
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