Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..

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Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Nail :: Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
Sprig :: Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head..
Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..
Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..
Plug :: Plug (n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails..
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..
Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Snail-like :: Snail-like (adv.) In the manner of a snail; slowly.
Cradling :: Cradling (n.) The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
Hobnail :: Hobnail (v. t.) To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes..
Head :: Head (v. t.) To form a head to; to fit or furnish with a head; as, to head a nail..
Unguiferous :: Unguiferous (a.) Producing, having, or supporting nails or claws..
Water Snail :: Water snail () Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnaea, and allied genera; a pond snail..
Sea Snail :: Sea snail () A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds..
Ungual :: Ungual (a.) Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one..
Stud :: Stud (n.) A kind of nail with a large head, used chiefly for ornament; an ornamental knob; a boss..
Frost :: Frost (v. t.) To roughen or sharpen, as the nail heads or calks of horseshoes, so as to fit them for frosty weather..
Rove :: Rove (n.) A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building.
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..
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