Definition of nail

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Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them..

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Unnail :: Unnail (v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.
Clout :: Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Penny :: Penny (a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds..
Nail :: Nail (n.) To fasten, as with a nail; to bind or hold, as to a bargain or to acquiescence in an argument or assertion; hence, to catch; to trap..
Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A plate or rim of iron nailed to the hoof of an animal to defend it from injury.
Water Snail :: Water snail () The Archimedean screw.
Nail :: Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
Bulimus :: Bulimus (n.) A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous and abundant in tropical America..
Mopboard :: Mopboard (n.) A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
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..
Horsenail :: Horsenail (n.) A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail..
Hobnailed :: Hobnailed (a.) See with hobnails, as a shoe..
Toed :: Toed (a.) Having the end secured by nails driven obliquely, said of a board, plank, or joist serving as a brace, and in general of any part of a frame secured to other parts by diagonal nailing..
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..
Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..
Aye-aye :: Aye-aye (n.) A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth..
Manicure :: Manicure (n.) A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails..
Nail :: Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them..
Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..
Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..
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