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Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut lengthwise; to cut into long pieces or strips; as, to slit iron bars into nail rods; to slit leather into straps..

Claw :: Claw (n.) The whole foot of an animal armed with hooked nails; the pinchers of a lobster, crab, etc..

Flat-headed :: Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top; as, a flat-headed nail..

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

Stylommatophorous :: Stylommatophora (n. pl.) A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Canaille :: Canaille (n.) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

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..

Exungulate :: Exungulate (v. t.) To pare off, as nails, the hoof, etc..

Prosopulmonata :: Prosopulmonata (n. pl.) A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organ situated on the neck, as in the common snail..

Hobnail :: Hobnail (n.) A clownish person; a rustic.

Unnail :: Unnail (v. t.) To remove the nails from; to unfasten by removing nails.

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..

Screw :: Screw (n.) Specifically, a kind of nail with a spiral thread and a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below..

Sparable :: Sparable (n.) A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

Necked :: Necked (a.) Cracked; -- said of a treenail.

Dowel :: Dowel (n.) A piece of wood driven into a wall, so that other pieces may be nailed to it..

Pupa :: Pupa (n.) A genus of air-breathing land snails having an elongated spiral shell.

Snail :: Snail (n.) The pod of the sanil clover.

Spike :: Spike (n.) A sort of very large nail; also, a piece of pointed iron set with points upward or outward..

Leprosy :: Leprosy (n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is

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