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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..

Nog :: Nog (v. t.) To fasten, as shores, with treenails..

Snail-like :: Snail-like (a.) Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress..

Snail :: Snail (n.) Hence, a drone; a slow-moving person or thing..

Pricking :: Pricking (n.) The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.

Supernal :: Supernaculum (adv. & n.) Good liquor, of which not enough is left to wet one's nail..

Unguiculated :: Unguiculated (a.) Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1..

Geophila :: Geophila (n. pl.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

Snail :: Snail (n.) Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the world except the arctic regions, and feed almost entirely on vegetation; a land snail..

Tenpenny :: Tenpenny (a.) Denoting a size of nails. See 1st Penny.

Sea Snail :: Sea snail () Any small creeping marine gastropod, as the species of Littorina, Natica, etc..

Agnail :: Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.

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

Unguiculata :: Unguiculata (n. pl.) An extensive division of Mammalia including those having claws or nails, as distinguished from the hoofed animals (Ungulata)..

Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..

Achatina :: Achatina (n.) A genus of land snails, often large, common in the warm parts of America and Africa..

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Hangnail :: Hangnail (n.) A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail..

Snail :: Snail (n.) A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect besiegers; a testudo..

Paludina :: Paludina (n.) Any one of numerous species of freshwater pectinibranchiate mollusks, belonging to Paludina, Melantho, and allied genera. They have an operculated shell which is usually green, often with brown bands. See Illust. of Pond snail, under Pond..

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