NAIL
\nˈe͡ɪl], \nˈeɪl], \n_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of NAIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
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attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
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locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
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complete a pass
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take into custody; "the police nabbed the suspected criminals"
By Princeton University
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a former unit of length for cloth equal to 1/16 of a yard
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attach something somewhere by means of nails; "nail the board onto the wall"
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locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To spike, as a cannon.
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the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
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The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
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The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
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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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A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
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To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
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To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To spike, as a cannon.
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the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
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The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
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The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.
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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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A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard.
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To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams.
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To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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The horny substance at the ends of the human fingers and toes; the claws of a bird or animal; a measure two and one-fourth inches long; a pointed piece of metal, furnished with a head, and used for driving into woodwork, etc.
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To fasten with such a piece of metal; to secure or make certain; to hold down tightly: as, to nail an argument; to expose; as, to nail a lie.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The horny scale at the end of the human fingers and toes: the claw of a bird or other animal: a pointed spike of metal for fastening wood: a measure of length (2 1/4 inches).
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To fasten with nails.
By Daniel Lyons
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Horny scale at the end of the finger or toe; claw; metal spike; measure of two and one fourth inches.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To fasten, as with a nail.
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A thing horny plate on the end of a finger of toe.
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A metal pin with point at one end and head at the other, for driving into wood.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Sax. The nails are composed of a horny tissue, of the same nature as that which forms the hoofs horns, and scales of different animals. When the nail has been torn off, the papillae of the skin become covered by a soft, whitish lamina, laminae are then formed underneath, and give the nail the thickness it ought to possess. The corneous substance, being thus constantly produced at the extremity of each of these laminae the whole of the nail is pushed forwards, and it would grow indefinitely, were it not cut or worn by friction. The nails protect and support the extremities of the fingers against the impreessiom of hard bodies. They are also useful in laying hold of small bodies; and dividing those that hace bit little consistence.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The flat, scalelike corneous growth situated in a fold of the skin on the dorsal surface of the terminal phalanges of the fingers and toes in man, homologous with the hoof, claw, or talons of lower animals. The chemical constituents, which resemble those of the horny structures, are chiefly, keratins and mineral salts, especially calcium phosphate.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] The horny scale growing at the end of the human fingers and toes;- the claw or talon of a bird or other animal;- a small pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used to fasten hoards, timbers, &c. together; spike brad;—a stud or boss; a short piece of metal with a brass head, used to ornament furniture;—a measure of length, being two inches and a quarter.
