Word Finder - nails

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The thin, horny plate at the ends of fingers and toes on humans and some other animals.

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When I'm nervous I bite my nails.

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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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The claw of a bird or other animal.

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A spike-shaped metal fastener used for joining wood or similar materials. The nail is generally driven through two or more layers of material by means of impacts from a hammer or other device. It is then held in place by friction.

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A round pedestal on which merchants once carried out their business, such as the four nails outside The Exchange, Bristol.

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An archaic English unit of length equivalent to 1/20 of an ell or 1/16 of a yard (2 1/4 inches or 5.715 cm).

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To fix (an object) to another object using a nail.

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He nailed the placard to the post.

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• pin
• rivet
• screw

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To drive a nail.

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He used the ax head for nailing.

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• hammer

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To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails.

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To catch.

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• arrest
• collar
• nick

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To expose as a sham.

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To accomplish (a task) completely and successfully.

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I really nailed that test.

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• ace
• fulfill
• fullbring

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To hit (a target) effectively with some weapon.

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Of a male, to engage in sexual intercourse with.

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• dick
• pound
• rail
• screw

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To spike, as a cannon.

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To nail down: to make certain, or confirm.

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• clinch
• fix
• lock down
• pin down

He clipped the nails back to expose pink quicks.

With the exception of the second toe of the hind-foot, the digits have well-formed, flattened nails as in the majority of monkeys.

Other important manufactures are iron and steel, slaughtering and meat-packing products, boots and shoes, cigars, furniture, men's clothing, hosiery and knit goods, jute and jute goods, linen-thread, malt liquors, brick, cement, barbed wire, wire nails and planing-mill products.

His pulpit in the duomo was defiled, an ass's skin spread over the cushion and shar nails fixed in the board Bxcorn-, p mun.cated.

In the fore feet the web not only fills the interspaces between the toes, but extends considerably beyond the ends of the long, broad and somewhat flattened nails, giving great expanse to the foot when used for swimming, though capable of being folded back on the palm when the animal is burrowing or walking on the land.

On the hind foot the nails are long, curved and pointed, and the web extends only to their base.

Pamplona has a flourishing agricultural trade, besides manufactures of cloth, linen stuffs, flour, soap, leather, cards, paper, earthenware, iron and nails.

They derive their name of Tylopoda ("boss-footed") from the circumstance that the feet form large cushion-like pads, supporting the weight of the body, while the toes have broad nails on their upper surface only, instead of being encased in hoofs.

Vandeleuria, ranging from India to Yunnan, has flat nails on the first and fifth toes of both feet, and a very long tail; while the Indo-Malay Chiropodomys has a flat nail on the first toe of both feet and a tufted tail.

The manufacture of machinery, heavy iron goods and nails, and copper and iron founding, are important industries, and there are important metallurgical and engineering works at Montataire, about 2 m.

The terminal phalange of the inner (or second) digit is deeply cleft, and has a peculiar long curved claw, the others having short broad nails.

Trees must be fixed to the walls and buildings against which they are trained by means of nails and shreds (neat medicated strips are now sold for this purpose), or in cases where it is desired to preserve the wall surface intact, by permanent nails or studs driven in in regular order.

When shreds and nails are used, short thick wire nails and " medicated shreds " are the best; the ordinary cast iron wall nails being much too brittle and difficult to drive into the wall.

It must be remembered that nails spoil a wall sooner or later, whereas a wire trellis is not only much neater, but enables the gardener to tie his trees up much more quickly.

It is extremely hard in our files and razors, and extremely soft in our horse-shoe nails, which in some countries the smith rejects unless he can bend them on his forehead; with iron we cut and shape iron.

Nails, rivets, chains, fire-irons, locks and safes are produced.

Cloth was formerly a staple of trade, but manufactures of nails and buttons are now pre-eminent, while the river Salwarpe works a number of mills in the neighbourhood, and near the town are carriage works belonging to the Midland railway.

It is into these figures that the nails are driven, in order to procure the vengeance of the indwelling spirit on some enemy.

The leaves of the henna plant are used to impart a bright red color to the palms of the hands, the soles of the feet, and the nails of both hands and feet, of women and children, the hair of old ladies and the tails of horses.

These churches were then endowed with new sanctuaries of miraculous powers; and relics of Christ were found in the shape of the Cross and the nails.

For joiners' work, however, it is well adapted, and glue adheres strongly to it, though nails do not hold well.

Teak wood is straight in the grain and exceptionally strong and durable, its oily nature enabling it to resist the attacks of insects and to preserve, iron nails and fastenings.

The terminal phalanges are small and nodular, not flattened on their inner or opposed surfaces, and not completely encased in hoofs, but bearing nails on their upper surface only.

Within the church are the iron crown of Lombardy, supposed to have been beaten out of one of the nails used at the Crucifixion, and the treasury containing the relics of Theodelinda, comprising her crown, fan and comb of gold, and the golden hen and seven chickens, representing Lombardy and her seven provinces, and crosses, reliquaries, &c., of the Lombard and Gothic periods.

Mahommedan women pencil the eyes with kohl or surma, use missi for the teeth and colour the palms and nails of the hand with henna.

It is a gregarious animal, living in considerable colonies in burrows, which it excavates with its nails and teeth in the sandy soil of Egypt and Arabia.

The hindfeet have a very short nailless first toe; the second, third and fourth toes partially united by integument, of nearly equal length; the fifth distinct and rather shorter; these four are provided with long and curved nails.

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of onethird.

In Aeschylus, the Erinyes are represented as awful, Gorgon-like women, wearing long black robes, with snaky locks, bloodshot eyes and claw-like nails.

Brewing, flour-milling, distilling, turnery, cotton-bleaching, cidermaking, metal-founding, tanning, and the manufacture of glass, paper, iron ware, nails, pins, wind-instruments, bricks and sugar are also carried on.

Neufchateau carries on wool-spinning and the manufacture of embroidery, nails and chains.

Coal is brought to the city from the coalfields by boats on the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers as well as by rail, and great fleets of barges carry coal and other heavy freight, such as steel rails, cotton ties, sheet iron, wire and nails, down the Ohio in the winter and spring.

The iron trade in its different branches rivals the woollen trade in wealth, including the casting of metal, and the manufacture of steam engines, steam wagons, steam ploughs, machinery, tools, nails, &c. Leeds was formerly famed for the production of artistic pottery, and specimens of old Leeds ware are highly prized.

With few exceptions, the terminal extremities of the digits of both limbs of mammals are more or less protected or armed by epidermic plates or sheaths, constituting the various forms of nails, claws or hoofs.

Accordingly, it was at this epoch that the small ancestral insectivorous mammals first forsook their arboreal habitat to try a life on the open plains, where their descendants developed on the one hand into the carnivorous and other groups, in which the toes are armed with nails or claws, and on the other into the hoofed group, inclusive of such monsters as the elephant and the giraffe.

The peasants believe in charms and omens, in vampires, were-wolves, ghosts, the evil eye and vile or white-robed spirits of the earth, air, stream and mountain, with hoofs like a goat and henna-dyed nails and hair.

The same year he lost his only son - a blow which, he said, "drove the nails into his own coffin."

In 1907 the sanctuary of Athena "of the Brazen House" (X aX KlocKos) was located on the Acropolis immediately above the theatre, and though the actual temple is almost completely destroyed, fragments of the capitals show that it was Doric in style, and the site has produced the longest extant archaic inscription of Laconia, numerous bronze nails and plates and a considerable number of votive offerings, some of them of great interest.

Its legs are short and strong, and form, with its broad feet and large solid nails, powerful burrowing organs.

Iron products were manufactured throughout the 18th century, nails were made before 1716 and were exported from the colony, and it was in Connecticut that cannon were cast for the Continental troops and the chains were made to block the channel of the Hudson river to British ships.

The earliest form of manufacturing was that of household industries, nails, clocks, tin ware and other useful articles being made by hand, and then peddled from town to town.

It possesses a mineral spring, which attracts numerous summer visitors, and has various industries, which include iron-founding and the making of horse-shoe nails, roofing material and bricks.

I was temporarily encouraged when I saw it was stocked with carpentry tools; saws, hammers, nails, all potential weapons!

The nails were heavy duty and we drove them vigorously and in abundance until our arms gave out!

His hands roamed her body, his long nails leaving trails of blood down her skin.

Her soft, forlorn words sounded like a farewell.  "This is killing me," he muttered.  He strode to her, wrapped his arms around her, and kissed her.  She yielded more easily in the dream than she ever had in real life.  Her soft, warm lips welcomed him hungrily, and he lost himself in her sweet musk, warm skin and honeyed taste.  He didn't want to leave; he wanted to spend the rest of his life making love to her on the beach.  He wanted to feel his skin pressed against hers and for her to run her fingers through his hair before scraping her nails down his back.  He wanted to take her every way he could imagine, until they lay spent and panting on the beach, until nothing but their entwined bodies and souls remained of their world.

A few minutes later he returned with a scrap of wood, some nails and a hammer.

I have pared the devil's nails forty times, roasted them in raven's eggs, and cured agues with them.

We left the island with his words Like nails banged through the head Almost a year ago today.

Care should, therefore, be taken to avoid breakage whilst removing nails.