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To cast in the teeth, to report reproachfully; to taunt or insult one with. -- Tooth and nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. -- Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. --…

A treenail. [R.] Moxon.

Corrupt form of Treenail.

See Treenail.

Of or pertaining to a nail, claw, talon, or hoof, or resembling one.

Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.

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

Furnished with nails, claws, or hooks; clawed. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.

Producing, having, or supporting nails or claws.

The nail, claw, talon, or hoof of a finger, toe, or other appendage.

Furnished with hoofs. See the Note under Nail, n., 1.

onsisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell is composed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.

Marked with veins; veined; veiny. The excellent old gentleman's nails are long and leaden, and his hands lean and veinous. Dickens.

Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

and blue combined. Violet shell (Zoöl.), any species of Ianthina; -- called also violet snail. See Lanthina. -- Violet wood, a name given to several kinds of hard purplish or reddish woods, as king wood, myall wood, and the wood of the Andira violacea, a tree of Guiana.

To nail boards upon so as to lap one over another, in order to exclude rain, snow, etc. Gwilt.

Whitlow. [Obs.] "The nails fallen off by whitflaws." Herrick.

crometer having spider lines, or fine wires, across the field of the instrument. -- Wire nail, a nail formed of a piece of wire which is headed and pointed. -- Wire netting, a texture of woven wire coarser than ordinary wire gauze. -- Wire rod, a metal rod from which wire is formed by drawing. -- Wire rope, a rope…

A creeping or a crawling animal of any kind or size, as a serpent, caterpillar, snail, or the like. [Archaic] There came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. When the men of the country saw the worm hang on his hand, they said, This man must needs be a murderer. Tyndale (Acts xxviii. 3, 4). 'T is slander, Wh…

and secure the planks against the timbers till they are fastened by bolts, spikes, or treenails; -- not to be confounded with ringbolt.