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A mixture of shot, nails, stones, pieces of old iron, etc., fired from a cannon at short range, in an emergency. [R.]

A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.

otton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be sewed together and nailed to the floor, as distinguished from a rug or mat; originally, also, a wrought cover for tables. Tables and beds covered with copes instead of carpets and coverlets. T. Fuller.

A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail.

A mollusk. See Clam. [Obs.] Clamp nails, nails used to fasten on clamps in ships.

A sharp, hooked nail, as of a beast or bird.

ething that has been driven trough an object), so that it will hold fast; as, to clinch a nail.

measured and sold. For this object the standard yard is usually divided into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

e center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak.

ment of chain mail. See Chain mail, under Chain. -- Mast coat (Naut.), a piece of canvas nailed around a mast, where it passes through the deck, to prevent water from getting below. -- Sail coat (Naut.), a canvas cover laced over furled sails, and the like, to keep them dry and clean.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

Inclosed in a shell. The tender horns of cockled snails. Shak.

Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering.

Beveled on the lower side, so as to fit a chamfered countersink; as, a countersunk nailhead.

ed. -- Cox*comb"ic*al*ly, adv. Studded all over in coxcombical fashion with little brass nails. W. Irving.

The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed. Knight.

ly, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness. The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. Shak. Like guilty thing, Icreep. Tennyson.

pper end of the upright, or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals. Nailed to the cross By his own nation. Milton.

The act of nailing or fastening a person to a cross, for the purpose of putting him to death; the use of the cross as a method of capital punishment.

To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet. They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. Luke xxiii. 21.