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A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard. Nail ball (Ordnance), a round projectile with an iron bolt protruding to prevent it from turning in the gun. -- Nail plate, iron in plates from which cut nails are made. -- On the nail, in hand; on the spot; immediately; without delay or…

Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. Nail-headed characters, arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded. -- Nail-headed molding (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; -- called also nail-head…

A brush for cleaning the nails.

One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.

A women who makes nailes.

A manufactory where nails are made.

Without nails; having no nails.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.

The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.

Management; mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail. Holloway.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds.

Any gastropod having a general resemblance to the true snails, including fresh-water and marine species. See Pond snail, under Pond, and Sea snail.

Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.