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n. [ AS. angnægl; ange vexation, trouble + nægel nail. Cf. Hangnail. ] 1. A corn on the toe or foot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE., also bonere, OF. bonnaire, Cotgr., abbrev. of debonnaire. See Debonair. ] Gentle; courteous; complaisant; yielding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bull large, having a large head + nail. ] A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. canaille (cf. It. canaglia), prop. and orig. a pack of dogs, fr. L. Canis dog. ] 1. The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Shorts or inferior flour. [ Canadian ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. commissionnaire. Cf. Commissioner. ] 1. One intrusted with a commission, now only a small commission, as an errand; esp., an attendant or subordinate employee in a public office, hotel, or the like. The commissionaire familiar to European travelers performs miscellaneous services as a light porter, messenger, solicitor for hotels, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. One of a corps of pensioned soldiers, as in London, employed as doorkeepers, messengers, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. a uniformed doorman. [ British ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. commissio. ] 1. An agent or factor; a commission merchant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a class of attendants, in some European cities, who perform miscellaneous services for travelers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖, n. [ F. concessionnaire. ] The beneficiary of a concession or grant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ L. Cyrenaicus, fr. Cyrene, in Libya. ] Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene. -- n. A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small natural family of usually tropical butterflies, including the monarch butterflies.
Syn. -- family Danaidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ From the mythical Danaides, who were condemned to fill with water a vessel full of holes. ] (Mach.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Named after J. Freeman Dana. ] (Min.) A cobaltiferous variety of arsenopyrite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. debonere, OF. de bon aire, debonaire, of good descent or lineage, excellent, debonair, F. débonnaire debonair; de of (L. de) + bon good (L. bonus) + aire. See Air, and Bounty, and cf. Bonair. ] Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. debonaireté, F. débonnaireté. ] Debonairness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Courteously; elegantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Doctrine. ] One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In french history, the Doctrinaires were a constitutionalist party which originated after the restoration of the Bourbons, and represented the interests of liberalism and progress. After the Revolution of July, 1830, when they came into power, they assumed a conservative position in antagonism with the republicans and radicals. Am. Cyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, “As dead as a doornail.” [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Ghana; as, Ghanaian writers.
Syn. -- Ghanian, Ghanese. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Ghana. Ghanaian cocoa production
Syn. -- Ghanese, Ghanian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ Cf. F. gouvernail helm, rudder, L. gubernaculum. ] Management; mastery. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ A corruption of agnail. ] A small piece or sliver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of a finger nail. Holloway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 1st hob + nail. ] 1. A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A clownish person; a rustic. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hobnail liver (Med.), a disease in which the liver is shrunken, hard, and covered with projections like hobnails; one of the forms of cirrhosis of the liver. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To tread down roughly, as with hobnailed shoes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your rights and charters hobnailed into slush. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See with hobnails, as a shoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being assisted; helpless. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (upper case) an island in the Hawaiian chain. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (lower case) a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room. [ Hawaii ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ F. lyonnaise, fem. of lyonnais of Lyons. ] (Cookery) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry, produced in the area around Macon, a city in France. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. ] A thick white sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency near to that of a gel, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Menaia [ NL., from Gr. mhnai^os monthly. ] (Eccl.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. millionnaire. ] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [ Written also millionnaire. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [ Humorous ] Holmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Millionaire. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. naias, -adis, naïs, -idis, a water nymph, Gr nai:a`s, nai:`s, fr. na`ein to flow: cf. F. naïade. Cf. Naid. ] 1. (Myth.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any species of a tribe (Naiades) of freshwater bivalves, including Unio, Anodonta, and numerous allied genera; a river mussel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool) One of a group of butterflies. See Nymph. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Any plant of the order Naiadaceae, such as eelgrass, pondweed, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers.
Syn. -- family Naiadaceae, Najadaceae, family Najadaceae, naiad family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Her.) See Natant. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Naiad. ] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. naïf. See Naïve. ] 1. Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Naïve; as, a naïf remark. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind. nāyak. ] A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal. Balfour (Cyc. of India). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. naegel, akin to D. nagel, OS. & OHG. nagal, G. nagel, Icel. nagl, nail (in sense 1), nagli nail (in sense 3), Sw. nagel nail (in senses 1 and 3), Dan. nagle, Goth. ganagljan to nail, Lith. nagas nail (in sense 1), Russ. nogote, L. unguis, Gr. "o`nyx, Skr. nakha. √259.] 1. (Anat.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. [1913 Webster]

His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

☞ The nails are strictly homologous with hoofs and claws. When compressed, curved, and pointed, they are called talons or claws, and the animal bearing them is said to be unguiculate; when they incase the extremities of the digits they are called hoofs, and the animal is ungulate. [1913 Webster]

2. (Zool.) (a) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera. (b) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds. [1913 Webster]

3. A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head{2}, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them. [1913 Webster]

☞ The different sorts of nails are named either from the use to which they are applied, from their shape, from their size, or from some other characteristic, as shingle, floor, ship-carpenters', and horseshoe nails, roseheads, diamonds, fourpenny, tenpenny (see Penny, a.), chiselpointed, cut, wrought, or wire nails, etc. [1913 Webster]

4. A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard. [1913 Webster]

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 time of credit; as, to pay money on the nail; to pay cash on the nail. “You shall have ten thousand pounds on the nail.” Beaconsfield. --
To hit the nail on the head, (a) to hit most effectively; to do or say a thing in the right way. (b) to describe the most important factor. [1913 Webster +PJC]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Nailed p. pr. & vb. n. Nailing. ] [ AS. naeglian. See Nail, n. ] 1. To fasten with a nail or nails; to close up or secure by means of nails; as, to nail boards to the beams. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is now dead, and nailed in his chest. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rivets of your arms were nailed with gold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

When they came to talk of places in town, you saw at once how I nailed them. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To spike, as a cannon. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

To nail an assertion or
To nail a lie, etc., to detect and expose it, so as to put a stop to its currency; -- an expression probably derived from the former practice of shopkeepers, who were accustomed to nail bad or counterfeit pieces of money to the counter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A brush for cleaning the nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who fastens with, or drives, nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman who makes nails. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Naileries A factory where nails are made. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a head like that of a nail; formed so as to resemble the head of a nail. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 molding, or nail-head. It is the same as the simplest form of dogtooth. See Dogtooth. [ 1913 Webster ]