nail pulling nail removal | a form of torture in which the fingernails or toenails are removed |
nail-tailed wallaby nail-tailed kangaroo | small wallabies with a horny nail on the tip of the tail |
bird louse biting louse louse | wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting, mostly parasitic on birds |
punkie punky punkey no-see-um biting midge | minute two-winged insect that sucks the blood of mammals and birds and other insects |
cigarette cigaret coffin nail butt fag | finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper, for smoking |
clout nail clout | a short nail with a flat head, used to attach sheet metal to wood |
corrugated fastener wiggle nail | a small strip of corrugated steel with sharp points on one side, hammered across wood joints in rough carpentry |
eightpenny nail | a nail . inches long |
fourpenny nail | a nail . inches long |
nail | a thin pointed piece of metal that is hammered into materials as a fastener |
nail hole | a hole left after a nail is removed |
nail polish nail enamel nail varnish | a cosmetic lacquer that dries quickly and that is applied to the nails to color them or make them shiny |
sixpenny nail | a nail inches long |
stub nail | a short thick nail |
tenpenny nail | a nail inches long |
nail | horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits |
nail | a former unit of length for cloth equal to of a yard |
finalize finalise settle nail down | make final, put the last touches on, put into final form, let's finalize the proposal |
pin down peg down nail down narrow down narrow specify | define clearly, I cannot narrow down the rules for this game |
complete nail | complete a pass |
collar nail apprehend arrest pick up nab cop | take into custody, the police nabbed the suspected criminals |
nail | attach something somewhere by means of nails, nail the board onto the wall |
smash nail boom blast | hit hard, He smashed a -run homer |
pinpoint nail | locate exactly, can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?, The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome |
breeze through ace pass with flying colors sweep through sail through nail | succeed at easily, She sailed through her exams, You will pass with flying colors, She nailed her astrophysics course |
nail down nail peg | succeed in obtaining a position, He nailed down a spot at Harvard |
biting bitter | causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation, used especially of cold, bitter cold, a biting wind |
barbed biting nipping pungent mordacious | capable of wounding, a barbed compliment, a biting aphorism, pungent satire |
cliff-hanging suspenseful suspensive nail-biting | (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense |
tooth and nail | with force and ferocity, she fought tooth and nail |