handnail
See also: hand-nail
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From hand + nail. Compare Old English handnæġl.
Noun edit
handnail (plural handnails)
- (uncommon) Synonym of fingernail
- 1772 February, Sylvanus Urban [pen name; Edward Cave], editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, volume XLII, London: […] D. Henry, page 92:
- On opening the lead, the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand nails, were as perfect and ſound as though he had not been dead ſix hours.
- 1965, Soviet Literature, page 53:
- He looked very young, almost a boy, and had a habit of biting off handnails.
- 1966, The Journal of the Christian Medical Association of India, page 397:
- Localisation: Handnails, rarely footnails (infection not very common in India).
- 1969, Aleksandr Abramov, Sergei Abramov, Horsemen from Nowhere, Mir Publishers, page 21:
- We compared our hands: even the corns and handnails were the same.
- 1973, AMPO: Japan-Asia Quarterly Review, page 29:
- Deformed, dirtily stained and made extremely fragile, toenails as well as handnails of Kanemi Rice Oil Disease patients come off suddenly, to be replaced by new ones which face the same fate.
- 1991, Masami Hanabusa, An Analysis of Japanese Patent Law: Translated from the Original Treatise, Brunswick Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:
- It was also found that making artificial nails, which comprises making a model of handnails of each person, making a plastic cover for the nails […]