FINGERNAIL
ADJECTIVES
1942 — IN MOURNING having dirty fingernails → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1436 — ONGLE a fingernail → obs.
1749 — FLESH-SPADES the fingernails → obs.
1821 — NAIL HORN a fingernail → Sc.
1828 — LUNULA the white crescent-shaped mark at the base of the fingernails
1833 — RUN-ROUND an infection of the tissue around a fingernail
1884 — NANGNAIL a long fingernail → Eng. dial.
1898 — ONYCHOPHAGY the habit of biting one’s fingernails
..L19 — MOURNING BANDS dirty fingernails → sl.
..L19 — PRESENTS white spots on ones fingernails, supposedly auguring good luck
..20C — WORMS AND SNAILS the fingernails
1904 — REEP a mark made with the fingernails → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — RAGNAILS the small pieces of skin which grow around the fingernails → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1947 — GRAVE DIGGERS long fingernails → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
NOUNS, PERSON
1834 — ONYCHOPHAGIST a person who bites his nails
1834 — ONYGOPHAGIST a person who bites his nails → erroneous for ‘onychophagist’
VERBS
1623 — EXUNGULATE to pare one’s nails → obs.
1791 — CULTIVATE to grow the nails, hair, etc., esp. to a particular length or to form a certain style
1904 — SCREIT to pare the nails → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
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