hand-nail
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.18 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of handnail.
Example Sentences
- "The workmen opened the lead, and to their great ſurprize, found the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand-nails, as perfect and ſound as though he had been dead hut ſix hours."
- "From this branch of the fine arts has sprung the Ongleur, who, for 25 francs per month, undertakes to render your hand-nails perfect, to reduce them to the true filbert shape, and to polish them bright as amber, by means of an instrument duly sold, at a high price, under a “brevet d’ invention.”"
- "Shortly after the attack it was observed that there was a groove on all the nails, both of the hands and the feet, neither the patient nor those about him having ever heard previously of such an occurrence. The foot-marks disappeared first, but the lines on the hand-nails were not cut away until nine months had elapsed."