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In biology, a hard, flat, flexible outgrowth of the digits of primates (humans, monkeys, and apes). Nails are composed of keratin.


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The nail would be found at last, but by that time he would have lost the hammer.
"But," said the Spectator, "you said in your famous speech before the Society for the Prevention of the Protrusion of Nail Heads from Plank Sidewalks that Kings were blood-smeared oppressors and hell- bound loafers.
A nail in one of my front shoes had started as I came along, but the hostler did not notice it till just about four o'clock.
 
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