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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• nail (subs.):
    1. I. Of man or beast: unguis, is, m.: to clean one's n.s with a penknife, cultello purgare u., Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 52: to cut one's n.s, u. ponere, Hor. A. P. 2, 97; u. subsecare ferro, Ov. Fast. 6, 2, 30; u. deponere, resecare, recīdere, Petr.: a n.'s breadth, u. transversus, Pl. Aul. 1, 1, 18; u. latus, Cic. Fam. 7, 25: to the n. (very exactly), ad unguem, Virg. G. 2, 277: to bite one's n.s (in meditation), rodere ungues, Hor. Sat. 1, 10, 71; (in anger), mordēre u., Prop. 4, 24, 24. Dimin., unguiculus (young or tender n.), Cic. Fam. 1, 6. Phr.: tooth and n., manibus pedibusque (conari), Ter. And. 1, 1, 134; toto corpore atque omnibus ungulis, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 56: cf. navibus atque quadrigis, Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 29.
    2. II. A metal spike or stud: clāvus: to drive in n.s, clavos figere, Hor. Od. 3, 24, 5: Varr. R. R. 2, 9: boot-n., c. caligaris, Plin. 9, 18, 33: Juv. Phr.: to hit the n. on the head, (rem) acu tangere, Pl. Rud. 5, 2, 19 (mostly used in phr., rem acu tetigisti): cf. also, rem ipsam putasti, Ter. Ph. 4, 5, 6: to pay money on the n., argentum adnumerare illico, Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 15; pecuniam dare alicui in manum, id. Ph 4, 3, 28.