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

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S&H Smith & Hall (2)
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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.
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• nail (v.): expr. by clāvus with a verb: e. g. clavis configere (with dat. of that to which), Caes. B. G. 3, 13; figere, Cato R. R. 20; religare, Caes. B. C. 2, 10: v. to fix, fasten. Phr.: to n. to the cross, cruci figere, Suet. Dom. 11; suffigere, Cic. in Pis. 18, 42: v. to crucify.
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• NAIL
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  • s. On the finger or toes, unguis. Long nails, ungues eminentes (Ov., A.A., 1, 519; et nihil emineant ungues, i. e., one ought not to have long nails): dirty nails, ungues sordidi (loc. cit., et sint sine sordibus ungues): to pare the nails, ungues recidere, or resecare, or subsecare: to bite the nails, ungues rodere (Hor., Sat., 1, 10, 71): to move not a nail’s breadth, aliquo loco non unguem latum excedere: to swerve not a nail’s breadth from anything, transversum unguem ab aliqua re non recedere.
  • A small spike or stud, clavus. A large nail for fastening beams, clavus trabalis: shoe nails, clavi caligares: to drive a nail, clavum figere or defigere in aliqua re; clavum adigere in aliquid: you have hit the right nail on the head, rem acu tetigisti (Plaut., Rud., 5, 2, 19): to be a nail in one’s coffin, causam mortis esse.
  • A measure of length, *digiti duo cum quadrante.
2. v. clavis affigere aliquid: clavis firmare or munire aliquid; to anything, alicui rei or ad aliquid; clavis configere aliquid aliqua re (to fasten anything with nails).