Definitions
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- adjective Without nails; having no nails.
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- adjective Without a
nail or nails.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Slim, nailless fingers dosed around flexible glove, meeting across the light-years and the ages.
Tin 2010
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I always feel like I'm scrabbling on the surface of a wet balloon with nailless fingers, trying to find some purchase to hang on to.
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Yet Sanders was a fine young fellow (here all the scraps went swirling round the sink, scoured after by her purple, almost nailless hands).
Jacob's Room 2004
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Shaw also said they had small nailless hands and long narrow feet.
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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Shaw also said they had small nailless hands and long narrow feet.
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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Shaw also said they had small nailless hands and long narrow feet.
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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Shaw also said they had small nailless hands and long narrow feet.
Space Ships of the Visitors Kevin Randle 2000
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Two long, sturdy-looking arms ended in hands around each of which four nailless fingers were symmetrically arranged; they seemed flexible, boneless, like an elephant's trunk.
Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998
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Slim, nailless fingers dosed around flexible glove, meeting across the light-years and the ages.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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Their feet are round and nailless, and heavily calloused on the bottom.
Escape on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1963
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