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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
unguis .
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Examples
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Et legat historicos auctores, noverit omnes Tanquam ungues digitosque suos.
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Veteres mature suadent ungues amoris esse radendos, priusquam producant se nimis.
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"At toto Thori die hominibus ungues secare minime licuit."
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The Nails (ungues) (Fig. 943) are flattened, elastic structures of a horny texture, placed upon the dorsal surfaces of the terminal phalanges of the fingers and toes.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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From them we learn that it requires a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus, ungues, pulvillus, and anterior, medial and posterior spurs to provide a leg for a moth.
Moths of the Limberlost Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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As there are few difficulties to overcome, it suffers from a fatal facility -- _nec pluteum coedit nec demorsos sapit ungues_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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As there are few difficulties to overcome, it suffers from a fatal facility -- _nec pluteum coedit nec demorsos sapit ungues_.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866
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_Cor. _ 6-petala, campanulata, supra ungues cavitate nectarifera.
The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772
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Password for the first time log in should also be generated by the system in an ungues able way.
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ÍEmilium circa ludum faber imus et ungues Exprimet et molles imitabitur ztre capillos,
Poetica de Horatio, e o Ensaio sobre a critica de Alexandre Pope : em portuguez 1812
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