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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The nail of the thumb.
  • noun Hence, figuratively, something as small as the nail of the thumb; something quite small, as a sketch or a volume.
  • As small as the nail of the thumb; hence, quite small: as, a thumb-nail sketch; a thumb-nail series of books.

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