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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The lacrymal bone, or os unguis: so called from its size and shape in man, in which respects it resembles a thumb-nail. See lacrymal, n., and cut under skull.
  • noun The terminal phalanx of a digit which bears a nail.

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