Definitions
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
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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.
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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
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As there are few difficulties to overcome, it suffers from a fatal facility -- _nec pluteum coedit nec demorsos sapit ungues_.
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_Cor. _ 6-petala, campanulata, supra ungues cavitate nectarifera.
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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
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