"hand-nail" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-nails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "hand-nail (plural hand-nails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "handnail"
        }
      ],
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1772 May 7, The South-Carolina Gazette, number 1890",
          "text": "The workmen opened the lead, and to their great ſurprize, found the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand-nails, as perfect and ſound as though he had been dead hut ſix hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842 November 12, The Daily Madisonian, volume I, number 282, Washington, D.C.",
          "text": "From this branch of the fine arts has sprung the Ongleur, who, for 25 francs per month, undertakes to render your hand-nails perfect, to reduce them to the true filbert shape, and to polish them bright as amber, by means of an instrument duly sold, at a high price, under a “brevet d’ invention.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880 May 3, “Echoes for the Fireside”, in The Liverpool Echo. An Evening Newspaper for Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales., number 161, page 3",
          "text": "Shortly after the attack it was observed that there was a groove on all the nails, both of the hands and the feet, neither the patient nor those about him having ever heard previously of such an occurrence. The foot-marks disappeared first, but the lines on the hand-nails were not cut away until nine months had elapsed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of handnail"
      ],
      "id": "en-hand-nail-en-noun-oPGZ5i2B",
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          "handnail",
          "handnail#English"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "hand-nail"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hand-nails",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hand-nail (plural hand-nails)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "word": "handnail"
        }
      ],
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1772 May 7, The South-Carolina Gazette, number 1890",
          "text": "The workmen opened the lead, and to their great ſurprize, found the fleſh, hair, and toe and hand-nails, as perfect and ſound as though he had been dead hut ſix hours.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842 November 12, The Daily Madisonian, volume I, number 282, Washington, D.C.",
          "text": "From this branch of the fine arts has sprung the Ongleur, who, for 25 francs per month, undertakes to render your hand-nails perfect, to reduce them to the true filbert shape, and to polish them bright as amber, by means of an instrument duly sold, at a high price, under a “brevet d’ invention.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1880 May 3, “Echoes for the Fireside”, in The Liverpool Echo. An Evening Newspaper for Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales., number 161, page 3",
          "text": "Shortly after the attack it was observed that there was a groove on all the nails, both of the hands and the feet, neither the patient nor those about him having ever heard previously of such an occurrence. The foot-marks disappeared first, but the lines on the hand-nails were not cut away until nine months had elapsed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of handnail"
      ],
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          "handnail",
          "handnail#English"
        ]
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      ]
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  "word": "hand-nail"
}