A growth or loose piece of skin at the base of the finger-nail; an agnail.

‘A disease in which the skin recedes from the nail’ (Cent. Dict.). Obsolete.

= hangnail, n.

An abnormal condition of the nail in which the cuticle extends forward over the nail plate. More fully pterygium unguis.

A small piece of epidermis partially detached, but hanging by one end, near to a nail.

Perhaps: a hangnail. Obsolete. rare.

A small strip of skin partially detached, but hanging by one end, near a fingernail; = hangnail, n.

Originally: †a whitlow affecting a fingernail or toenail; = paronychia, n. 1 (obsolete). Later: disease, esp. inflammation or infection, of the nail…

A complete shedding of some part (as the hair or the finger-nails) as a result of disease (see quots.).

Excessive growth, accompanied by thickening and curvature, of one or more nails (usually toenails).

A hangnail (hangnail, n.) on the finger. Cf. liverage, n.2

(dialect) A hangnail.

Fungal infection of a nail, claw, or hoof; an instance of this.

A white mark caused by injury to a fingernail or toenail. Obsolete.

A condition of the finger-nails in which the outer surfaces are concave instead of convex; spoon-nail.