a treatment for the care of the hands and fingernails [French manicure, from Latin manus hand + French -icure (as in pédicure pedicure)]
to give a manicure to (somebody)to trim (e.g. a lawn) closely and evenly Even if it [the pampered town cat] does go outside, there is little to hunt on the manicured lawns — Desmond Morrismanicurist noun