A small piece of skin growing the root of a finger nail.
A shred of cuticle about base of finger nails.
Skin partially torn loose near a finger-nail.
(old Eng.) Agnail, (Prov.) Ang-nail, Stepmother's blessing, Wirt-springs, Nails-pring, Nang-nail, (F.) Envie. A portion of epidermis, detached so as to tear the integument in the vicinity of the finger nails.