The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manicure \Man"i*cure\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Manicured; p. pr. & vb. n. Manicuring.]
To care for (the hands and nails); to care for the hands and nails of; to do manicure work.
to trim carefully and meticulously; as, to manicure a lawn.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of manicure English)
Usage examples of "manicuring".
It was one of the largest fresh-water fish in the world, and had enormous scales, frequently six inches long, the scales being used by the native women as manicuring instruments.
Zinnia had a vision of him manicuring the tentacles of one of his grotesque plants while he spoke with her.
This is an ideal attitude that most golfers adopted before modern maintenance procedures and machinery allowed for the manicuring of courses - the golf course as a lawn.