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Nailless

Nailless \Nail"less\, a. Without nails; having no nails.

Usage examples of "nailless".

The humanoid pressed four kelp-like, nailless fingers to his forehead.

Ryan stared as the woman staggered sideways, her nailless fingers plucking at the hilt of the slim dagger that sprouted from her neck like a bizarre pendant.

There was no hint of tension in that sigh, no tremor in his long, nailless fingers as they caressed the controls.

The two stubs, with their shiny pink flesh and smooth, nailless tips, were things of wonder to her.

These seemed nailless, like the toes, though a closer examination later showed him they did bear rudimentary nails.

He had small-fingered nailless hands where a dog would have had toes and front feet.

Her swollen and discolored feet and nailless, charred toes hung a few inches above the floor, and blood from various parts of her battered, horribly disfigured body had dripped down to form a clotting pool on the hard-packed earth.

With soft, nailless fingers he strove to pry away the thick black tentacle that protected her.

Round-shouldered, with nubby, nailless fingers, they paused and groped mechanically at instrument dials and nobs, raising and lowering the rods in and out of the pool below them.

Father stood motionless as stone, one nailless hand resting upon his long red-gold beard, his deeply sunken eyes downcast, intent on the figure on the grass.

The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars.

He was sitting up in a chair, and replacing the bandage across his eyes, a painful operation because of his nailless fingertips.

They were huge, flat things with nailless toes--short, stubby toes with webs between them.

Its feet were round and nailless and heavily calloused on the bottoms.

Bunched close together they came after me, the nailless, padded feet of their ponderous mounts making no sound upon the ocher, moss-like vegetation of the dead sea bottom.