Middle English Dictionary Entry
nailed adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | nailed adj. Also naled. |
| Etymology | From nail n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Possessing fingernails or toenails; having nails (of a certain kind); (b) ~ nakened, stripped stark naked, made naked as a nail; cp. nail n. 1.(b).
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 Body & S.(5) (LdMisc 108)p.57 : Thei weren ragged, roue and tayled..Scharpe clauwes, longe nayled.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)350 : Naylyd, as fyngers, or toos: Unguatus.
b
- a1475(a1456) Shirley Death Jas.(Add 5467)26 : After that he was nalid nakynd as he was first borne of his modir.