nail-headed : Idioms & Phrases


Nail-headed characters

  • arrowheaded or cuneiform characters. See under Arrowheaded.
Webster 1913

Nail-headed molding

  • (Arch.), an ornament consisting of a series of low four-sided pyramids resembling the heads of large nails; called also nail-head molding, or nail-head. It is the same as the simplest form of dogtooth. See Dogtooth.
Webster 1913