1. (n.) The claw of a predaceous bird or animal, especially the claw of a bird of prey.

2. (n.) One of certain small prominences on the hind part of the face of an elephant's tooth.

3. (n.) A kind of molding, concave at the bottom and convex at the top; -- usually called an ogee.

4. (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.

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