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- English Word Tail Definition Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
- English Word Tail Definition The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
- English Word Tail Definition Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
- English Word Tail Definition Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
- English Word Tail Definition A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- English Word Tail Definition The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
- English Word Tail Definition The distal tendon of a muscle.
- English Word Tail Definition A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
- English Word Tail Definition A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
- English Word Tail Definition One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- English Word Tail Definition A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- English Word Tail Definition The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- English Word Tail Definition Same as Tailing, 4.
- English Word Tail Definition The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
- English Word Tail Definition See Tailing, n., 5.
- English Word Tail Definition To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- English Word Tail Definition To pull or draw by the tail.
- English Word Tail Definition To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
- English Word Tail Definition To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
- English Word Tail-bay Definition The part of a canal lock below the lower gates.
- English Word Tail-bay Definition One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay.
- English Word Tail-water Definition Water in a tailrace.
- English Word Tailage Definition See Tallage.
- English Word Tailblock Definition A block with a tail. See Tail, 9.
- English Word Tailboard Definition The board at the rear end of a cart or wagon, which can be removed or let down, for convenience in loading or unloading.
- English Word Tailed Definition Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
- English Word Tailing Definition The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
- English Word Tailing Definition The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
- English Word Tailing Definition Sexual intercourse.
- English Word Tailing Definition Same as Tail, n., 8 (a).