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- 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 Taille Definition A tally; an account scored on a piece of wood.
- English Word Taille Definition Any imposition levied by the king, or any other lord, upon his subjects.
- English Word Taille Definition The French name for the tenor voice or part; also, for the tenor viol or viola.
- English Word Tailless Definition Having no tail.
- English Word Taillie Definition Same as Tailzie.
- English Word Tailor Definition One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
- English Word Tailor Definition The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
- English Word Tailor Definition The silversides.
- English Word Tailor Definition The goldfish.
- English Word Tailor Definition To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
- English Word Tailored Definition of Tailor
- English Word Tailoress Definition A female tailor.
- English Word Tailoring Definition of Tailor
- English Word Tailoring Definition The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
- English Word Tailpiece Definition A piece at the end; an appendage.
- English Word Tailpiece Definition One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header.
- English Word Tailpiece Definition An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book.
- English Word Tailpiece Definition A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
- English Word Tailpin Definition The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.
- English Word Tailrace Definition See Race, n., 6.
- English Word Tailrace Definition The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away.
- English Word Tailstock Definition The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle.
- English Word Tailzie Definition An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted.
- English Word Tain Definition Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.
- English Word Taint Definition To be infected or corrupted; to be touched with something corrupting.
- English Word Taint Definition A blemish on reputation; stain; spot; disgrace.
- English Word Taint Definition Infection; corruption; deprivation.
- English Word Taint Definition Tincture; hue; color; tinge.
- English Word Taint Definition To be affected with incipient putrefaction; as, meat soon taints in warm weather.