Tail ¹

Definition: Limitation; abridgment.

Tail ²

Definition: Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.

Tail ³

Definition: The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

Tail ⁴

Definition: Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.

Tail ⁵

Definition: Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, as opposed to the head, or the superior part.

Tail ⁶

Definition: A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

Tail ⁷

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.

Tail ⁸

Definition: The distal tendon of a muscle.

Tail ⁹

Definition: A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

Tail ¹⁰

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.

Tail ¹¹

Definition: One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.

Tail ¹²

Definition: A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.

Tail ¹³

Definition: The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

Tail ¹⁴

Definition: Same as Tailing,

Tail ¹⁵

Definition: The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.

Tail ¹⁶

Definition: See Tailing, n.,

Tail ¹⁷

Definition: To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

Tail ¹⁸

Definition: To pull or draw by the tail.

Tail ¹⁹

Definition: To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into.

Tail ²⁰

Definition: To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

tail ²¹

Definition: the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body

tail ²²

Definition: the rear part of a ship

tail ²³

Definition: the rear part of an aircraft

tail ²⁴

Definition: (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person''s head

tail ²⁵

Definition: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"

tail ²⁶

Definition: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements

tail ²⁷

Definition: any projection that resembles the tail of an animal

tail ²⁸

Definition: the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm"

tail ²⁹

Definition: remove the stalk of fruits or berries

tail ³⁰

Definition: remove or shorten the tail of an animal

tail ³¹

Definition: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit"