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abada
acolin
ahuitla
aicurus
alcor
ale-house
alligator
allioth
alpia
alpist
amphisbena
amyztli
ape
aponeurosy
arcturus
argus-shell
armadillo
articulately
arundelian
ass
baboon
bail
basking-shark
battailant
battailous
beam
beaver
beglerbeg
belt
beluga
beverage
bison
boa
bob-tailed
bobtail
bocaque
botcher
broad-tailed
brush
bush
cabaret
canary-bird
cancer
castor
cat
cat-tail
catkin
caudal
cetaceous
chameleon
civet
classically
clip
clipped
clipping
clipt
clough
cold-finch
coluber
comet
common
cony
cornet
cot
coward
crocodile
crupper
cubeb
cue
culvertail
culvertailed
curtail
curtail-dog
curtailed
curtailing
curtal
customer
cut
cynosure
daggle-tail
darrain
dependent
detail
detailed
detailer
detailing
discontinuance
dock
dolphin
donee
dove-tail
dove-tailed
dove-tailing
draggle-tail
dragon
dragon-fly
dragons-head
earwig
ecaudate
eigne
elops
ember-goose
endow
enfeoff
entail
epitomize
ermine
excise
fan
fee-tail
fieldfare
fin
fit
forktail
fox
foxtail
frankmarriage
freehold
freeholder
frog
gaper
generally
gentilitious
gilttail
godwit
goose
green-grocer
hare
head
hell
horsetail
huckster
hyena
hymenoptera
ichneumon
impeached
lengthy
license
lizard
lizard-tail
lynx
maki
manatus
mangle
minor
minute
minuteness
monkey
morse
motacil
mouse-tail
muscle
musquash
nereid
nick
node
nope
nylgau
oblada
opossum
pallet
panicle
particular
particularity
particularize
pavonine
peacock
peddle
pendant
pigtail
polypus
porcupine
porpess
prehensile
prolixness
rationale
rattlesnake
rearward
recount
recounted
recountment
redemise
redtail
rehearsal
remainder
retrench
retrenched
retrenching
retrenchment
reversion
rudd
rumpless
sagoin
salamander
sapajo
satyr
scorpion
scorpion-fly
scut
sea-fox
sea-needle
sea-pheasant
setaceous
shop
shopkeeper
shorten
sign
specuation
squirrel
star
start
stave
store
swallow-tail
swallows-tail
sweep
swing
tag-tail
tail
tailed
tailings
tailoring
tenancy
tenant
tenon
tenure
thimble
tiffany
trade
tradesman
traffick
train
transaction
traveler
tropic-bird
trubtail
trundle-tail
trunk
trunked
uncurtailed
unfalcated
vari
votive
wag
waggle
wagtail
wheat-ear
white-ear
white-horse-fish
white-tail
wholesale
wistit
yak
zibet



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TAIL, n.

1. The part of an animal which terminates its body behind. In many quadrupeds, the tail is a shoot or projection covered with hair. In fowls, the tail consists of feathers, or is covered with them, which serve to assist in the direction of their flight. In fishes the tail is formed usually by a gradual sloping of the body, ending in a fin. The tail of a fish may assist the animal in steering, but its principal use is to propel the fish forward. It is the instrument of swimming.

2. The lower part,noting inferiority.

The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut.28.

3. Any thing hanging long; a catkin.

4. The hinder part of any thing.

5. In anatomy, that tendon of a muscle which is fixed to the movable part.

6. In botany, the tail of a seed, is a downy or feathery appendage to certain seeds, formed of the permanent elongated style.

7. Horse's tail, among the Tartars and Chinese, is an ensign or flag; among the Turks, a standard borne before the grand visier, bashaws and the sangiacs. For this purpose, it is fitted to a half-pike with a gold button, and is called toug. There are bashaws of one, two and three tails.

8. In heraldry, the tail of a hart.

9. In music, the part of a note running upwards or downwards.

10. The extremity or last end; as the tail of a storm.

Tail of a comet, a luminous train which extends from the nucleus in a direction opposite to the sun.

To turn tail, is to run away; to flee.

Tail of a lock, on a canal, the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.

Tail-piece, of a violin, is a piece of ebony attached to the end of the instrument, to which the strings are fastened.

TAIL, n. In law, an estate in tail is a limited fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded. Estates tail are general or special; general, where lands and tenements are given to one, and to the heirs of his body begotten; special, where the gift is restrained to certain heirs of the donee;s body, as to his heirs by a particular woman names. See Entail.]

TAIL, v.t. To pull by the tail.

1913 Definition
Tail (tail)
n.(?)
Tail
[F. taille a cutting. See Entail, Tally.] (Law)
  1. Limitation; abridgment.
    Burrill.

    Estate in tail, a limited, abridged, or reduced fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded; -- called also estate tail. Blackstone.

  2. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
  3. The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.

    * The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebræ, and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebræ which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.

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

    Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees. Harvey.

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

    The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deut. xxviii. 13.

  6. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

    "Ah," said he, "if you saw but the chief with his tail on." Sir W. Scott.

  7. 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.
  8. The distal tendon of a muscle.
  9. A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
  10. 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.
    (b)
  11. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
  12. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
    Moore (Encyc. of Music).
  13. Same as Tailing, 4.
  14. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
  15. See Tailing, n., 5.

    Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail coverts (Zoöl.), the feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under tail coverts. -- Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.] -- Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece. -- Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun. -- Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated. Totten. -- Tail of a lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond. -- Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach. -- Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle. -- To turn tail, to run away; to flee.

    Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch. Sir P. Sidney.

  16. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
    [Obs.]

    Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncanceled, and was called on the next Parliament. Fuller.

  17. To pull or draw by the tail.
    [R.] Hudibras.

    To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a timber.

  18. To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
  19. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

    Tail on. (Naut.) See Tally on, under Tally.

  20. In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
  21. A tailed coat; a tail coat.
    [Colloq. or Dial.]
  22. In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability.

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