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Hydrophid :: Hydrophid (n.) Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. These snakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail for swimming..

Club-rush :: Club-rush (n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush..

Prolixity :: Prolixity (n.) The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings..

Whidah Bird :: Whidah bird () Any one of several species of finchlike birds belonging to the genus Vidua, native of Asia and Africa. In the breeding season the male has very long, drooping tail feathers. Called also vida finch, whidah finch, whydah bird, whydah finch, widow bird, and widow finch..

Cercaria :: Cercaria (n.) The larval form of a trematode worm having the shape of a tadpole, with its body terminated by a tail-like appendage..

Entailed :: Entailed (imp. & p. p.) of Entai.

Lanneret :: Lanneret (n. m.) A long-tailed falcon (Falco lanarius), of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa, resembling the American prairie falcon..

Draggle-tail :: Draggle-tail (n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

Cat :: Cat (n.) A cat o' nine tails. See below.

Vitaille :: Vitaille (n.) Food; victuals.

Draggle-tailed :: Draggle-tailed (a.) Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.

Civet :: Civet (n.) The animal that produces civet (Viverra civetta); -- called also civet cat. It is carnivorous, from two to three feet long, and of a brownish gray color, with transverse black bands and spots on the body and tail. It is a native of northern Africa and of Asia. The name is also applied to other species..

Formedon :: Formedon (n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

Graduated :: Graduated (a.) Tapered; -- said of a bird's tail when the outer feathers are shortest, and the others successively longer..

Dovetailed :: Dovetailed (imp. & p. p.) of Dovetai.

Particularment :: Particularment (n.) A particular; a detail.

Retrench :: Retrench (v. t.) To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses..

Coldfinch :: Coldfinch (n.) A British wagtail.

Grackle :: Grackle (n.) One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridae; as, the rusty grackle (Scolecophagus Carolinus); the boat-tailed grackle (see Boat-tail); the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow..

Bobtailed :: Bobtailed (a.) Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, a bobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat..

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