Definition of tail

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Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.

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Water Torch :: Water torch () The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil..
Tailless :: Tailless (a.) Having no tail.
Curtailment :: Curtailment (n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Finish :: Finish (n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like..
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..
Waterie :: Waterie (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.
Tail :: Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A horse, not of pure breed, but having only one eighth or one sixteenth impure blood in his veins..
Splitter :: Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck.
Adjutant :: Adjutant (n.) A regimental staff officer, who assists the colonel, or commanding officer of a garrison or regiment, in the details of regimental and garrison duty..
Swallowwort :: Swallow-tailed (a.) United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A mean, half-hearted fellow; a coward..
Swordtail :: Swordtail (n.) The limulus.
Freehold :: Freehold (n.) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held..
Materially :: Materially (adv.) In an important manner or degree; essentaily; as, it materially concern us to know the real motives of our actions..
Racktail :: Racktail (n.) An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock..
Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..
Hypural :: Hypural (a.) Under the tail; -- applied to the bones which support the caudal fin rays in most fishes.
Bobtail :: Bobtail (a.) Bobtailed.
Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..
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