Definition of tail

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Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

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Tailoring :: Tailoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tailo.
Trunk :: Trunk (v. t.) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate; to maim.
Snail :: Snail (n.) A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock..
Stiff-tailed :: Stifftail (n.) The ruddy duck.
Pioneer :: Pioneer (n.) A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances..
Mademoiselle :: Mademoiselle (n.) A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch..
Particularize :: Particularize (v. t.) To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail..
Cocktail :: Cocktail (n.) A species of rove beetle; -- so called from its habit of elevating the tail.
Anura :: Anura (n. pl.) One of the orders of amphibians characterized by the absence of a tail, as the frogs and toads..
Botcher :: Botcher (n.) One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler..
Grouper :: Grouper (n.) The tripletail (Lobotes).
Stern :: Stern (v. t.) The tail of an animal; -- now used only of the tail of a dog.
Tail :: Tail (n.) 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..
Tatou :: Tatou (n.) The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and sometimes invades human graves..
Prolixity :: Prolixity (n.) The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minute detail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings..
Retail :: Retail (v.) The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand..
Culvertailed :: Culvertailed (a.) United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.
Covert :: Covert (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
Yellowtail :: Yellowtail (n.) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon..
Start :: Start (v. i.) The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle..
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