Definition of tailor

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Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

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Tailoress :: Tailoress (n.) A female tailor.
Mattowacca :: Mattowacca (n.) An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring..
Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
Sartorius :: Sartorius (n.) A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting..
Goose :: Goose (n.) A tailor's smoothing iron, so called from its handle, which resembles the neck of a goose..
Silversides :: Silversides (n.) Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker..
Pressman :: Pressman (n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman..
Twist :: Twist (n.) A kind of closely twisted, strong sewing silk, used by tailors, saddlers, and the like..
Bushelman :: Bushelman (n.) A tailor's assistant for repairing garments; -- called also busheler.
Hell :: Hell (v. t.) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type..
Muggletonian :: Muggletonian (n.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired..
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments..
Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The goldfish.
Draper :: Draper (n.) One who sells cloths; a dealer in cloths; as, a draper and tailor..
Snip :: Snip (n.) A tailor.
Slobberer :: Slobberer (n.) A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor.
Pricklouse :: Pricklouse (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.
Tailoring :: Tailoring (adv.) The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.
Tailored :: Tailored (imp. & p. p.) of Tailo.
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