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Archaeopteryx :: Archaeopteryx (n.) A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebrae with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics..

Nozzle :: Nozzle (n.) A short tube, usually tapering, forming the vent of a hose or pipe..

Rat-tail :: Rat-tail (a.) Like a rat's tail in form; as, a rat-tail file, which is round, slender, and tapering. See Illust. of File..

Tapering :: Tapering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tape.

Club :: Club (n.) A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel..

Taperness :: Taperness (n.) The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.

Fid :: Fid (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing..

Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..

Fusiform :: Fusiform (a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell..

Terebra :: Terebra (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell..

Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..

Swallow-tailed :: Swallow-tailed (a.) Having a tail like that of a swallow; hence, like a swallow's tail in form; having narrow and tapering or pointed skirts; as, a swallow-tailed coat..

Rat :: Rat (n.) A round and tapering mass of hair, or similar material, used by women to support the puffs and rolls of their natural hair..

Acumination :: Acumination (n.) A sharpening; termination in a sharp point; a tapering point.

Whip-shaped :: Whip-shaped (a.) Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem..

Plug :: Plug (n.) A high, tapering silk hat..

Yard :: Yard (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship..

Cue :: Cue (n.) A straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in playing billiards.

Stal :: Staktometer (n.) A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette..

Terete :: Terete (a.) Cylindrical and slightly tapering; columnar, as some stems of plants..

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