Tail

(n.) Limitation; abridgment.

Tail - Other Definitions

(n.) Limitation; abridgment.
(a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
(n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
(n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
(n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
(n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
(n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
(n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
(n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
(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.
(n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
(n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
(n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
(n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
(v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
(v. t.) To pull or draw by the 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.
(v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
(a.) Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.

Tail - 142 Partial Matches Found (Page 1 of 2)

Aventail	Batailled	Battailant	Battailous	Blacktail
Boat-tail	Bobtail	Bobtailed	Brantail	Bristletail
Cat's-tail	Cat-tail	Cocktail	Cottontail	Countretaille
Crop-tailed	Cross-tail	Culvertail	Culvertailed	Curtail
Curtailed	Curtailer	Curtailing	Curtailment	Dag-tailed
Daggle-tail	Daggle-tailed	Detail	Detailed	Detailer
Detailing	Disentail	Dog's-tail	Dovetail	Dovetailed
Dovetailing	Drabble-tail	Draggle-tail	Draggle-tailed	Embattail
Entail	Entailed	Entailing	Entailment	Fan-tailed
Fantail	Firetail	Fish-tail	Fork-tailed	Forktail
Foxtail	Gilttail	Hairtail	Hardtail	Hare's-tail
Horntail	Horsetail	Intail	Longtail	Mare's-tail
Monkeytail	Mousetail	Pentail	Pigtail	Pigtailed
Piketail	Pin-tailed	Pintail	Ploughtail	Plowtail
Quaketail	Racket-tail	Racket-tailed	Racktail	Rat-tail
Rat-tailed	Red-tailed	Redtail	Retail	Retailed
Retailer	Retailing	Retailment	Ring-tailed	Ringtail
Roughtail	Ruby-tailed	Rubytail	Scissors-tailed	Scissorstail
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