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Tail
TAIL, n.
1. The part of an animal which terminates its body behind. In many quadrupeds, the tail is a shoot or projection covered with hair. In fowls, the tail consists of feathers, or is covered with them, which serve to assist in the direction of their flight. In fishes the tail is formed usually by a gradual sloping of the body, ending in a fin. The tail of a fish may assist the animal in steering, but its principal use is to propel the fish forward. It is the instrument of swimming.
2. The lower part,noting inferiority.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail. Deu 28.
3. Any thing hanging long; a catkin.
4. The hinder part of any thing.
5. In anatomy, that tendon of a muscle which is fixed to the movable part.
6. In botany, the tail of a seed, is a downy or feathery appendage to certain seeds, formed of the permanent elongated style.
7. Horse's tail, among the Tartars and Chinese, is an ensign or flag; among the Turks, a standard borne before the grand visier, bashaws and the sangiacs. For this purpose, it is fitted to a half-pike with a gold button, and is called toug. There are bashaws of one, two and three tails.
8. In heraldry, the tail of a hart.
9. In music, the part of a note running upwards or downwards.
10. The extremity or last end; as the tail of a storm.
Tail of a comet, a luminous train which extends from the nucleus in a direction opposite to the sun.
To turn tail, is to run away; to flee.
Tail of a lock, on a canal, the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.
Tail-piece, of a violin, is a piece of ebony attached to the end of the instrument, to which the strings are fastened.
TAIL, n. In law, an estate in tail is a limited fee; an estate limited to certain heirs, and from which the other heirs are precluded. Estates tail are general or special; general, where lands and tenements are given to one, and to the heirs of his body begotten; special, where the gift is restrained to certain heirs of the donee;s body, as to his heirs by a particular woman names. See Entail.]
TAIL, v.t. To pull by the tail.
tail appears in definitions for these words:
Abada Acolin Ahuitla Aicurus Alcor Alligator Allioth Amphisben Amyztli Ante Ape Aponeurosis Arcturus Argus-shell Armadillo Ass Baboon Bail Basking-shark Bearing-cloth Beaver Beglerbeg Belt Beluga Beverage Bison Black-chalk Blacksmith Boa Bobtail Bocaque Botcher Broad-tailed Brow Brush Bush Canary-bird Cancer Castor Cat Catkin Caudal Cetaceous Chameleon Civet Cold-finch Coluber Comet Cony Cot Coward Crocodile Crupper Cubeb Cue Culvertail Curtail-dog Curtal Customer Cut Cynosure Dependent Discontinuance Dock Dolphin Dove-tail Dove-tailed Dragon Dragon-fly Dragons-head Earwig Ecaudate Elops Ember-goose Endow Enfeoff Ermin Fan Fieldfare Fin Fit Fox Frankmarriage Frog Gaper Gilttail Godwit Goose Hare Head Hell Hyena Hymenopter Ichneumon Impeached Lion-mettled Lizard Lynx Manatus Monkey Moonet Morse Muscle Musmon Nereid Nick Node Nope Nylgau Oblada Opossum Pallet Panicle Pavonine Peacock Pendant Pigtail Polypus Porcupine Porpess Prehensile Rattlesnake Rearward Redemise Remainder Reversion Ring-streaked Rudd Rumpless Sagoin Salamander Sapajo Satyr Scorpion Scorpion-fly Scorpion-grass Scut Sea-fox Sea-needle Setaceous Shaft Sign Specht Squirrel Star Start Stave Sweep Swing Tag-tail Tail Tailage Tailings Tailoring Tenancy Tenant Tenure Thiller Tiffany Train Traveler Tropic-bird Trundle-tail Vari Votive Wag Waggle Wagtail White-horse-fish Wistit Yak Zibet
Abada Acolin Ahuitla Aicurus Alcor Alligator Allioth Amphisben Amyztli Ante Ape Aponeurosis Arcturus Argus-shell Armadillo Ass Baboon Bail Basking-shark Bearing-cloth Beaver Beglerbeg Belt Beluga Beverage Bison Black-chalk Blacksmith Boa Bobtail Bocaque Botcher Broad-tailed Brow Brush Bush Canary-bird Cancer Castor Cat Catkin Caudal Cetaceous Chameleon Civet Cold-finch Coluber Comet Cony Cot Coward Crocodile Crupper Cubeb Cue Culvertail Curtail-dog Curtal Customer Cut Cynosure Dependent Discontinuance Dock Dolphin Dove-tail Dove-tailed Dragon Dragon-fly Dragons-head Earwig Ecaudate Elops Ember-goose Endow Enfeoff Ermin Fan Fieldfare Fin Fit Fox Frankmarriage Frog Gaper Gilttail Godwit Goose Hare Head Hell Hyena Hymenopter Ichneumon Impeached Lion-mettled Lizard Lynx Manatus Monkey Moonet Morse Muscle Musmon Nereid Nick Node Nope Nylgau Oblada Opossum Pallet Panicle Pavonine Peacock Pendant Pigtail Polypus Porcupine Porpess Prehensile Rattlesnake Rearward Redemise Remainder Reversion Ring-streaked Rudd Rumpless Sagoin Salamander Sapajo Satyr Scorpion Scorpion-fly Scorpion-grass Scut Sea-fox Sea-needle Setaceous Shaft Sign Specht Squirrel Star Start Stave Sweep Swing Tag-tail Tail Tailage Tailings Tailoring Tenancy Tenant Tenure Thiller Tiffany Train Traveler Tropic-bird Trundle-tail Vari Votive Wag Waggle Wagtail White-horse-fish Wistit Yak Zibet
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