Tail(n.)
- The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Tail(n.)
- Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Tail(n.)
- Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
Tail(n.)
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
Tail(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.
Tail(n.)
- A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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.
Tail(n.)
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
Tail(n.)
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
Tail(n.)
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Tailing(n.)
- The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.
Tailing(n.)
- The refuse part of stamped ore, thrown behind the tail of the buddle or washing apparatus. It is dressed over again to secure whatever metal may exist in it. Called also tails.
Tailings
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Tails
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