Tail
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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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Noun
- Template:SenseidTemplate:Lb The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
- An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
- The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
- The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
- The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
- The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
- Template:Lb The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
- The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
- Template:Lb The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
- One who surreptitiously follows another.
- Template:Lb The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
- Template:Lb The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
- Template:Lb The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
- Template:Lb All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
- Template:Lb The buttocks or backside.
- Template:Lb The penis of a person or animal.
- Template:Lb Sexual intercourse.
- Template:Lb The stern; the back of the kayak.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- Template:Lb The distal tendon of a muscle.
- Template:Lb A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
- A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
- Template:Lb 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.
- One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
- Template:Lb A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- Template:Lb The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.[1]
- Template:Lb A tailing.
- Template:Lb The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
- Template:Lb A tailcoat.
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Verb
- Template:Lb To follow and observe surreptitiously.
- Template:Lb To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
- Template:Lb To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
- To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
- To pull or draw by the tail.
Translations
- Bulgarian: Template:T+
- Chinese:
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- Czech: Template:T+
- Dutch: Template:T+, Template:T
- Esperanto: Template:T
- Finnish: Template:T+
- German: Template:T+
- Hebrew: Template:T
- Hungarian: Template:T+
- Italian: Template:T+
- Japanese: Template:T+
- Macedonian: Template:T
- Norwegian: Template:T+, Template:T+
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- Slovak: Template:T
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Etymology 2
From Template:Der, probably from a shortened form of entail.
Adjective
- Template:Lb Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
- estate tail
Noun
- Template:Lb Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
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References
- ↑ 1852, John Weeks Moore, Complete Encyclopædia of Music