Meaning of TAIL in English
- Limitation; abridgment.
- Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
- The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
- Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
- Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
- A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
- 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.
- The distal tendon of a muscle.
- A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
- 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.
- A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
- The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
- Same as Tailing, 4.
- The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
- See Tailing, n., 5.
- 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.
- To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
- To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
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