Etymology : Middle English, from Old English tægel; akin to Old High German zagal tail, Middle Irish dúal lock of hair
Pronunciation : 'tA(&)l
Function : noun
Date : before 12th century
1. rear appendage on some animals; longer section at the back of an evening dress or jacket; detective who follows a person and keeps track of his activities; woman as a sex object (Derogatory Slang); buttocks, derriere (Slang). remove the tail of an animal; furnish with a tail; come after, follow behind; gradually stop or disappear; follow a person in order to observe his activities. of or pertaining to a tail; situated in the tail or rear section (as of an aircraft). tail\tail\, n.
2. pl. (rope making) in some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
3. pl. a tailed coat; a tail coat. [colloq. or dial.]tail \tail\, n. (aëronautics) in flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability.tail \tail\ , n. [f. taille a cutting. see:
entail, tally.] (law) limitation; abridgment.
4. Limitation; abridgment.
5. Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
6. The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
7. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
8. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
9. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
10. 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.
11. The distal tendon of a muscle.
12. A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes.
13. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
14. 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.
15. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
16. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
17. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
18. Same as Tailing, 4.
19. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
20. See Tailing, n., 5.
21. To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
22. To pull or draw by the tail.
23. To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into.
24. To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
25. In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
26. A tailed coat; a tail coat.
27. In flying machines, a plane or group of planes used at the rear to confer stability. the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body the rear part of an aircraft the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements any projection that resembles the tail of an animal remove the stalk of fruits or berries.
28. 1. The tail of an animal, bird, or fish is the part extending beyond the end of its body. a black dog with a long tail. + -tailed -tailed white-tailed deer.
29. You can use tail to refer to the end or back of something, especially something long and thin. the horizontal stabilizer bar on the plane's tail.
30. If a man is wearing tails, he is wearing a formal jacket which has two long pieces hanging down at the back.
31. To tail someone means to follow close behind them and watch where they go and what they do. Officers had tailed the gang from London during a major undercover inquiry He trusted her so little that he had her tailed. = shadow.
32. If you toss a coin and it comes down tails, you can see:
the side of it that does not have a picture of a head on it.
33. emphasis If you say that you have your tail between your legs, you are emphasizing that you feel defeated and ashamed. His team retreated last night with tails tucked firmly between their legs.
34. cannot make head or tail of something: see:
head. Being in tail: a tail estate. to follow someone and watch what they do, where they go etc. Extension of the vertebral column beyond the trunk, or any slender projection resembling such a structure. In fishes and other animals living completely or partly in water, it is very important to movement through water. Many tree-dwelling animals (e.g., squirrels) use the tail for balance and as a rudder when leaping; in some (e.g., certain monkeys), it is adapted for grasping. Birds' tail feathers aid in flight maneuverability. Other animals use their tails for defense (e.g., porcupines), social signals (e.g., dogs and cats), warning signals (e.g., deer and rattlesnakes), and hunting (e.g., alligators). whip tailed ray free tailed bat white tailed deer.
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