Entail :: Entail (n.) The rule by which the descent is fixed.

Entail :: Entail (n.) Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio.

Entail :: Entail (n.) To settle or fix inalienably on a person or thing, or on a person and his descendants or a certain line of descendants; -- said especially of an estate; to bestow as an heritage..

Entail :: Entail (n.) To appoint hereditary possessor.

Entail :: Entail (n.) To cut or carve in a ornamental way.

Entailed :: Entailed (imp. & p. p.) of Entai.

Entailing :: Entailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Entai.

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent..

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) The condition of being entailed.

Entailment :: Entailment (n.) A thing entailed.

Fan-tailed :: Fan-tailed (a.) Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon..

Fantail :: Fantail (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail..

Fantail :: Fantail (n.) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers..

Firetail :: Firetail (n.) The European redstart; -- called also fireflirt.

Fish-tail :: Fish-tail (a.) Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish..

Fork-tailed :: Fork-tailed (a.) Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Forktail :: Forktail (n.) One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking..

Forktail :: Forktail (n.) A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

Foxtail :: Foxtail (n.) The tail or brush of a fox.

Foxtail :: Foxtail (n.) The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria..

Foxtail :: Foxtail (n.) The last cinders obtained in the fining process.

Gilttail :: Gilttail (n.) A yellow-tailed worm or larva.

Hairtail :: Hairtail (n.) Any species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; esp., T. lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail. Called also bladefish..

Hardtail :: Hardtail (n.) See Jurel.

Hare''s-tail :: Hare's-tail (n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton..

Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..

Horsetail :: Horsetail (n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum..

Horsetail :: Horsetail (n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank..

Intail :: Intail (v. t.) See Entail, v. t..

Lion''s Tail :: Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

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