Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.

Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The silversides.

Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The goldfish.

Tailor :: Tailor (v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.

Tailored :: Tailored (imp. & p. p.) of Tailo.

Tailoress :: Tailoress (n.) A female tailor.

Tailoring :: Tailoring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tailo.

Tailoring :: Tailoring (adv.) The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

Tailpiece :: Tailpiece (n.) A piece at the end; an appendage.

Tailpiece :: Tailpiece (n.) One of the timbers which tail into a header, in floor framing. See Illust. of Header..

Tailpiece :: Tailpiece (n.) An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book..

Tailpiece :: Tailpiece (n.) A piece of ebony or other material attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened..

Tailpin :: Tailpin (n.) The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.

Tailrace :: Tailrace (n.) See Race, n., 6..

Tailrace :: Tailrace (n.) The channel in which tailings, suspended in water, are conducted away..

Tailstock :: Tailstock (n.) The sliding block or support, in a lathe, which carries the dead spindle, or adjustable center. The headstock supports the live spindle..

Tailzie :: Tailzie (n.) An entailment or deed whereby the legal course of succession is cut off, and an arbitrary one substituted..

Teeter-tail :: Teeter-tail (n.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper.

Thorntail :: Thorntail (n.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest..

Triple-tail :: Triple-tail (n.) An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher..

Trundletail :: Trundletail (n.) A round or curled-up tail; also, a dog with such a tail..

Uptails All :: Uptails all () An old game at cards.

Uptails All :: Uptails all () Revelers; roysterers.

Uptails All :: Uptails all () Revelry; confusion; frolic.

Ventail :: Ventail (n.) That part of a helmet which is intended for the admission of air, -- sometimes in the visor..

Vitaille :: Vitaille (n.) Food; victuals.

Wagtail :: Wagtail (n.) Any one of many species of Old World singing birds belonging to Motacilla and several allied genera of the family Motacillidae. They have the habit of constantly jerking their long tails up and down, whence the name..

Water Wagtail :: Water wagtail () See under Wagtail.

Wedge-tailed :: Wedge-tailed (a.) Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedly shorter, and all more or less attenuate; -- said of certain birds. See Illust. of Wood hoopoe, under Wood..

Whitetail :: Whitetail (n.) The Virginia deer.

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