Definition of tail

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Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.

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Slobberer :: Slobberer (n.) A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor.
Diphycercal :: Diphycercal (a.) Having the tail fin divided into two equal parts by the notochord, or end of the vertebral column; protocercal. See Protocercal..
Runner :: Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water..
Pigtail :: Pigtail (n.) A kind of twisted chewing tobacco.
Curtailment :: Curtailment (n.) The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
Smee :: Smee (n.) The pintail duck.
Stocah :: Stoat (n.) The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels..
Tag-rag :: Tag-rag (n. & a.) The lowest class of people; the rabble. Cf. Rag, tag, and bobtail, under Bobtail..
Staid :: Stail () imp. & p. p. of Stay.
Ringtail :: Ringtail (n.) A light sail set abaft and beyong the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail; -- called also ringsail.
Wiggler :: Wiggler (n.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail..
Dovetail :: Dovetail (v. t.) To cut to a dovetail.
Unfold :: Unfold (v. t.) To open, as anything covered or close; to lay open to view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science..
Rectrix :: Rectrix (n.) One of the quill feathers of the tail of a bird.
Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights..
Spermatozoid :: Spermatozoid (n.) The male germ cell in animals and plants, the essential element in fertilization; a microscopic animalcule-like particle, usually provided with one or more cilia by which it is capable of active motion. In animals, the familiar type is that of a small, more or less ovoid head, with a delicate threadlike cilium, or tail. Called also spermatozoon. In plants the more usual term is antherozoid..
Rhamphorhynchus :: Rhamphorhynchus (n.) A genus of pterodactyls in which the elongated tail supported a leathery expansion at the tip.
Tail :: Tail (n.) See Tailing, n., 5..
Whipparee :: Whipparee (n.) A large sting ray (Dasybatis, / Trygon, Sayi) native of the Southern United States. It is destitute of large spines on the body and tail..
Reed-mace :: Reed-mace (n.) The cat-tail.
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