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Whipstitch :: Whipstitch (n.) A tailor; -- so called in contempt.

Uropygial :: Uropygial (a.) Of or pertaining to the uropygium, or prominence at the base of the tail feathers, in birds..

Portal :: Portal (n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church..

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..

Tail :: Tail (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part..

Muggletonian :: Muggletonian (n.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired..

Spindling :: Spindleworm (n.) The larva of a noctuid mmoth (Achatodes zeae) which feeds inside the stalks of corn (maize), sometimes causing much damage. It is smooth, with a black head and tail and a row of black dots across each segment..

Sea Pheasant :: Sea pheasant () The pintail duck.

Pigtail :: Pigtail (n.) The tail of a pig.

Tailor :: Tailor (n.) The goldfish.

Spermist :: Spermist (n.) A believer in the doctrine, formerly current, of encasement in the male (see Encasement), in which the seminal thread, or spermatozoid, was considered as the real animal germ, the head being the true animal head and the tail the body..

Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off, bar, or destroy; as, to dock an entail..

Split-tail :: Split-tail (n.) A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family.

Lobated :: Lobated (a.) Having lobes; -- said of the tails of certain fishes having the integument continued to the bases of the fin rays.

Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..

Tail :: Tail (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.

Taphouse :: Taphouse (n.) A house where liquors are retailed.

Curtail :: Curtail (v. t.) To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce..

Scammel :: Scammel (n.) The female bar-tailed godwit.

Flag :: Flag (n.) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter..

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