Definition of tail

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Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.

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Maguari :: Maguari (n.) A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail..
Intermediae :: Intermediae (n. pl.) The middle pair of tail feathers, or middle rectrices..
Longtail :: Longtail (n.) An animal, particularly a log, having an uncut tail. Cf. Curtail. Dog..
Stained :: Stail (n.) A handle, as of a mop; a stale..
Bunchy :: Bunchy (a.) Growing in bunches, or resembling a bunch; having tufts; as, the bird's bunchy tail..
Piculet :: Piculet (n.) Any species of very small woodpeckers of the genus Picumnus and allied genera. Their tail feathers are not stiff and sharp at the tips, as in ordinary woodpeckers..
Redstart :: Redstart (n.) A small, handsome European singing bird (Ruticilla phoenicurus), allied to the nightingale; -- called also redtail, brantail, fireflirt, firetail. The black redstart is P.tithys. The name is also applied to several other species of Ruticilla amnd allied genera, native of India..
Swallow :: Swallow (n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight..
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..
Yellowtail :: Yellowtail (n.) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and white salmon..
Graduation :: Graduation (n.) The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc..
Lewisson :: Lewisson (n.) An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc..
Crinite :: Crinite (a.) Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.
Macacus :: Macacus (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows..
Bang :: Bang (v. t.) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair)..
Dovetailed :: Dovetailed (imp. & p. p.) of Dovetai.
Job :: "Job (v. t.) To buy and sell, as a broker; to purchase of importers or manufacturers for the purpose of selling to retailers; as, to job goods..
Cetacea :: Cetacea (n. pl.) An order of marine mammals, including the whales. Like ordinary mammals they breathe by means of lungs, and bring forth living young which they suckle for some time. The anterior limbs are changed to paddles; the tail flukes are horizontal. There are two living suborders:.
Wanderoo :: Wanderoo (n.) A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo..
Bicaudate :: Bicaudate (a.) Two-tailed; bicaudal.
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