Meaning of tail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
2. The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.
3. A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.
   Chinese
4. line , queue
5. An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
6. To ease a heavy load down a steep slope.
7. empennage, aircraft tail
8. The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
9. To diminish gradually; dwindle or subside: The fireworks tailed off into darkness.
10. train (long back section of a gown)
11. The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
12. In a state of humiliation or dejection.
13. coma (a comet's tail)
14. The tail-end of any object.
15. Limitation of the inheritance of an estate to a particular person and that person's heirs.
16. Being in tail: a tail estate.
17. The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
18. Informal. To keep (another) under surveillance by moving along behind:dog, follow, shadow, track, trail.
19. The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
20. To grow or cause to grow gradually less:abate, decrease, diminish, drain, dwindle, ebb, lessen, let up, peter (out), rebate, reduce, taper (off).
21. The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
22. to follow closely. The detectives tailed the thief to the station. agtervolg يَتْبَع عَن قُرْب следя seguir stopovat, sledovat beschatten skygge παρακολουθώ από κοντά pisarle los talones a alguien, seguir a alguien, seguir de cerca jälitama تعقیب کردن jäljittää filer לַעֲקוֹב אַחֲרֵי पीछा करना slijediti koga, pratiti (tajno) nyomon követ membuntuti fylgja (e-m) fast eftir seguire 後をつける 뒤를 밝다 sekti []sekot mengekori rapat di blkg schaduwenfølge, skyggeśledzić seguir a urmări îndeaproape неотст...
23. The part of a distribution most distant from the mode.
24. having a (certain size, type etc of) tail. a black-tailed duck; a long-tailed dog. stert ذو ذَيْل -опашат de cauda (preta, etc.) -ocasní schwänzig -halet με ουρά de cola... -sabaline ...دم -häntäinen à (la) queue (...) זָנָב- पूंछवाला, सपुच्छ, दुमदार, पुच्छी koji ima rep, s repom farkú berekor með rófu/hala/stél/sporð dalla coda (...) ―の尾をした -꼬리 -uodegis (salikteņos) -astains berekor -gestaart -halet, med ... hale o ... ogonie de cauda (preta, etc.) cu coa­dă хвостом s ... chvostom z (...) re...
    etc
25. One who surreptitiously follows another.
26. (on) the side of a coin that does not have the head of the sovereign etc on it. He tossed the coin and it came down tails. stert جِهَة قِطَعَة النُّقود التي لا تَحْمِلُ رأس الحاكِم: نَقْشَه тура coroa na rubovou stranu die Münzenrückseite plat γράμματα (για νόμισμα) cruz mündi tagakülg, kiri! خط klaava pile הַצַד הַאַחוֹרִי שֶל מַטבֵּע चित-पट naličje, pismo (kovanog novca) írás ekor bakhlið á peningi croce コインの裏(が出て) (동전의) 뒷면 atvirkštinė (monetos) pusė (monētas) raksta puse ekor keerzijde myn...
    etc
27. The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
28. The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
29. The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
    in-plural
30. All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
31. The buttocks or backside.
    US, colloquial
32. The penis of a person or animal.
    slang
33. Sexual intercourse.
    slang, uncountable
34. The stern; the back of the kayak.
35. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
36. The distal tendon of a muscle.
37. A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
38. A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
39. A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; called also tailing.
40. One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
41. A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
42. The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
43. A tailing.
44. The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
45. A tailcoat.
    colloquial, dated
46. Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).
47. The final fraction of a distillation run, typically containing impurities and fusel oils.

Equivalents

Examples

“Most primates have a tail and fangs.”

“Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.”

“And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]”

“It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's tail, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.”

“long tail”

“A sequence (a#95;n) is said to be frequently 0 if every tail of the sequence contains 0.”

“By Goddis sydes, syns I her thyder broughte, / She hath gote me more money with her tayle / Than hath some shyppe that into Bordews sayle.”

“They were wont to wipe their tailes [translating cul] (this vaine superstition of words must be left unto women) with a sponge, and that's the reason why Spongia in Latine is counted an obscene word[…].”

“I'm gonna get me some tail tonight.”

““Innarested in a little tail t’night?” “Me?” I said. Which was a very dumb answer, but it’s quite embarrassing when somebody comes right up and asks you a question like that.”

“On the bosom of young Abigail Was written the price of her tail And on her behind For the use of the blind Was the same information in Braille”

“Ah! if you Saxon Duinhé-wassal (English gentleman) saw but the chief with his tail on. […] that is, with all his usual followers”

“tail male”

limitation to male heirs

“in tail”

subject to such a limitation

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tail.”

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