Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. |
Boom (n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail |
Boom (n.) A long spar or beam, projecting from the mast of a derrick, from the outer end of which the body to be lifted is suspended. |
Boom (n.) A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. |
Boom (n.) A strong chain cable, or line of spars bound together, extended across a river or the mouth of a harbor, to obstruct navigation or passage. |
Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away. |
Boom (v. t.) To extend, or push, with a boom or pole |
Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note |
Boom (v. i.) To make a hollow sound, as of waves or cannon. |
Boom (v. i.) To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind. |
Boom (v. i.) To have a rapid growth in market value or in popular favor |
Boom (n.) A hollow roar, as of waves or cannon |
Boom (n.) A strong and extensive advance, with more or less noisy excitement |
Boom (v. t.) To cause to advance rapidly in price |
Cat's-tail (n.) See Timothy, Cat-tail, Cirrus. |
Cat-tail (n.) A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having its flowers in a close cylindrical spike at the top of the stem. The leaves are frequently used for seating chairs, making mats, etc. See Catkin. |
Cross-tail (n.) A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. |
Daggle-tail (a.) Alt. of Daggle-tailed |
Daggle-tail (n.) A slovenly woman |
Dog's-tail grass (n.) A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is well suited for making straw plait |
Drabble-tail (n.) A draggle-tail |
Draggle-tail (n.) A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire |
Dragon's tail () See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon. |
Fish-tail (a.) Like the of a fish |
Gib boom () See Jib boom. |
Hare's-tail (n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. |
Lion's tail () A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus) |
Lizard's tail () A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail |
Mare's-tail (n.) A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain |
Mare's-tail (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls. |
Racket-tail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped. |
Rat-tail (a.) Like a rat's tail in form |
Rat-tail (n.) An excrescence growing from the pastern to the middle of the shank of a horse. |
Rat-tail (n.) The California chimaera. See Chimaera. |
Rat-tail (n.) Any fish of the genus Macrurus. See Grenadier, 2. |
Split-tail (n.) A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) belonging to the Carp family. |
Split-tail (n.) The pintail duck. |
Tail (n.) Limitation |
Tail (a.) Limited |
Tail (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal. |
Tail (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage |
Tail (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. |
Tail (n.) A train or company of attendants |
Tail (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date |
Tail (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle. |
Tail (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style. |
Tail (n.) 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 |
Tail (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times. |
Tail (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything. |
Tail (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head |
c fuck fucking screw screwing ass nooky nookie piece of ass piece of tail roll in the hay shag shtup ff | slang for sexual intercourse |
sharp-tailed grouse sprigtail sprig tail Pedioecetes phasianellus | large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America |
band-tailed pigeon band-tail pigeon bandtail Columba fasciata | wild pigeon of western North America, often mistaken for the now extinct passenger pigeon |
tail | the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body |
browntail brown-tail moth Euproctis phaeorrhoea | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States, pest of various shade and fruit trees |
gold-tail moth Euproctis chrysorrhoea | white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft |
brush-tailed porcupine brush-tail porcupine | porcupine with a tuft of large beaded bristles on the tail |
Virginia deer white tail whitetail white-tailed deer whitetail deer Odocoileus Virginianus | common North American deer, tail has a white underside |
tail fin caudal fin | the tail of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates |
tail feather | feather growing from the tail (uropygium) of a bird |
pentail pen-tail pen-tailed tree shrew | brown tree shrew having a naked tail bilaterally fringed with long stiff hairs on the distal third, of Malaysia |
boom | any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring |
boom microphone boom | a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set |
dress suit full dress tailcoat tail coat tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
ghetto blaster boom box | a portable stereo |
horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
kite tail | a bob on a kite to provide balance |
rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
stern after part quarter poop tail | the rear part of a ship |
tail tail assembly empennage | the rear part of an aircraft |
tail | (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head |
tail fin tailfin fin | one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile |
tail gate | a gate downstream from a lock or canal that is used to control the flow of water at the lower end |
taillight tail lamp rear light rear lamp | lamp (usually red) mounted at the rear of a motor vehicle |
tail rotor anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
vertical stabilizer vertical stabiliser vertical fin tail fin tailfin | a stabilizer that is part of the vertical tail structure of an airplane |
vertical tail | the vertical airfoil in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
coccyx tail bone | the end of the vertebral column in humans and tailless apes |
c buttocks nates arse butt backside bum buns can fundament hindquarters hind end keister posterior prat rear rear end rump stern seat tail tail end tooshie tush bottom behind derriere fanny ass a d | the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on, he deserves a good kick in the butt, are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing? |
sonic boom | an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound, a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship |
boom roar roaring thunder | a deep prolonged loud noise |
boom bonanza gold rush gravy godsend manna from heaven windfall bunce | a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money), the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line |
lobster tail | lobster tail meat, usually from spiny rock lobsters |
baby boom baby-boom generation | the larger than expected generation in United States born shortly after World War II |
boom town | a town enjoying sudden prosperity |
mare's tail | a long narrow flowing cirrus cloud |
tail shadow shadower | a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements |
anthurium tailflower tail-flower | any of various tropical American plants cultivated for their showy foliage and flowers |
rattail cactus rat's-tail cactus Aporocactus flagelliformis | commonly cultivated tropical American cactus having slender creeping stems and very large showy crimson flowers that bloom for several days |
cat's-tail bullrush bulrush nailrod reed mace reedmace Typha latifolia | tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down, its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats, of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa |
kaffir boom Cape kafferboom Erythrina caffra | small semi-evergreen broad-spreading tree of eastern South Africa with orange-scarlet flowers and small coraled seeds, yields a light soft wood used for fence posts or shingles |
kaffir boom Transvaal kafferboom Erythrina lysistemon | small semi-evergreen tree of South Africa having dense clusters of clear scarlet flowers and red seeds |
Saururaceae family Saururaceae lizard's-tail family | family of perennial aromatic herbs: genera Saururus, Anemopsis, Houttuynia |
lizard's-tail swamp lily water dragon Saururus cernuus | North American herbaceous perennial of wet places having slender curled racemes of small white flowers |
fee tail | a fee limited to a particular line of heirs, they are not free to sell it or give it away |
tail tail end | any projection that resembles the tail of an animal |
boom | a state of economic prosperity |
fag end tail tail end | the time of the last part of something, the fag end of this crisisidden century, the tail of the storm |
boom thrive flourish expand | grow vigorously, The deer population in this town is thriving, business is booming |
tail | remove the stalk of fruits or berries |