Boat-tail (n.) A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. |
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 |
Hare's-tail (n.) A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). See Cotton grass, under Cotton. |
Heater (n.) One who, or that which, heats. |
Heater (n.) Any contrivance or implement, as a furnace, stove, or other heated body or vessel, etc., used to impart heat to something, or to contain something to be heated. |
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 |
Tail (n.) Same as Tailing, 4. |
Tail (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile. |
Tail (n.) See Tailing, n., 5. |
Tail (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail |
Tail (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail. |
Tail (v. i.) To hold by the end |
Tail (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction |
Tail-bay (n.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder |
Tail-bay (n.) The part of a canal lock below the lower gates. |
Tail-water (n.) Water in a tailrace. |
Teeter-tail (n.) The spotted sandpiper. See the Note under Sandpiper. |
Triple-tail (n.) An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common on the southern and middle coasts of the United States. When living it is silvery gray, and becomes brown or blackish when dead. Its dorsal and anal fins are long, and extend back on each side of the tail. It has large silvery scales which are used in the manufacture of fancy work. Called also, locally, black perch, grouper, and flasher. |
fastball heater smoke hummer bullet | (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity, he swung late on the fastball, he showed batters nothing but smoke |
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 |
dress suit full dress tailcoat tail coat tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
electric heater electric fire | a small electric space heater |
gas heater | a heater that burns gas for heat |
heater warmer | device that heats water or supplies warmth to a room |
horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
immersion heater | a heating element that is immersed in the liquid that is to be heated (as in a hot-water tank) |
kite tail | a bob on a kite to provide balance |
oil heater oilstove kerosene heater kerosine heater | heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking |
rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
solar heater | a heater that makes direct use of solar energy |
space heater | heater consisting of a selfontained (usually portable) unit to warm a room |
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 |
water heater hot-water heater hot-water tank | a heater and storage tank to supply heated water |
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? |
lobster tail | lobster tail meat, usually from spiny rock lobsters |
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 |
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 |
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 |
tail | remove the stalk of fruits or berries |
dock tail bob | remove or shorten the tail of an animal |
chase chase after trail tail tag give chase dog go after track | go after with the intent to catch, The policeman chased the mugger down the alley, the dog chased the rabbit |
d scat run scarper turn tail lam run away hightail it bunk head for the hills take to the woods escape fly the coop break away | flee, take to one's heels, cut and run, If you see this man, run!, The burglars escaped before the police showed up |