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. |
Chimney-piece
(n.) A decorative construction around the opening of a fireplace. |
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. |
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. |
Piece
(n.) A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing |
Piece
(n.) A definite portion or quantity, as of goods or work |
Piece
(n.) Any one thing conceived of as apart from other things of the same kind |
Piece
(n.) A literary or artistic composition |
Piece
(n.) A musket, gun, or cannon |
Piece
(n.) A coin |
Piece
(n.) A fact |
Piece
(n.) An individual |
Piece
(n.) One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn. |
Piece
(n.) A castle |
Piece
(v. t.) To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces |
Piece
(v. t.) To unite |
Piece
(v. i.) To unite by a coalescence of parts |
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 |
cinch breeze
picnic
snap duck soup
child's play
pushover
walkover
piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
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 |
bikini
two-piece | a woman's very brief bathing suit |
chessman
chess piece | any of white and black pieces used in playing the game of chess |
collector's item
showpiece
piece de resistance | the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection |
dress suit
full dress
tailcoat
tail coat
tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
firearm
piece small-arm | a portable gun, he wore his firearm in a shoulder holster |
| fowling piece | a light shotgun used for fowling |
furniture
piece of furniture
article of furniture | furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy, they had too much furniture for the small apartment, there was only one piece of furniture in the room |
| fur-piece | a neckpiece made of fur |
| horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
| kite tail | a bob on a kite to provide balance |
| knee piece | armor plate that protects the knee |
man
piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games, he taught me to set up the men on the chess board, he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage |
masking piece
masking | scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen |
objet d'art
art object
piece | a work of art of some artistic value, this store sells only objets d'art, it is not known who created this piece |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
| piece | a separate part of a whole, an important piece of the evidence |
| piece | an item that is an instance of some type, he designed a new piece of equipment, she bought a lovely piece of china, |
piece of cloth
piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric |
| piece of leather | a separate part consisting of leather |
| rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
| set piece | a piece of scenery intended to stand alone as part of the stage setting |
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 |
| three-piece suit | a business suit consisting of a jacket and vest and trousers |
two-piece two-piece suit
lounge suit | a business suit consisting of a matching jacket and skirt or trousers |
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 |
work
piece of work | a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing, it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works, the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work, he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey, the work of an active imagination, erosion is the work of wind or water over time |
yard goods
piece goods | merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard |
| piece | a distance, it is down the road a piece |
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? |
| conversation piece | something interesting that stimulates conversation |