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 |
Detector
(n.) One who, or that which, detects |
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. |
Marker
(n.) One who or that which marks. |
Marker
(n.) One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards. |
Marker
(n.) A counter used in card playing and other games. |
Marker
(n.) The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment. |
Marker
(n.) An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it. |
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. |
Railway
(n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway
(n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
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 |
Underground Railroad
Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
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 |
| billiard marker | a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards |
cable railway
funicular
funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar
railway car
railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
| crystal detector | a detector consisting of a fine wire in contact with a galena crystal, acts as a rectifier |
detector
sensor
sensing element | any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner |
| detector | electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity |
| detector demodulator | rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave |
dress suit
full dress
tailcoat
tail coat
tails white tie white tie and tails | formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men |
elevated railway
elevated railroad
elevated
el
overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
felt-tip pen
felt-tipped pen
felt tip
Magic Marker | a pen with a writing tip made of felt (trade name Magic Marker) |
| horizontal tail | the horizontal stabilizer and elevator in the tail assembly of an aircraft |
| kite tail | a bob on a kite to provide balance |
| lie detector | a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying |
line railway line
rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive
engine locomotive engine
railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
| marker | some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something, the buoys were markers for the channel |
| marker | a writing implement for making a mark |
| metal detector | detector that gives a signal when it detects the presence of metal, used to detect the presence of stray bits of metal in food products or to find buried metal |
| mine detector | detector consisting of an electromagnetic device, used to locate explosive mines |
| particle detector | a chamber in which particles can be made visible |
railroad track
railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway
railroad
railroad line
railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
| railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station
railroad station
railroad terminal
train station
train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
| rat-tail file | a thin round file shaped like the tail of a rat |
| scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
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 |
| trace detector | a screening device for traces of explosives, used at airline terminals |
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 |
yard railway yard
railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |