The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything,
A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse;
The distal tendon of a muscle.
A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. it is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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;
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
Same as tailing, 4.
The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
See tailing, n., 5.
To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
To pull or draw by the tail.
To hold by the end;
To swing with the stern in a certain direction;
Any tail, or taillike structure, or tapering or elongated extremity of an organ or other part.
