| • | Limitation; abridgment. |
| • | Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail. |
| • | 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, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part. |
| • | 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; -- rarely used except in the expression "heads or tails," employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall. |
| • | 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; -- called also tailing. |
| • | 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; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into. |
| • | To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream. |
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