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Tail   /teɪl/   Listen
Tail

noun
1.
The posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body.
2.
The time of the last part of something.  Synonyms: fag end, tail end.  "The tail of the storm"
3.
Any projection that resembles the tail of an animal.  Synonym: tail end.
4.
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.  Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, nates, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail end, tooshie, tush.  "Are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?"
5.
A spy employed to follow someone and report their movements.  Synonyms: shadow, shadower.
6.
(usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head.
7.
The rear part of an aircraft.  Synonyms: empennage, tail assembly.
8.
The rear part of a ship.  Synonyms: after part, poop, quarter, stern.
verb
1.
Go after with the intent to catch.  Synonyms: chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, track, trail.  "The dog chased the rabbit"
2.
Remove or shorten the tail of an animal.  Synonyms: bob, dock.
3.
Remove the stalk of fruits or berries.



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"Tail" Quotes from Famous Books



... you exhaust all your energy with me," I said among other things, "while in the royal presence you act the docile lamb's tail." ...
— Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess • Henry W. Fischer
... gigantic stature who occupied a cave in Mount Aventine, represented by Virgil as breathing smoke and flames of fire; stole the oxen of Hercules as he was asleep, dragging them to his cave tail foremost to deceive the owner; strangled by Hercules in his rage at the deception quite as much ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... reptile. Johnson would not admit the fact. He said, Maupertuis[159] was of opinion that it does not kill itself, but dies of the heat; that it gets to the centre of the circle, as the coolest place; that its turning its tail in upon its head is merely a convulsion, and that it does not sting itself. He said he would be satisfied if the great anatomist Morgagni, after dissecting a scorpion on which the experiment had been tried, should certify that its sting had ...
— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 2 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill
... about four men who might come off, but the M.C.C. sometimes have a bit of a tail. We ought to have a look in if ...
— A Prefect's Uncle • P. G. Wodehouse
... say a word. When a woman's fighting out things in that way it ain't no time to meddle. I wisht I was out of there, but I didn't dare go. She set and looked at the fire and wrung her hands. Whenever you see a horse wring his tail, he's done for. Whenever you see a woman wring her hands that way, she's all in; and she's shore suffering. But I had to stay there and ...
— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough


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