tail

The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to their posterior and near the anus or cloaca.

Most primates have a tail and fangs.

An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.

Duretus writes a great praise of the Distill'd waters of those tails that hang on Willow Trees.

The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.

The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.

The tail-end of any object.

And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the taile, […]

It was soon over, and the unmoved magistrate calmly ordained that Deborah Williams, Elizabeth and Faith Wilson, should be tied to a cart's tail, and thus led through the principal streets of the town, receiving during their progress twenty lashes each, well laid on, upon the naked back.

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.

This vessel tails downstream.

To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.

Nevertheless his bond of two thousand pounds, wherewith he was tailed, continued uncancelled.

To follow and observe surreptitiously.

Tail that car!

To pull or draw by the tail.

The conqu'ring foe they soon afailid, First Trulla stav'd, and Cerdon tail'd

Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

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