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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

... meditating serious themes, and with a grave purpose, steps to the lecture-desk. It begins by asking the young gentlemen who have loitered into the room, and are now seated, what they think of bullying boys and hunting cats and tying kettles to a dog's tail, and seating a comrade upon tacks with the point upward. Undoubtedly they reply, with dignified nonchalance, that it is all child's play and contemptible. Undoubtedly, young gentlemen, answers the ...

— Ars Recte Vivende - Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" • George William Curtis

... send a very satisfactory answer to your health inquiries, as far as regards myself. The mean, pusillanimous fever which took under-hold of me two months ago is still THERE, as impregnably fixed as a cockle-burr in a sheep's tail. I have tried idleness, but (naturally) it won't WORK. I do no labor except works of necessity — such as kissing Mary, who is a more ravishing angel than ever — and works of mercy — such as letting off the ...

— Sidney Lanier • Edwin Mims

... tremendous adventure in the land of the Sioux and Apache,—the home of the bear and the buffalo? What city-bred boy could "hold a candle" to the glaring halo about the head of two who could claim personal acquaintance with the great war chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tail?—who had actually been to ride and hunt with that then just dawning demigod of American boyhood,—Buffalo Bill? Sneer and scoff and cavil as did their little rivals for a time, calumny was crushed and scoffers blighted that wonderful March morning ...

— Under Fire • Charles King

... reasonable, like he'd done in time if they'd just let him alone—but no, sir, he reckoned the law wa'n't no respecter of persons. He was a fine-appearin' man, that sheriff, and just elected to office. I remember we had to leave off the tail-gate to my cart to accommodate him. Yes, sir, they pretty near pestered Baldy into his grave—and seein' that pore old fellow pottering around year after year always toting a gun was the patheticest sight I most ever seen, and I made up ...

— The Prodigal Judge • Vaughan Kester

... halter[128] frae his hose, And o' his purpose he did na fail; He slipt it ower the Wanton's nose, And tied it to his gray mare's tail. ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott

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