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• Tail

  ·noun ·see <<Tailing>>, ·noun, 5. II. Tail ·noun Limitation; abridgment. III. Tail ·noun ·same·as ...

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• tail

  A prostitute. Also, a sword. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• tail

  A rope spliced into the strop or round of any block, leaving a long end for making fast to rigging, ...

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• Boat-tail

  ·noun A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States. ...

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• Box tail

  ·add. ·- In a flying machine, a tail or rudder, usually fixed, resembling a box kite. ...

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• Cat's-tail

  ·noun ·see <<Timothy>>, Cat-tail, <<Cirrus>>. ...

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• Cat-tail

  ·noun A tall rush or flag (Typha latifolia) growing in marshes, with long, flat leaves, and having i...

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• Cross-tail

  ·noun A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. ...

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• Daggle-tail

  ·noun A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail. II. Daggle-tail ·adj ·Alt. of Daggle-tailed. ...

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• Drabble-tail

  ·noun A draggle-tail; a slattern. ...

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• Draggle-tail

  ·noun A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail. ...

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• Dragon's tail

  ·- ·see Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, ·etc., under <<Dragon>>. ...

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• Fish-tail

  ·adj Like the of a fish; acting, or producing something, like the tail of a fish. ...

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• Hare's-tail

  ·noun A kind of grass (Eriophorum vaginatum). ·see Cotton grass, under <<Cotton>>. ...

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• Lion's tail

  ·- A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); — so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spike...

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• Lizard's tail

  ·- A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flower...

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• Mare's-tail

  ·noun An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls. II. Mar...

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• Racket-tail

  ·noun Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail fea...

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• Rat-tail

  ·noun Any fish of the genus Macrurus. ·see <<Grenadier>>, 2. II. Rat-tail ·noun The California chim...

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• Split-tail

  ·noun The pintail duck. II. Split-tail ·noun A california market fish (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus)...

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• Tail-bay

  ·noun The part of a canal lock below the lower gates. II. Tail-bay ·noun One of the joists which re...

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• Tail-water

  ·noun Water in a tailrace. ...

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• Teeter-tail

  ·noun The spotted sandpiper. ·see the Note under <<Sandpiper>>. ...

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• Triple-tail

  ·noun An edible fish (Lobotes Surinamensis) found in the warmer parts of all the oceans, and common ...

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• bob tail

  A lewd woman, or one that plays with her tail; also an impotent man, or an eunuch. Tag, rag, and bob...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• dove-tail

  A species of regular answer, which fits into the subject, like the contrivance whence it takes its n...

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• plug tail

  A man's penis. ...

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• swing tail

  A hog. ...

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• swish tail

  A pheasant; so called by the persons who sell game for the poachers. ...

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• tickle tail

  A rod, or schoolmaster. A man's penis. ...

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• brown-tail

  n. bird-name for the TasmanianTit. See Tit. 1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iii, pl. 54...

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• cat's tail

  n. See wonga. ...

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• jolly-tail

  n. a Tasmanian name for the largervariety of the fish Galaxias attenuatus, Jenyns, andother species...

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• ring-tail

  or Ring-tailed Opossum n. See pseudochirus and opossum. ...

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• silver-tail

  n. a bush term for a «swell» :a man who goes to the manager's house, not to the men's hut.See Hut. ...

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• whip-tail

  n. 1) A fancy name for a smallKangaroo. See Pretty-Faces, quotation. 2) A Tasmanian fish; see unde...

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• yellow-tail

  n. The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....

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• club-tail

  (Genus alosa.) The common shad, the fatter portion of which have the tail swollen, and on the coast ...

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• swingle-tail

  (Genus, carcharias. Cuvier.) The popular name for the Thresher Shark, from the use it makes of its l...

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• tail-race

  The water course leading from a mill after it has passed the water-wheel. ...

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• cawsie-tail

  a dunce. N. Rather CAWFE-TAIL, i. e. calf-tail. Lane. ...

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• crotch-tail

  a kite. ...

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• tail-ends

  the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own con...

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• cat's-tail

  The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam. ...

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• cross-tail

  In a steam-engine, is of the same form as the cylinder cross-head: it has iron straps catching the p...

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• culver-tail

  The fastenings of a ship's carlings into the beams. ...

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• dog's tail

  A name for the constellation Ursa Minor or Little Bear. ...

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• dove-tail

  The fastening or letting in of one timber into another by a dove-tailed end and score, so that they ...

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• monkey-tail

  A lever for training a carronade. ...

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• pig-tail

  The common twisted tobacco for chewing. ...

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• pin-tail

  The Anas acuta, a species of duck with a long pointed tail. Also, in artillery, the iron pin on the ...

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• rat's-tail

  The tapering end of a rope. Also, the round tapered file for enlarging holes in metal. ...

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• ring-tail

  A kind of studding-sail hoisted beyond the after edge of those sails which are extended by a gaff an...

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• swallow's tail

  In fortification, an old form of outwork, having its front broken into a re-entering angle, and its ...

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• tail-block

  A rope-stropped block, having an end of rope attached to it as a tail, by which it may be fastened t...

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• tail on

  , or tally on The order to clap on to a rope. ...

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• tail-race

  The water which leaves the paddles of a steam-boat. Also, the water-course of a mill beyond the wate...

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• tail-tackle

  A luff-tackle purchase, with a hook in the end of the single block, and a tail to the upper end of t...

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• tail up

  When a whale dives perpendicularly. In this case whalers expect the fish to rise near the same spot....

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• tail-valve

  A valve in the air-pump at the opposite side from the condenser, and connected with the latter by a ...

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• yellow-tail

  A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...

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• Dog's-tail grass

  ·noun A hardy species of British grass (Cynosurus cristatus) which abounds in grass lands, and is we...

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• bang-tail muster

  See quotation. 1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61: «Every third...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• kangaroo-tail soup

  n. soup made from thekangaroo-tail. 1820. W. C. Wentworth, `Description of New South Wales,'p. 58:...

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• mersey jolly-tail

  n. See jolly-tail. ...

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• pieman jolly-tail

  n. See jolly-tail. ...

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• rat-tail grass

  n. name given to – – (1) Ischaemum laxum, R. Br., N.O. Gramineae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Nati...

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• cat-tail grass

  Herds grass, or timothy. ...

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• dove-tail plates

  Metal plates resembling dove-tails in form, let into the heel of the stern-post and the keel, to bin...

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• tail of a gale

  The latter part of a gale, when its violence is dying out. ...

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• to get the wrong pig by the tail

  is to make a mistake in selecting a person for any object. If a charge is made against a man, who on...

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