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Valve
·noun One of the two similar portions of the shell of a diatom.
II. Valve ·noun One of the pieces o...
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Tail
·noun ·see <<Tailing>>, ·noun, 5.
II. Tail ·noun Limitation; abridgment.
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tail
A prostitute. Also, a sword.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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tail
v. tr.
to herd and tend sheep or cattle:lit. to follow close behind the tail.
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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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Blow valve
·- ·see Snifting valve.
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D valve
·- A kind of slide valve. ·see Slide valve, under <<Slide>>.
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Foot valve
·add. ·- A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe; ·esp., such a valve in a steam-e...
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Kingston valve
·- A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a...
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Pilot valve
·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand.
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Shunt valve
·add. ·- A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif....
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Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
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blow-valve
A valve by which the first vacuum necessary for starting a steam-engine is produced.
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bucket-valve
In a steamer's engine, is a flat metal plate filling up the passage between the air-pump and the con...
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discharge-valve
In the marine engine, is a valve covering the top of the barrel of the air-pump, opening when presse...
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expansion-valve
In the marine engine, a valve which shuts off the steam in its passage to the slide-valves, when the...
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foot-valve
A flat plate of metal filling up the passage between the air-pump and condenser. The lower valve of ...
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safety-valve
A conical valve on the top of the steam-chest, communicating with the boiler of a steam-engine, and ...
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snifting-valve
In the marine engine (see tail-valve).
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throttle-valve
A valve in the steam-pipe of an engine for preventing the escape of steam, or regulating the velocit...
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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);
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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.
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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.
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Split-tail
·noun The pintail duck.
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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
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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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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 ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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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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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
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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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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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Double-beat valve
·- ·see under <<Valve>>.
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blow-through valve
A valve admitting steam into the condenser, in order to clear it of air and water before starting th...
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internal safety-valve
A valve opening from the outside of a steamer's boiler, in order to allow air to enter the boiler wh...
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slide-valve casing
A casing on one side of the cylinder of an engine, which covers the nozzles or steam-ports, and conf...
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slide-valve rod
A rod connecting the slide-valves of an engine, to both of which it is joined; it passes through the...
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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...
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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...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.