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Tailed
·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails;
— chiefly used in composition; as, bob...
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Pin
·noun Mood; humor.
II. Pin ·noun A rolling-pin.
III. Pin ·noun The tenon of a dovetail joint.
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pin
In or to a merry pin; almost drunk: an allusion to a sort of tankard, formerly used in the north, ha...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Crop-tailed
·adj Having the tail cropped.
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Dag-tailed
·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks.
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Daggle-tailed
·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.
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Draggle-tailed
·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly.
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Fan-tailed
·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon.
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Fork-tailed
·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed;
— said of many bir...
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Racket-tailed
·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers.
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Rat-tailed
·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat.
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Red-tailed
·adj Having a red tail.
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Ring-tailed
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color.
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Ruby-tailed
·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red.
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Scissors-tailed
·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....
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Spine-tailed
·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips.
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Stiff-tailed
·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.
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Stump-tailed
·adj Having a short, thick tail.
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Swallow-tailed
·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed.
II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...
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Wedge-tailed
·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...
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Wire-tailed
·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...
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culver-tailed
Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder....
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Belaying pin
·- A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are f...
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Breech pin
·- ·Alt. of Breech screw.
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Corking pin
·- A pin of a large size, formerly used attaching a woman's headdress to a cork mold.
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Firing pin
·add. ·- In the breech mechanism of a firearm, the pin which strikes the head of the cartridge and e...
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Pin-eyed
·adj Having the stigma visible at the throad of a gamopetalous corolla, while the stamens are concea...
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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.
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Rolling-pin
·noun A cylindrical piece of wood or other material, with which paste or dough may be rolled out and...
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Crisping-pin
(Isa. 3:22; R.V., "satchel"), some kind of female ornament, probably like the modern reticule. The H...
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pin basket
The youngest child.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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pin money
An allowance settled on a married woman for her pocket expences.
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pin-bush
n.
i.q. Needle-bush (q.v.)
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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linch-pin
the penis of a stag. Shropsh.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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inch-pin
the penis of a stag. Shropsh.
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pin-cod
a pincushion.
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crank-pin
In steam machinery, it goes through both arms of the crank at their extremities; to this pin the con...
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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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safety-pin
To secure the head of the capstan-bar.
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thole-pin
[from the Anglo-Saxon thol]. Certain pins in the gunwale of a boat, instead of the rowlock-poppets, ...
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nail-tailed wallaby
n.
See onychogale.
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stump-tailed lizard
n.
an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray.
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pin-panniebly-fellow
a miserable, covetous, suspicious fellow, one who pins up or fastens his paniers and baskets. N.
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nine-pin block
A block in that form, mostly used for a fair-leader under the cross-pieces of the forecastle and qua...
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