The Meaning of tail

• (n.) Limitation; abridgment.
• (a.) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
• (n.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
• (n.) Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
• (n.) Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
• (n.) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• (n.) The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head, effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the expression \"heads or tails,\" employed when a coin is thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its fall.
• (n.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• (n.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
• (n.) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end, which does not go through the whole thickness of the skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; -- called also tailing.
• (n.) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• (n.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• (n.) Same as Tailing, 4.
• (n.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
• (n.) See Tailing, n., 5.
• (v. t.) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• (v. t.) To pull or draw by the tail.
• (v. i.) To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
• (v. i.) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.

Synonyms

fag end , tail end , tail end , buttocks , nates , arse , butt , backside , bum , buns , can , fundament , hindquarters , hind end , keister , posterior , prat , rear , rear end , rump , stern , seat , tail end , tooshie , tush , bottom , behind , derriere , fanny , ass , shadow , shadower , tail assembly , empennage , stern , after part , quarter , poop , chase , chase after , trail , tag , give chase , dog , go after , track , dock , bob

Antonyms

head

Homophones

taille , tale

Rhymes

abigail , ail , airedale , airmail , ale , amell , ancell , assail , avail , avenell , averell , avondale , bail , baile , bale , balle , barksdale , barrell , bartell , bayle , beyl , blackmail , bloomingdale , borrell , brail , braille , cail , cale , carbondale , cardell , carrell , cartmell , carvell , clydesdale , coattail , cocktail , correll , countervail , coverdale , curtail , dail , daile , dale , dayle , derail , detail , deverell , doornail , dovetail , downscale , drail , dralle , email , entail , exhale , fail , faile , faille , fairytale , fantail , farmingdale , farthingale , female , ferndale , fingernail , flail , folktale , foxtail , frail , gael , gail , gaile , gale , galle , garrell , gayle , glendale , gorrell , grail , guardrail , hail , haile , hale , handrail , heyl , hillsdale , hobnail , horsetail , impale , inhale , jail , jamail , jarrell , jerrell , kail , kale , kvale , lail , lavell , levell , macphail , mail , maile , maille , male , marcell , martingale , mayle , mcgrail , mchale , mikhail , modell , monorail , mortell , nadell , nail , naill , nale , nathanael , oakdale , orrell , pail , pale , parcell , perrell , ponytail , pralle , presale , prevail , quail , quale , quayle , quesnell , radell , rael , rafale , rail , raile , rayl , resale , retail , revell , riverdale , sail , sale , salle , savell , sayle , scale , scarsdale , schmale , scottsdale , shale , smail , smale , snail , soleil , spale , springdale , stale , sumrell , sunnyvale , swale , taille , tale , teasdale , telltale , thumbnail , toenail , trail , tramell , travail , uniondale , unveil , upscale , vail , vaile , vale , valle , veil , verrell , wail , wale , weyl , whale , wholesale , withnail , yale , zale