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tailing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tail \Tail\, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel. tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.]
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(Zo["o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of movable vertebr[ae], and is covered with flesh and hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body. The tail of existing birds consists of several more or less consolidated vertebr[ae] which supports a fanlike group of quills to which the term tail is more particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
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Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.
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Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
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A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
``Ah,'' said he, ``if you saw but the chief with his tail on.''
--Sir W. Scott. 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.
(Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
(Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
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(Surg.)
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.
One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
(Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
(Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).pl. Same as Tailing, 4.
(Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
pl. (Mining) See Tailing, n., 5.
(Astronomy) the long visible stream of gases, ions, or dust particles extending from the head of a comet in the direction opposite to the sun.
pl. (Rope Making) In some forms of rope-laying machine, pieces of rope attached to the iron bar passing through the grooven wooden top containing the strands, for wrapping around the rope to be laid.
pl. A tailed coat; a tail coat. [Colloq. or Dial.]
(A["e]ronautics) In airplanes, an airfoil or group of airfoils used at the rear to confer stability.
the buttocks. [slang or vulgar]
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sexual intercourse, or a woman used for sexual intercourse; as, to get some tail; to find a piece of tail. See also tailing[3]. [slang and vulgar]
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
Tail coverts (Zo["o]l.), the feathers which cover the bases of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those below, the under tail coverts.
Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end of a contest. [Colloq.]
Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and usually in a direction opposite to the sun.
Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the wind has greatly abated.
--Totten.Tail of a lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance into the lower pond.
Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.
Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning lathe; -- called also dead spindle.
To turn tail, to run away; to flee.
Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out another way; but all was to return in a higher pitch.
--Sir P. Sidney.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of following someone. 2 (context architecture English) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. 3 (context obsolete English) sexual intercourse 4 (context obsolete English) The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed by threshing and winnowing; chaff. 5 A prolongation of current in a telegraph line, due to capacity in the line and causing signals to run together. vb. (present participle of tail English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tailing may refer to:
- Tailings, the material left over after the extraction of ore from its host material
- Lamb marking, a process applied in sheep husbandry, typically involving removal of a sheep's tail
- Tailgating, driving on a road too closely behind another vehicle
- Surveillance, following someone's movements
Usage examples of "tailing".
McDowells troops would still be tailing along as Bonham crossed Bull Run.
Dirk was so flummoxed to find that he had actually physically hit the person he was supposed to be stealthily tailing that in order to allay any suspicion he jumped onto a passing bus and headed off down Rosebery Avenue.
Now everything was overgrown with brush, and the stream ran clear and clean, undarkened by placer tailings.
CHAPTER VI A RIDE WITH SLUG AT almost the same time that Richard Harrison was so carefully tailing the strange movements of John Shipton, events of an equally sinister character were in the making in a much more respectable section of town.
Leicester had gone through six months of tradecraft training at the Farm with Eric, tailing unsuspecting tourists through the streets of Williamsburg, Virginia.
One hand seemed only just to have dropped a dark red rose, its petals blowsily open and near to tailing, and she was as wet as if she had been out in the storm.
The fuel now entering the hellbox was still from the mined tailings on Nobody Home.
Tailing him was easy because he hunched into the rain with his head down and, except when he crossed Linnaean in front of me to head down Mass.
Sister Mary Philomel alone who thought of pollution, mine tailings, the coal cars that passed endlessly along the tracks beyond the hospital grounds.
You could see the white-and-tan dots here and there where the limpers were tailing away.
He would plant forests and beautiful flower gardens, with livestock on grassy hills rather than smelter smokestacks and mounds of discarded tailings from the mine shafts.
If the manifest of ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would have read something like this: Water, blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt, garlic, ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff, butts of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs, uranium mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate, nitrates, nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powdered pork nose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, used pipe cleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymph nodes, autumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal, fallout, printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotile asbestos, carrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.
The engineer unrolled the plans he carried, spread them on the dusty earth at his feet and anchored the corners with diamondiferous pebbles from Zouga's tailing dump which had spilled into and was threatening to engulf the entire camp.
But when I got back from my call on Sperling on Thursday afternoon Wolfe had already been busy on the phone, getting Saul Panzer and Fred Durkin and Orrie Gather, and when they came to the office Friday morning for briefing Saul was assigned to a survey of Rony's past, after reading Bascom, and Fred and Orrie were given special instructions for fancy tailing.
If theof ingredients on the bottle had been legible, it would havesomething like this:blackstrap molasses, imported habanero peppers, salt,ginger, tomato puree, axle grease, real hickory smoke, snuff,of clove cigarettes, Guinness Stout fermentation dregs,mill tailings, muffler cores, monosodium glutamate,nitrites, nitrotes and nitrutes, nutrites, natrotes, powderednose hairs, dynamite, activated charcoal, match-heads, usedcleaners, tar, nicotine, singlemalt whiskey, smoked beef lymphautumn leaves, red fuming nitric acid, bituminous coal,printer's ink, laundry starch, drain deaner, blue chrysotilecarrageenan, BHA, BHT, and natural flavorings.