Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subject, to tail; entailed.
- Having a tail; caudate; appendaged; urodele; macrurous: as, the tailed batrachians; the tailed wings of a butterfly.
- In botany, provided with a slender or tail-like appendage of any kind: as, tailed anthers.
- Formed like or into a tail; shaped as a tail: as, tailed appendages; a rat-tailed file.
- In heraldry, having a tail, as a beast or bird used as a bearing: used only when the tail is of a different tincture from the rest: as, a lion sable, tailed gules. Also
queued . [Rare.]
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tail . - adjective in combination having the specified form of
tail - adjective Having a tail.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a tail of a specified kind; often used in combination
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Examples
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The order Ophiomorpha, as has been before observed, present a general resemblance to serpents, and a special resemblance to certain short-tailed ones; though it is rather with the Amphisbenian Sauriansthat they may most advantageously be compared.
The Common Frog 1874
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Armand either got busted by his mommy, or has high-tailed from the spank’n. cei la vie
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But everyone was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, which is always a good sign.
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I will tell you that it dragged in the middle and, for me, really kind of tailed off at the end.
04 « May « 2009 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2009
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I will tell you that it dragged in the middle and, for me, really kind of tailed off at the end.
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The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14.
Archive 2010-01-01 Rus Bowden 2010
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The poem, in Italian, is an extended or "tailed" sonnet, with a coda of six lines appended to the standard 14.
Great Regulars: Michelangelo (1475-1564) himself provides Rus Bowden 2010
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The piece of gray matter that lies highest in the cerebral interior is the caudate nucleus ( "tailed" L, because of its shape).
The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963
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McGuffey "tailed" on to the rope and with raucous cries hauled away.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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Peninsula and the Philippines, and our explorers have failed to obtain any specimens of the "tailed" people in whose existence many of the
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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