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▸ noun:  (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
▸ noun:  An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
▸ noun:  The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
▸ noun:  The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
▸ noun:  The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
▸ noun:  The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
▸ noun:  The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
▸ noun:  (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
▸ noun:  One who surreptitiously follows another.
▸ noun:  (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
▸ noun:  (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
▸ noun:  (chiefly in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
▸ noun:  (now colloquial, chiefly US) The buttocks or backside.
▸ noun:  (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
▸ noun:  (slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse.
▸ noun:  (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
▸ noun:  A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
▸ noun:  (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
▸ noun:  (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
▸ noun:  A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
▸ noun:  (surgery) 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.
▸ noun:  One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
▸ noun:  (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
▸ noun:  (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
▸ noun:  (mining) A tailing.
▸ noun:  (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
▸ noun:  (colloquial, dated) A tailcoat.
▸ noun:  (electrical engineering) Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”)
▸ verb:  (transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously.
▸ verb:  (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
▸ verb:  (nautical) To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
▸ verb:  To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
▸ verb:  To pull or draw by the tail.
▸ adjective:  (law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
▸ noun:  (law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.
▸ noun:  (Chinese astronomy) A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.

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