Tail is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TAIL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to follow closely, to shadow
• follow and observe (someone) closely, especially in secret
• (of an object in flight) drift or curve in a particular direction
• remove the stalks or ends of (fruit or vegetables) in preparation for cooking.
• pull on the end of (a rope) after it has been wrapped round the drum of a winch a few times, in order to prevent slipping when the winch rotates.
• join (one thing) to another.
• provide with a tail
• To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
• To pull or draw by the tail.
• To hold by the end; -- said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; -- with in or into.
• To swing with the stern in a certain direction; -- said of a vessel at anchor; as, this vessel tails down stream.
• go after with the intent to catch
• remove or shorten the tail of an animal
• remove the stalk of fruits or berries
• follow (someone) secretly
• follow
NOUN:
• the hindmost part of an animal, especially when prolonged beyond the rest of the body, such as the flexible extension of the backbone in a vertebrate, the feathers at the hind end of a bird, or a terminal appendage in an insect
• a slender backward prolongation of each hindwing in some butterflies.
• the rear part of an aeroplane, with the tailplane and rudder
• the lower or hanging part of a garment, especially the back of a shirt or coat
• the luminous trail of particles following a comet.
• the lower end of a pool or stream
• the exposed end of a slate or tile in a roof
• an extremity of a curve approaching the horizontal axis of a graph, especially that of a frequency distribution.
• the end of a long train or line of people or vehicles
• the final, more distant, or weaker part of something
• the end of the batting order, with the weakest batsmen
• a person secretly following another to observe their movements
• women collectively regarded in sexual terms
• the side of a coin without the image of a head on it (used when tossing a coin to determine a winner)
• limitation of ownership, especially of an estate or title limited to a person and their direct descendants
• Limitation; abridgment.
• The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior appendage of an animal.
• Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles, in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
• Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior part.
• A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• 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.
• The distal tendon of a muscle.
• A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes. It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
• 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.
• A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• Same as Tailing, 4.
• The bottom or lower portion of a member or part, as a slate or tile.
• See Tailing, n., 5.
• the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body
• the time of the last part of something
• any projection that resembles the tail of an animal
• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements
• (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person\'s head
• the rear part of an aircraft
• the rear part of a ship
• a thing resembling an animal's tail in its shape or position, typically extending downwards or outwards at the end of something
• a tailcoat, or a man's formal evening suit with a tailcoat
• a person's buttocks
• a woman's genitals.
• rear part of an animal's body, usu forming a flexible appendage
ADJECTIVE:
• Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed; as, estate tail.
• at the rear
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to provide with a tail (a hindmost part)
• rear part of an animal\'s body, usu forming a flexible appendage

Words related to TAIL

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Words that contain TAIL

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How to use TAIL in a sentence

• But with him, too, the tail is the sheet-anchor, by which he can hold on, and bring all his four feet to bear on his food.
• Please, sir, it goes round and round without a tail, and comes down.
• Ann had added to his costume by the loan of her blue hair-ribbon which she had tied in a nice bow on the tip of his tail.
• Then, as we sat our horses head to tail, he threw his left arm across me with his hand upon my shoulder.
• He supposed that the ship must feel the influence of the tides, so near the land, and was afraid she might tail the other way, and thus be brought again over the reef.
• I have dropped a figure on the route, somewhere, and my account is without head or tail.
• True enough, there was no tail in evidence, as the elephant seemed to be headed straight towards them.
• One of the donkeys tossed its head, and the squirrel was gone with a flirt of its tail.
• At first the tiger was master, for the alligator could not bring his huge jaws into action, and while lashing viciously at the tiger with his tail, he was dragged into the jungle.
• Baby looked pleased at this announcement, but waved her tail wildly.
• As he entered, one of them had evidently caught hold of his new tail, and the pack had torn it in shreds.
• Watching his chance, Snap put his foot on the tail of the water snake.
• I would almost as soon believe that the cat curls the end of its tail when preparing to spring, in order to warn the doomed mouse.
• There the monster waxed so large that he wound himself round the whole globe, and that with such ease that he can with his mouth lay hold of his tail.

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