tail

Etymology 1
From, , , from , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. In some senses, apparently by a generalization of the usual opposition between head and tail.

Noun

 * 1)  The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
 * 2) An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
 * 3) The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
 * 4) The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
 * 5) The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
 * 6) The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
 * 7)  The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
 * 8) The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
 * 9)  The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
 * 10) One who surreptitiously follows another.
 * 11)  The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
 * 12)  The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
 * 13)  The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
 * 14)  All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
 * 15)  The buttocks or backside.
 * 16)  The penis of a person or animal.
 * 17)  Sexual intercourse.
 * 18)  The stern; the back of the kayak.
 * 19) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
 * 20)  The distal tendon of a muscle.
 * 21)  A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
 * 22) A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
 * 23)  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.
 * 24) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
 * 25)  A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
 * 26)  The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
 * 27)  A tailing.
 * 28)  The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
 * 29)  A tailcoat.
 * 1) A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
 * 2)  The distal tendon of a muscle.
 * 3)  A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
 * 4) A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
 * 7)  A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
 * 8)  The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
 * 9)  A tailing.
 * 10)  The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
 * 11)  A tailcoat.
 * 1)  A tailcoat.

Verb

 * 1)  To follow and observe surreptitiously.
 * Tail that car!
 * 1)  To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
 * 2)  To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor.
 * This vessel tails downstream.
 * 1) To follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
 * 2) To pull or draw by the tail.
 * 1) To pull or draw by the tail.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, beschatten
 * Esperanto: gvatsekvi
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: זינב
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: сле́ди
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: sledovať
 * Vietnamese:

Etymology 2
From, probably from a shortened form of entail.

Adjective

 * 1)  Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.
 * estate tail

Noun

 * 1)  Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

Noun

 * 1) shit, dung