Definitions
1.nounThe caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus."Most primates have a tail and fangs."
2.nounAn object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
3.nounThe back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
4.nounThe feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
5.nounThe tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
6.nounThe rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
7.nounThe visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
8.nounThe latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
9.nounThe part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
10.nounOne who surreptitiously follows another.
11.nounThe lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
12.nounThe lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
13.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.
14.nounAll the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
15.nounThe buttocks or backside.
16.nounThe penis of a person or animal.
17.nounSexual intercourse."I'm gonna get me some tail tonight."
18.noun(kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
19.nounA train or company of attendants; a retinue.
20.nounThe distal tendon of a muscle.
21.nounA filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
22.nounA downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
23.nounA 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.nounOne of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
25.nounA rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
26.nounThe part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
27.nounA tailing.
28.nounThe bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
29.nounA tailcoat.
30.verbTo follow and observe surreptitiously."Tail that car!"
31.verbTo hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into
32.verbTo swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor."This vessel tails downstream."
33.verbTo follow or hang to, like a tail; to be attached closely to, as that which can not be evaded.
34.verbTo pull or draw by the tail.