tail

Definitions

• (anatomy) The caudal appendage of an animal that is attached to its posterior and near the anus.
• An object or part of an object resembling a tail in shape, such as the thongs on a cat-o'-nine-tails.
• The back, last, lower, or inferior part of anything.
• The feathers attached to the pygostyle of a bird.
• The tail-end of an object, e.g. the rear of an aircraft's fuselage, containing the tailfin.
• The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• (astronomy) The visible stream of dust and gases blown from a comet by the solar wind.
• The latter part of a time period or event, or (collectively) persons or objects represented in this part.
• (statistics) The part of a distribution most distant from the mode; as, a long tail.
• One who surreptitiously follows another.
• (cricket) The lower order of batsmen in the batting order, usually specialist bowlers.
• (typography) The lower loop of the letters in the Roman alphabet, as in g, q or y.
• (chiefly) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
• (mathematics) All the last terms of a sequence, from some term on.
• (now) The buttocks or backside.
• (slang) The penis of a person or animal.
• (slang) sexual Sexual intercourse.
• (kayaking) The stern; the back of the kayak.
• A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
• (anatomy) The distal tendon of a muscle.
• (entomology) A filamentous projection on the tornal section of each hind wing of certain butterflies.
• A downy or feathery appendage of certain achens, formed of the permanent elongated style.
• (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.
• One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by splitting the bandage one or more times.
• (nautical) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything.
• (music) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly upward or downward from the head; the stem.
• (mining) A tailing.
• (architecture) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part such as a slate or tile.
• (colloquial) A tailcoat.