present participle of tail

The act of following someone. / (architecture) The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall. / (obsolete) sexual intercourse

(mining) The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing. / (alcohol production) The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.

(transitive, architecture) To fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support.

(Chinese astronomy) A Chinese constellation coinciding with the tail of Scorpius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and the tail of Azure Dragon.

(statistics) Having a fat tail; leptokurtic.

(statistics) Having a heavy tail; leptokurtic.

having a tail marked with differently colored rings / carrying its flexible tail in a circular or spiraling form

Having a long tail (used in the names of various birds and animals).

A one of two species of frogs in the genus Ascaphus, distinctive by virtue of having what looks like a tail.