(slang) Clipping of tailcoat. / The side of a coin that doesn't bear the picture of the head of state or similar. / (mining) Tailings; waste. / (alcohol production) Tailings, feints.

plural of tail

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tail

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

(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.

(transitive) To follow and observe surreptitiously. / (architecture) To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into

(law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

(law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

simple past tense and past participle of tail

(often in combination) Having a tail. / (entomology) Of certain butterflies, having one or more filamentous projections on the tornal section of each hind wing.