(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.

(law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

(law) Limited; abridged; reduced; curtailed.

(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

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.

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

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

plural of tailing

(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.