(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) 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

(law) Limitation of inheritance to certain heirs.

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

simple past tense and past participle of tail

(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.

(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.

plural of tailing